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Garrison Creek is smack in the middle of town, btw (as are maybe a dozen more creeks). And then after coming upon a pond (right next to busy Ninth Avenue), half a dozen black ducks (there was an explainer in a recent local newspaper article about these unusual Peking and Mallard hybrids) swam directly up to me, jumped ashore, waited not more than three or four feet away, then apparently realizing that food would not be forthcoming, trotted back into the water.
