Pair of mallard ducks resting and feeding on big detention pond on March 10, 2008, and flying north and west on March 12, 2008, where Hill Place student apartments now stand near intersection of Hill Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

Top two photos of mallards on big detention pond that has now become only a short-term detention pond in the middle of the Hill Place apartments.

Please click on images below to ENLARGE view of two mallards after being flushed off small detention pond on failed Aspen Ridge Town House development on March 12, 2008.