PartridgeWalking

[Mandolin1944]

Pretty amazing! Was this bird perhaps hatched in some farmers chicken shed? When I was a kid in the '50's we would occasionally find abandoned mallard nests -- and we would take the eggs back to the farm on put then under a setting hen -- often they'd hatch and the mallards would spend most of the summer following the hen around the yard and eating chicken feed.  Eventually most would fly away -- but one or two stayed on as a permanent farmhand.