Hi Mark It's been around a while- I think it has been mostly described as a domestic mallard/cross perhaps. I believe it has a normal rather than red eye. I'm sure others will chime in.... Cynthia Crawford *Creature Kinships and Natural Affinities* Animal and Nature Paintings, Portraits and Prints NEW WEB SITE: www.creaturekinships.net www.creaturekinships.com MORE PHOTOS and ARTWORK: http://pbase.com/creaturekinships EVEN MORE PHOTOS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33836164@N03/ Castle & Court Music for Harp: http://galleries.creaturekinships.com/?page_id=59 BLOG: http://creature-kinships.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 7:57 PM Mark Council <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ahoy birdpeoples- > Driving up route 5 from Norwich this afternoon I saw a group of maybe 20 > or so mallards near the steel RR bridge in Pompy Flats, and among them was > a white duck, and appeared to be the same size as the mallards so not a > domestic bird gone wild. I couldn’t stop to take a closer look, which is > just as well since I didn’t have my binocs with me. Has anyone else seen > this bird and gotten a better I.D.? > -- > It's not by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is > actually an empty hole through which the world becomes known to us. > Likewise, in a spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we > see everything. It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil, > for it is only when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that we > become truly teachable. -Mark Nepo > > To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set > your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the > list owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe: > E-mail this command to [log in to unmask] UNSUBSCRIBE > UV-Birders To change your e-mail address: E-mail this command from your old > address to: [log in to unmask] CHANGE UV-Birders [new e-mail > address] > > Web based archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html > To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe: E-mail this command to [log in to unmask] UNSUBSCRIBE UV-Birders To change your e-mail address: E-mail this command from your old address to: [log in to unmask] CHANGE UV-Birders [new e-mail address] Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html