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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ovenbird43" data-source="post: 1306703" data-attributes="member: 64478"><p>I live in an apartment that has a small pond with a bunch of domestic mallards and one goose, and oddly enough the mallards won't touch bread.  I remember as a kid, feeding stale bread to the ducks was the thing to do... so now my boyfriend throws our stale bread and whatever else in the shrubs in the backyard, where I suspect it's the local opposums that eat it rather than the cardinals.  Though we do have a small group of House Sparrows that hang around.</p></blockquote><p></p>