It's that time again. I made this comic a few years ago, and now I hear people using the phrase "weird duck time" without knowing where it came from, which makes me happy beyond words. Here's to the season of spectacular ducks 🪶
Not a duck but people think they are. the double crested cormorant is a funky guy who winters in extremely high numbers where I live. Winter birds are always fun to see come in. When I first saw the comic It felt really fitting for the cormorants.
They like to pop up at you out of the water. the ones here aren’t afraid of people. The fishermen throw them fish they can’t keep, but they’re still very polite.
Oh I assumed the art was correct, nature is a weird little gal, who makes plumage and wings and things look like faces because, why not, confuse and terrify the odd little upright apes
Seeing this comic and then being really confused made me realize just how far north I am relative to a lot of people...summer is brilliantly weird duck time in Saskatchewan, winter is just owls, ravens, magpies, and VERY angry chickadees
So far the ducks I've seen on this side of the SF Bay have only been mallards and what the nature center sign said are pintails, but it's possible we get other weird ducks.
We also get black coots, which are not-quite-ducks.
Did you know that in the Netherlands there is a rightwing, Putin loving, reporter that calls himself a "journalist" actually called Weird Duk. Don't believe me?
nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wierd_Duk
Thanks a lot for the earworm🙄. I only recently managed to exorcize Seasons of Love, and now I'm stuck with Seasons of Ducks which is even catchier because birds! 😱