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Related: About this forumPosh Mallard duckling one of seven recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof, NYC
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''This Mallard duckling is one of seven that recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof and were brought to Central Park's Conservatory Water, where they now swim with their parents and will spend many weeks growing up.
8:34 PM · Apr 18, 2024''
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Posh Mallard duckling one of seven recently hatched on a nearby Park Avenue roof, NYC (Original Post)
Donkees
Apr 2024
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Skittles
(159,389 posts)1. AWWWWWWW
SO FLOOFY
Aussie105
(6,283 posts)2. It's magic!
From a little disc of genetic material sitting on top of egg yolk mass inside an ocean of egg white, it develops slowly into this majestic creature.
Either magic or a miracle, and I don't believe in miracles.
Donkees
(32,404 posts)3. ''A silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave-forms and resonances absolutely individual and unique ...
which connects us to everything in the universe - a living Void which gives birth to all forms in the phenomenal world''
ShazzieB
(18,704 posts)4. Sweet!
I hardly ever see mallard ducks anymore, and I miss them. Such cute ducklings!