Leucistic Robin and Dead Ducks

Walked through the SW Gate this afternoon at 4. Cloudy quiet, cool (~50F) overcast. Cold front coming.. twenty degrees cooler tomorrow. Found a leucistic robin with odd coloration: mottled.. half white, half brown, tail almost completely black and brown with one splotch of white. Eye was black, beak was bright yellow orange, breast was mostly normal russet red with some white mottling. Head of bird was striking .. coloration at first glance almost like a white pigeon. I watched for 5-10 minutes before it flew. It flew with a large flock of 30-40 robins. Hundreds of robins foraging in the leaf litter or overhead in the canopy.

South service road crossing culvert 10 meters east of the extension cord from the blower building there were three ducks dead and left in the weeds. One female mallard with no head, one smaller wood duck, and one other mallard(?). All were not stiff.. and not eaten by predators.

Observed one squirrel dash up a large cottonwood.. and two or more deer escaping north into the Woods just north of the new trash station.

The path along the south border trail looks to have been cleared and swept clean of leaves in a path about a meter wide. The earlier human soiling was largely gone.. at least the most evident. Still some of that left on top of the Dune trail off to side.