Pink Eared Ducks

In flat coastal shallow lakes them sometimes you will see Wild ducks not familiar to many and not familiar to me With fleshy lobes under bill and pink around ears and overall brown mottled gray Birds i know of and have seen but do not see every day To be different in their looks and on their ways to others their main claim to fame Pink eared ducks for them is their common name Not trusting of humans and in their ways quite shy At the approach of an animal or person they are quick to fly On nest of down in log stump or bush over water the female bird lay Five to eight eggs white to a pale gray Their nesting sites they are quite good to disguise Always well hidden from predators eyes Though so little about them i can claim to know My wonder of them only does seem to grow Nomadic in their ways they do move around But on lakes where they are seen in large numbers they often abound Once seen them you never again could get wrong To the dabbling duck family they do belong Pretty to look at and nomadic in their way For long periods in any one place they do not stay.