05x05 - The Runaway Duck

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Today I'm on the chesapeake bay.

With these binoculars,

I can see all kinds
of ducks and geese--

Mallards, widgeons,
emperors.

They're all birds,
but they're special ones

Called waterfowl.

They can fly and swim.

Every fall, they leave
their homes up north

And wing their way south
to spend the winter here.

I think I hear some early birds
arriving now.

Today we're on
a wild goose chase.

Let's go.

See that grass
growing over there?

Ducks and geese
just love it.

It's the best place for them
to find dinner

And a perfect place
for an afternoon nap.

There's nothing like
a paddle in a pond

For a lady goose
or a gander.

I love boating
on the chesapeake.

And with the motor off,

You can almost hear
the wind blow.

Listen.

It sounds like those birds
have their own motor.

They're headed
in our direction.

Let's take
a closer look.

I think I know just
the person who can help.

Hi, levar!

Hi, vidal.

How you doing?

Good.

Let me take that line.

You got it?

Got it.

What a ride!

See a lot of ducks
and geese?

I saw everything.

How you doing today?

Pretty good.

This is vidal martinez.

He works here

At the blackwater national
wildlife refuge.

Ducks and geese come here
during the winter.

Can we see a duck
up close?

Sure can.

First we have to
put our hip boots on.

I'm ready.

Give me a hand.

I'm trying.

This mud is
really deep here.

Ducks love it here.

This is
a perfect place
for them.

This is
a duck trap.

This is the opening.

The duck swims in here?

Right. They get inside
and get confused.

They don't know
how to get out.

It doesn't hurt them.

The way we attract them
is with corn.

You use the corn
for bait.

Ahh.

Ducks love corn.

You just
throw it in?

You throw it in
like that.

Then we wait patiently
and hide from them.

Where?

In a duck blind.

What's a duck blind?

Let's go discover one.

Come on.

Aah!

This is a duck blind?

Right.
This tent blends in
with the bushes.

The ducks don't know
we're here.

It's like playing
hide-and-seek.

What do we do now?

Wait here
for the ducks.

While we're waiting
for some waterfowl

To waddle our way,

Let's look at this book.

It's called
the runaway duck.

It's a tale
about an odd little duck

Ú
with some
pretty weird luck.

One morning,

Sebastian willowfrost was
playing in the garage.

He was rolling egbert,
his favorite toy,

Around on the floor.

Egbert was a carved
wooden duck with wheels

And a long nylon string
for pulling.

One wheel had a plaque

On which sebastian
had written his name.

Suddenly sebastian's father
called him in for lunch.

"Just a minute!"

Sebastian tied egbert to
the bumper of his father's car

So that he couldn't
roll away.

Sebastian's father
ate quickly.

He was going
on a long business trip.

Sebastian forgot
that egbert was tied

To the bumper
of his father's car.

By the time
sebastian remembered,

Egbert was doing


Down route 95.

Racing around
a sharp mountain turn,

Egbert's tie string broke.

Egbert sailed off
into empty space.

For 10 seconds, egbert flew
like a real duck,

But then he fell...

Down...down...down...

Into emerald valley.

Luckily, egbert fell
into a stream,

Where the force of the water
carried him.

Egbert rolled and floated on
past bottleburg,

Carburg, and burgerburg,

Out into the sea.

Meanwhile, sebastian prayed
that egbert was safe,

And that he might return.

He wrote several poems
in egbert's memory

And tried to forget
the tragedy

By playing baseball.

One night in early september,

Egbert was att*cked
by a shark.

The shark pulled eggbert
down into the ocean.

He bit off
one of egbert's wheels,

Discovered it was wood,

And swam away in disgust.

Egbert floated up
past a clown fish,

A sea turtle,

And a puff fish.

The wheel floated up alone.

After some time,

A wave tossed egbert
onto an almost deserted isle.

Voila! Un canard!

"Whoopee! A duck!"

Cried jacques devan,

Poet, shipwreck survivor,
and frenchman.

Jacques wrote a long poem
about egbert

Called song to a duck.

"Oh, what luck
to find a duck

"Upon a desert isle.

"He is missing a wheel,
and paint's all peeled,

But, nevertheless,
he smiles."

The next day,

Sailors on a french
merchant vessel

Spotted jacques

And carried him
and egbert to france.

There was much excitement
over the castaways.

The president of france
met the ship at port.

Le monde, an important
french newspaper,

Published a photo
of egbert

And a copy
of jacques' poem.

Sebastian happened to see
egbert's picture

At a local newsstand.

He immediately went home

And wrote a letter
to the president of france.

"Please," he wrote,
"send egbert home."

Jacques was enjoying dinner

When the french president
showed him the letter.

Jacques tossed his napkin down
and stood up.

"But this is my duck,"
jacques cried.

"They are not the same!

They cannot be!"

Jacques went
for a long walk.

The president's daughter
checked to see

Whether sebastian's name was
on egbert's right front wheel.

Unfortunately, this wheel
was now in portugal,

Where a little girl
was wearing it on a necklace.

When he got back to the palace,
jacques announced,

"I will return the duck
this evening by air post."

The president's daughter
kissed jacques on the cheek.

Sebastian received the package
and a letter two weeks later.

Everything seemed perfect.

Sometimes, though,
sebastian tried to imagine

What had happened
to egbert's front wheel.

And far, far away,

A little girl
in portugal wondered

Just who
sebastian willowfrost was.

Levar,
we got our mallard.

Egbert traveled
all over the country.

Actually,
all over the world.

How far has
this duck come?

They can travel


What's the difference
between ducks and geese?

For one thing, the color.

The canada goose has white
patch markings on its face,

Longer neck.

They're larger
than ducks

And make
different sounds, too.

This mallard duck
has a green head?

Right.

He's got a white band
around his neck.

A collar.

His body is
mostly brown and gray.

These are
a mallard duck's markings.

Notice the feet.

I've always heard about
ducks' famous webbed feet.

That helps them
go through water
very quickly.

Like humans
wearing swim fins.

Notice, also,
how long that wing is.

The longer feathers

Helps the bird
get out of the water
quickly.

That's what makes
waterfowl so special.

They can fly
as well as swim.

Look at the shininess
in the feathers.

That's caused
by its natural oils.

It keeps the bird warm.

It makes them
waterproof, too, huh?

Yes. Water there
just drops right off.

Look at the bill.

See the bill?
You can look underneath.

It has like jagged edges.

Right.

That's for filtering out
little microscopic animals

That the duck feeds on.

The water comes out
of the bill.

It eats those
microscopic animals.

So it's
a filtering system.

Exactly. Now I'll
release this duck.

Thanks, vidal,
for spending time
with us today.

My pleasure.

So long.

Boy, I wish I could
speak their language.

How would you talk
to a duck?

Would you quack? Honk?

How would you
call a duck?

I'd say quack! Quack!

Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!

Quack! Quack!

I would pretend
I was its father

And say, "quack! Quack!
Quack! Quack! Quack!"

I would make
a trail of macaroni.

The duck would eat it

And follow the path
that comes up to me.

Quack!
Quack!

Quack!
Quack!

Quack! Quack!

Venga aqui.

Venga aqui, patito.

Duck, you have to
come here!

If that doesn't work,

Then here's
what the pros use--

A duck call
made out of wood.

It's played
like a musical instrument.

[Duck calls]

Here on the chesapeake,

Lots of people spend time
calling, studying,

Or just watching ducks.

But some people
like ed and esther burns

Have a craftier way
of enjoying them.

It may start
as a block of wood,

But through their artistry,

They bring
their love of birds to life.

Since living
in chesapeake,

They have watched
ducks and other birds

Feed on the corn
in their back yard.

For the past 20 years,
they've teamed up

To create exact models
of these birds.

Like the looks
of this pintail?

Very nice.

Maybe we should use this
for our next project.

This may look like
a block of wood to you,

But to us,
it's a duck.

This is where the duck
really starts to take shape.

We take this spokeshave
and round out the body.

We're going to use
the Kn*fe

To outline
these pencil marks

Of the side feathers
and the wings.

We're carving with basswood

Because it's such
a great wood to work with.

Ok.

With the burning pen,

We burn in all the detail
of the feather.

We burn in the quill,

And we burn in
the barbs.

It makes it look real.

There you are, honey.

Thank you.

I really enjoy painting
a pintail duck.

It has nice feathers
on the back,

And it has
a pretty tail.

The first thing
I'm going to do

Is to put
a base coat on it.

I'm using black and white

And burnt umber

And burnt sienna.

I like to paint
different ducks

Because each duck
has different kinds of feathers.

It has different colors.

I use this special pen

To draw these very fine lines
on the side of the duck.

It's amazing
how a block of wood

Can take on
a life of its own.

But a lot of things
come to life

Once the imagination
starts clicking,

Like a favorite
book or toy.

Right, egbert?

So if you liked
the runaway duck,

Then here are
some other books

That are just ducky.

But don't
take my word for it!

I'm kareem.

Have you ever thought about
having a very unusual pet?

Not a dog, cat,
or even a parakeet.

How about a duck?

This book is about
a boy named jason

Who has a duck
as a pet.

It's called dabble duck.

Dabble and jason
play together,

Quack at each other,
take walks together.

Jason starts school,
and dabble's left home alone.

But the family
solves the problem

When dabble finds
a friend in the park.

What I really like
about this book

Is that everyone lived
happily ever after.

If you like books
with happy endings

And funny pictures,

Get dabble duck.

My name is d@ielle.

Have you ever found something
that didn't belong to you

And wanted to keep it?

This happens to jamaica
in jamaica's find.

Jamaica goes to the park.

She finds a hat
and a stuffed doggie

Under the slide.

She brings the hat
to the lost and found,

But she doesn't want
to give up the doggie.

You'll like this story

If you ever lost
something you love.

Jamaica learns
an important lesson

About losing things
and finding them again.

I won't tell you
the story's end.

You read this book.

By the way,
is anybody missing this duckie?

My name is gladys perez.

Have you ever been
lost or separated

From your family?

It's pretty scary.

That happens to a duckling

In this book,
the story about ping.

Ping lives in china
with his mother, father,


And 42 cousins.

One day, ping was fishing
upside-down

With his head in the water.

He didn't hear
his master calling,

"La la la li,"

To come back to the boat.

Ping is left behind.

Ping had lots of adventures
while he was lost,

But, finally, he found
his family and his home.

Once I got lost,
and, just like ping,

I was really glad
to see my family again.

I want you
to read this book.

Find it
at your public library.

I'm sure these ducks
and geese

Will have a great
winter vacation

On the chesapeake.

When spring rolls around,

They'll head north
where they came from.

If you've ever
been away from home,

You know how good it feels
to get back.

There's no place like home.

Just ask egbert.

I'll see you next time.

Today's reading rainbow books
are

The runaway duck
by david lyon,

Published by
lothrop, lee, & shepard books.

Dabble duck
by anne leo ellis,

Illustrated by sue truesdell,

Published by harper & row.

Jamaica's find
by juanita havill,

Illustrations
by anne sibley o'brien,

Published by
houghton mifflin company.

The story about ping

By marjorie flack
and kurt wiese,

Published by viking kestrel.