The Press-Citizen's spotlighting the renegade ducks in Coralville's S.T. Morrison Park. The city is considering measures ranging from planting "unpalatable" grass to enacting a no-feed policy to discourage the ducks from returning after they round a bunch of them up for relocation. Discussing the no-feed possibilities, Parks and Rec Director Terry Trueblood said: "It's great fun for the kids, but I wonder how they cope with all this," he said, referring to the degraded landscape around the pond in S.T. Morrison Park."



I remember back in college, a friend who didn't know any better took a Pagliai's pizza down by the Iowa River to eat it. She ended up abandoning it to the hundreds of ducks that instantly swarmed her. I also remember taking a friend's five-year-old kid out to feed the ducks by the Union a few years ago. I had to stand very close to her to make sure the ducks didn't mug her and take the whole loaf. She quickly learned to throw the bread rather than try to hand it out.