To the seasons of life
Mallard ducks are the most prevalent around our place, our neck of the woods here in Merritt, British Columbia. We love our Mallard ducks.
The local naturalist club will begin their regular weekend fall and winter schedule on the 18th. Their meetings are generally most months on the third Thursday at 7:00 at the Nicola Valley institute of technology, top of the hill Belshaw Avenue in Merritt.
Today is national Donald duck day in the USA. It is that way because Donald Duck was born ( so to speak ) on June 9th 1934. The cartoon character like others of Cartoonist and Entrepreneur. Walt Disney the silly duck cartoons brought a lot of relief to many people during the tough times of the 1930s.
A national day of mourning for slayed US president John f Kennedy is declared by the US government.
A new brood of ducklings
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This new born brood of ducklings seemed unconcerned with sand bagging and took to the water just like ducks would.
On this Day: May 18th 2005
A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has more two moons.
These creatures were at the Highway 8 bridge on Nicola Avenue , Sunday,few skaters among them.
The ducks came to me as if to want to be fed….
Editors Note: the Nicola Naturalists are having their regular monthly meeting on Thursday. The group did a Christmas bird Count in December and their is likely to be a report….
On this Day: January 18th 1670
Henry Morgan captures Panama.
Ducks on Nicola river, which way is south?
The cold is back this week with temperatures dropping unofficially to near minus 20 celsius. There is little snow on the ground and we expect that frost is building in the ground. The Nicola river that flows through town is building ice seemingly without concern by ducks that remain here.
Today in history: February 5th 1919
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, DW Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks launch United Artists.
Hey Merit what do you say?
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