1/3: like winter cicadas

Yesterday I mentioned that I had seen more ducks flying than ever before. Well, today topped yesterday. There have been thousands of ducks in the sky. We've been watching them during mealtimes from our table, looking out over the fields. Then early this evening we walked down the hill to get our mail, and what excellent timing: hundreds and hundreds of ducks were passing overhead! They made a cheeping, peeping sound rather than a quacking one.