(Ed.'s Note: Just as the cold front swept in to Brownsville, one of out thousands of readers said that he heard a flapping in the air and saw two ducks (on top of the tree above) looking for a place to weather the onslaught of rain and cold wind. They alighted on the palo blanco on the 12th Street side of the Masonic Temple catty (kitty?) corner from the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. Now, we have heard of wood ducks who are born and raised on tress (as in the Fulda, MN. Wood Ducks), but locally they usually live in the water and in the banks of resacas. The folks over in Minnesota even have a Fulda Wood Duck Festival each June.
Our reader took this photo and others and sent it in to prove it was true. Perhaps local ducks don't live in the trees, but an aberrant weather episode like the unexpected April cold front makes animals (and people) do strange things. Our thanks for the photo.)
