After a catered lunch, I found myself left with quite a bit of leftover bread and decided I'd feed the ducks. The building I work in is next to a "lake" that is part of a "creek" in an arboretum (the arboretum is a true one and requires no quotes, written or demonstrated around your head). I wondered if it was ok to feed the ducks, though, but had never seen any signs and had witnessed other people doing so (not always a really good indicator of how things should be, of course).

As I walked down to the "lake," I spied a group of ducks and geese and decided to fling a piece of bread into the middle of them to watch the initial reaction of fear followed by the melee to retrieve the bread. I side-armed the hunk of bread but before reaching them, it hit a sign and fell to the ground, not even drawing their attention. As I walked up to get the bread, I read the sign that stated, "Do not feed the ducks. It encourages them to stay and not migrate and the area is overpopulated as it is." I think it also mentioned that we shouldn't encourage the vagrants and something else about pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

So I threw the food away.

Ferrick