The Birds and the Bees

The Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN has a time honored tradition involving ducks. Everyday at 11:00 am several ducks are escorted down the elevator from their 11th floor penthouse home. The elevator doors open and the ducks waddle down a short red carpet and hop into the lobby fountain and swim happily until 5:00 pm when they reverse their route and head back upstairs.

We arrived about 10:45 am on Wednesday to see the show as did about 100 other tourists. 11:00 came, the elevator doors opened, cameras were poised and out the cute little guys cames. The three of them waddled quickly to the fountain and jumped in.

If only I'd had my video camera filming what happened next. Apparently the mallard duck has been harboring "special" feelings for one of his fellow ducks. If you look closely at the photo, particularly under the mallard's beak, you'll see what was on his mind as soon as his webbed feet hit the water..... Needless to say, all the children surrounding the fountain thought they were "fighting" and laughed and laughed and laughed!

OK kids, that concludes our lesson on sex education.