The Northern Ohio New Year's Day gathering...

Jan 01, 2010 20:11





You may have seen this view here before. In summer, there's a tall fountain there in the middle of Coe Lake, but prior to the onset of winter, the town installs three underwater "bubblers" which run 24/7 throughout the winter, to keep three large areas of open water for the ducks that stay here all year round. Each area is about 100 feet across, and in bitterly cold weather, there may be several hundred ducks huddled around the edges with their bills tucked under their wings. Today it snowed all day and was about 20F / -7C, and they seemed quite happy, waddling around on the ice and quacking loudly. Their quacking is at least as loud as medium sized dogs, and can be heard all over this end of town.

winter, ducks, ohio, new year, snow, bird

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