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Well, they were matzohs, actually, and yeah, I think I'm one of the few people who actually *like* them.

Whenever I feed 'em to the geese and dux, I end up eating probably ¼ of them, sometimes to just "nom! nom! nom!" in front of the dux to lure them in closer, but hey, they actually are kinda tasty.

And bread, you gotta smoosh into a ball to get any kind of distance throwing them to the dux way far out, and then they just *sink* anyway (the bread, not the dux), so it's wasted effort. But you can fling pieces of matzoh pretty far out frisbee-style, and the dux then come in closer and peck at the pieces.

You can see the smaller pieces floating on the water in the pic (and some bubbles, too), that's how small the critter was. First time *ever* I saw a Sneaky Turtle™ come in this close to shore, just a few feet away.

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Sure, go for it. Link away... :D

Small critter, couldn't see any shell as he/they all stayed submerged, but his head was about as big as my thumb, with just the tip sticking out of the water.

300mm zoom, the critter being only a few feet away, and some judicious cropping to "zoom in" further, is why the critter *looks* fairly big.

I just wanted to see more detail of the critter himself, vs a teeny nondescript turtle-face poking out of the water and lots of junk floating around. :D

You can also sort of judge his size by the matzoh-bits and the bubbles floating on the surface.

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They *are* kinda funny, in their own sneaky way.

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What's funny(?) is that I've *never* seen them come this close. Even when they *see* dux and geese eating close to shore, they still float way out there and won't come in.

I guess maybe this one just happened to be in the area, had some eats, and didn't see enough "danger" to get farther away. :D

There *are* quite a few of them there, but the only time you ever see them is when they poke their faces up from the water, or climb out on one of the "islands" way out and sun themselves.

I'm still amazed at what's out there in the murky waters. Just t'other day I heard thrashing off to the left, and saw a big honkin' fish the size of my forearm, big and fiery orange-red like an overgrown goldfish.

How or *why* he was thrashing away, I have no idea. No birds in the area, certainly none big enough that could try to stuff *that* fish into its mouth, so why?, I have no idea.

I always just thought that aside from the geese that haunted the area, the pond(?) was just dead water.