Delta The Duck Who Was Afraid Of Water

Delta the Duck was a fabulously beautiful little female mallard duckling. She was hatched in the beautiful lake regions of southern Canada. She was an intelligent and inquisitive duckling, greatly admired by family and friends alike. Delta and her brother Dudley loved the cool, refreshing waters of Shimmering Looney Lake, where they made their summer home at the northern tip of the Mississippi Flyway. All was peaceful and serene in Delta's life until one day on a glorious spring morning when she felt something brush against her foot while taking a casual swim. Startled, yet still confident, she saw nothing in the water. Then, when something brushed against her other foot, Delta became quite alarmed! From that day forward, Delta developed a great fear of water and refused to have anything to do with it. Read how she bravely confronted the uncommon fear of aqua phobia and how she was able to ultimately overcome it. Learn about her species "anas platyrhynchos". Discover why ducks always fly in the V-formation. Then sing her favorite song, "Up in the Sky".

For Bill Burkett, life has been an extended series of duck hunts. Here are his personal diaries that describe memorable hunts along with the high points of his journalistic career. Any hunter will identify and find these tales as exhilarating as taking down that first bluebill, canvasback, or greenwing teal.

is a story about a duck cabin on Alaska's Copper River Delta—and much more! In 1959 the Shellhorns built their place on Pete Dahl Slough, one of many intertidal waterways that braid the 50 mile marshland formed by the Copper. This wetland is a natural breeding habitat for waterfowl, and also a stopping place for migratory birds. Time and Tide Adventures on Alaska's Copper River Delta While early explorers and prospectors traversed the region, it was salmon that first drew pioneers to the outer edges of the Delta, where fishermen built camps to operate set net sites. Soon the famous Copper River and Northwestern Railroad would follow. Here is a chronicle of the early days of the Delta, beginning with Lt. Henry Allen's amazing expedition up the Copper in 1885, as well as a history of fisheries, war, roads, fires, storms, earthquakes, floods, and duck hunting. Plus change of habitat, with moose, bear, and other predators moving out on the Delta as brush and trees exploded following land uplift, and the sloughs gradually silted in. Meet characters such as Long Shorty, Curly Hoover, Kernel Korn, Eyeball Leer, and the Mayor of Pete Dahl, Don Shellhorn. Learn about duck shacks such as the Pair-A-Dice Inn, Boxcar, and Korn Hole, and the rich history hidden in their walls. Delight in the foibles of boating and hunting in the wild weather and water of the Flats. Revel in the Ode to Family and small town Alaska found in countless quotes from the Shellhorn Duck Cabin Logs, 54 years of unique recorded history, written by 458 different visitors. Full of laughter, joy, and tragedy; replete with lessons and truths; ribald and poignant; Time and Tide is the story of an Era of Adventure on the Copper River Delta.