riceyummm

Thanks for all the helpful answers gentlemen, even the unnecessarily obnoxious one.

I figure this is the place to ask this question. A couple of years ago I was watching a flock of ducks in a little pond, the pond was surrounded by a short fence and I asked my wife why the ducks didn't just fly away. She looked at me like I was crazy and said "Ducks can't fly". As a lifelong waterfowl hunter I could have made a case for flying ducks. Rather than start an extended argument which I knew I would not win I shut up. Can anyone tell me why the local ducks don't just fly away?