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Dead female Mallard at Lynn



Hi again,

I forgot to mention something sad I saw on the 7th at Lake Lynn in Raleigh.

Mom and I were taking our weekend walk, when I looked down the bank and 
spotted something on top of the ice. I clambered down the bank, and saw that 
it was a dead female Mallard duck.

Her entire body lay on top of the ice, except for the one leg I could see. 
The leg was encased in the ice. She didn't seem to have been attacked or 
bitten or anything, just laying very peacefully on her side.

The only thing I can figure is that she fell asleep and got frozen into the 
lake. How she died, I couldn't say. Maybe froze, or starved, depending on how 
long she was stuck. But I would hope that a passer-by would have helped her 
if they had seen her struggling to get free.

Sometimes Mother Nature is a mean old b****. :-(

Lisa G.
Raleigh, NC