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It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)

It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)

Date2/3/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice; thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is crowded with free-loading ducks. Eight-year-old Wade Kirkpatrick was feeding them yesterday and there were a lot of greedy mouths - or bills. The ducks may not be as comfortable tomorrow: Snow is expected to start in southwest Ontario by this evening and to spread eastward quickly.
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Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
12/13/1971
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
2/27/1974
Waddle you bet? It's thin ice for us - but not for long if this weather continues - at High Park's Grenadier Ponds
Waddle you bet? It's thin ice for us - but not for long if this weather continues - at High Park's Grenadier Ponds
12/7/1976
Fair warning for water fowl. Ducks wintering on Grenadier Pond can ignore the warning sign but you had better not. It got as warm as 11C (52F) yesterd(...)
Fair warning for water fowl. Ducks wintering on Grenadier Pond can ignore the warning sign but you had better not. It got as warm as 11C (52F) yesterd(...)
12/20/1988
Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school
Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school
4/30/1986
Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the Lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)
Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the Lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)
26 May 1977
Cold duck freed from the ice. Rescuing ducks and Canada geese frozen in the ice at the foot of Spadina Ave., Dale Griffin, 22, carries a mallard he ha(...)
Cold duck freed from the ice. Rescuing ducks and Canada geese frozen in the ice at the foot of Spadina Ave., Dale Griffin, 22, carries a mallard he ha(...)
2/4/1976
Ducks on the ice wait hopefully for someone to dig a swimming hole
Ducks on the ice wait hopefully for someone to dig a swimming hole
1/4/1972
A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in P(...)
A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in P(...)
4/28/1987
She can't quack, and she can't eat, but swimming around Grenadier Pond with beverage can pull-ring sealing her beak shut after she pecked at it, Ringo(...)
She can't quack, and she can't eat, but swimming around Grenadier Pond with beverage can pull-ring sealing her beak shut after she pecked at it, Ringo(...)
11/3/1971
Crackers for quackers: Theresa scully, of Ireland, and grand daughter Keelin, 1, feed the ducks at Urban River Circle in Newmarket
Crackers for quackers: Theresa scully, of Ireland, and grand daughter Keelin, 1, feed the ducks at Urban River Circle in Newmarket
10/15/1992
Swans join wild kin. The Swans from Gairloch Gardens in east Oakville have joined the growing number of ducks and Canada geese wintering along Lake On(...)
Swans join wild kin. The Swans from Gairloch Gardens in east Oakville have joined the growing number of ducks and Canada geese wintering along Lake On(...)
2/20/1977