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'Once in a lifetime': Birders flock to South Shore Yacht Club in hopes of seeing rare Mandarin duck

A steady rotation of people flocked to and from South Shore Yacht Club Thursday morning, hoping to see a very rare duck that's been hanging out around there recently.

This Mandarin duck — native to eastern Asia, near China, Japan and the Koreas — was first spotted in Milwaukee on Dec. 28, and has been seen on and off since, according to Ryan Brady, conservation biologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

The bird is unlikely to be of wild origin, and likely escaped somewhere in the state from a zoo or private collection, or is a descendant of one that escaped, Brady said in an email.

Brady described the duck as "handsome" and "very beautiful," and credits that for all of the attention it's been getting here.

The male Mandarin duck is "very ornate" with big orange sail fins on its back, streaked orange cheeks and a small red bill with a white tip, according to eBird's website . Females have narrow white spectacles on a shaggy gray head, bold pale dappled spots along her flanks and a pale bill tip. 

"It's so beautiful I just wanted to come out here and see it," Rick Fare told the Journal Sentinel near the yacht club Thursday. Fare has been birding for 40 years and is a part of the Hoy Audubon Society of Racine.

Ann Soderman, an officer of The Benjamin F. Goss Bird Club in Waukesha, saw a bald eagle, a hooded merganser and dozens of mallards along the lakeshore Thursday morning. But had not spotted the Mandarin duck ... yet.

Members of the bird club she belongs to notify each other of sightings like this one. The Oconomowoc resident said she got an email about the Mandarin duck last week and wanted to check it out.

"I love birding," said Soderman, whose dad was also into birding. "Every time I see them take flight or watch them in their natural habitat, they're so graceful, they're elegant, they're wonderful."

Bob Widor, who's been a birder and photographer for years, was hoping to capture a photo of the special bird Thursday.

"It might be a once-in-a-lifetime-type experience," Widor said.

While he hadn't yet seen the bird when we spoke to him, he planned to search the area for a couple of hours.

"It would be very special to see it," Scott Van Derven of Wauwatosa said along the shore.

How rare is it for a Mandarin duck to be in Wisconsin?

While Mandarin ducks are regularly seen in zoos and private collections, they are occasionally seen elsewhere, like at city parks, farm ponds and other places hosting ducks, Brady said in an email.

Every year, some Mandarin ducks are spotted in Wisconsin, he said. Though, they are not native, wild birds here.

Another recent sighting was in Fond du Lac at the south end of Lake Winnebago around November/December of 2022, Brady said. He said it is possible that the Milwaukee duck could be the same one.

There are feral populations of Mandarin ducks in western Europe, and to a small extent, in California and Florida, according to Brady.

What should you do if you encounter the duck?

"Enjoy the duck from a distance that all the birds present are comfortable with," Brady said.

And, he said to avoid feeding it.

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A mandarin duck, native to East Asia, has been spotted along the shores of Lake Michigan attracting bird enthusiasts and their cameras.

People first started noticing the rare bird at South Shore Yacht Club last month. It was still around Wednesday, hanging with the mallards and geese Midwesterners are more used to seeing.

"You try not to shake when you take pictures. You try to tell yourself 'keep breathing' because it's that exciting," Wild Birds of Wisconsin member Diane Brooks told WISN 12 News.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said the mandarin duck staying along Lake Michigan likely escaped from a zoo or private collection or is a descendant of an escapee.

It's drawing people like Mary Prior, who drove in Wednesday from Dane County to snap some photos.

"I've taken probably 500 shots of him," she said. "It just gets to be a hobby, and you get better at it. You meet a lot of nice people. The birding community is probably the nicest people you'd ever want to meet."

The DNR said the mandarin duck is hardy enough to survive a Wisconsin winter as long as it has access to open water for food.

To avoid scaring off the bird, those WISN 12 News spoke with Wednesday recommend keeping your distance.

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7 responses to mandarin duck at south shore yacht club in milwaukee wisconsin on february 10, 2023.

As per normal, nice photos. I went there 3 days ago. Just Mallards and Geese. Heading back tomorrow.

Beautiful pictures Jim thank you for sharing.

As per normal, really great photos. I went there 3 days ago. Just found Mallards, Red-breasted Mergansers and Geese. I will try for the Duck tomorrow, even though I have numerous photos of it.

As per normal, really great photos. I went there 3 days ago. Only found Mallards, Geese and Red-breasted Mergansers. I will drive back again tomorrow even though I have numerous photos of the Duck.

He appears to be in fine display plumage now. They are such beautiful little ducks.

He’s beautiful. Great picture

As usual, your photos are outstanding. I was down there 3 days ago. Found Mallards, Geese and Red-breasted Mergansers. I will make another trip down to the yacht club. I have numerous photos from before, however it will be nice to see the Duck again.

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Hot nights in Moscow

It's over, folks. I've been managing the Hungry Duck, Moscow's (and maybe the world's) most notorious bar, for over three years. Now I've decided that it's time to close. Anyone starting up a bar or club in mid-1990s Moscow had to be prepared for some delicate bargaining with some pretty scary people. The Hungry Duck was founded by a mixed group of Chechen and Kalmyk businessmen. You don't hear much about Chechen-Kalmyk joint ventures-for good reason: four of those guys are dead now. The last, a Chechen named Roman, died recently. He had just finished three years in jail for murder when he bumped into me and our engineer, Tony Kelly, on the Arbat last September. Immediately, he started threatening me. Tony freaked out and pretended he didn't understand Russian. So one of my Cuban workers translated and told me that I was to meet Roman the next morning at a well-known expat bar, to discuss business, or else he'd kill me. I thought: "Oh, great!" The next morning, I met him-along with a very large contingent of anti-crime special forces who accompanied me-and that settled that. A week later, I asked the special forces guy what happened and he said: "Don't worry about it, Doug, he won't bother you again."

Shortly after that, an expat manager from the bar where we had met told me: "Doug, did you hear the news? Roman's dead."

"What do you mean, he's dead?" I asked.

"Yeah, he had a heart attack."

Tough business. I received about half a dozen death threats myself, some of which went well beyond the threat stage. One night a group of Chechens invited me into their car to discuss business. They were slamming the car door on my leg, trying to pull me in, and it was only with the help of a brave Cuban bartender from the Duck that I clawed my way out of the car, avoiding what probably would have been a one-way trip to a quiet forest on the outskirts of town.

If it wasn't the mafias, it was the cops. I have sat through raids on the club by just about every law-enforcement body in Moscow. During a raid last January, the cops carted off everyone who "looked like" they might be on drugs. How these officers could tell who was and wasn't on drugs, purely by sight, I can't imagine. In this case, everyone was clean. But they still managed to drag 79 of our customers down to the 18th precinct station, some of whom had to wait all night to have a police needle stuck into their vein. During the biggest raid of all, 52 officers from five different law-enforcement agencies smashed their way into the bar. There were grunts in camouflage and ski masks; tax police rifling through the waste baskets; narc dogs sniffing customers' crotches; health officials sniffing the food; and militia men in full infrared night vision gear keeping watch for any snipers on the dance floor.

But despite all the hassles and threats, we did our job of bringing together large numbers of happily inebriated Russian girls and lonely expat men. Others, such as expat women (who couldn't compete with the sensuous dyevushkas dancing on our bar-tops) and some Russian men (who weren't happy to see their girls getting all that hard-currency attention), might not have appreciated us, but the Duck went on doing what it was meant to do: making Moscow a warmer, even a downright hotter place.

A lot of the things which became Hungry Duck trademarks started out as simple adjustments to the small space the club had for people to dance in. The dancing-on-the-bartop began at a Pepsi Foods corporate party shortly after we opened. They'd been drinking, and wanted to dance. Russians are generally less self-conscious than westerners, and my philosophy was to let them do what they wanted to do and see where it went. It was clear that the customers knew exactly how to enjoy themselves if they were given the chance. My only job was to market it.

The Duck tradition of young women dancing on the bartop wearing little or no clothing also started as a practical adjustment to conditions: it was hot as hell in there during the summer, and a few ladies, under the influence of a few beers, took off their shirts for comfort. And because that seemed popular with the customers and comfortable for the dancers, it became a tradition. Looking back, it was all pretty innocent. We never paid anyone to take their clothes off.

Thus, without putting any effort or serious planning into its image, the Duck acquired a reputation as one of the wilder, sexier places in town. Maybe it had something to do with all the people who fell off our second-storey balcony. On one occasion, I walked up to the Duck and saw a girl fall off the balcony on to the concrete below. I ran to help her-one side of her face was raw and bloody-and asked her if she wanted first aid. She came to, stood up, and told me that all she wanted was to get back inside the Duck. She ran back to the entrance.

We had to make adjustments, learning as we went along. Take the matter of security. We started soft, trusting in our customers' finer instincts, with only two discreet guards at the door. But after a few nasty brawls in which beer mugs and bar stools were used like medieval weapons, we had no choice but to hire some serious security-the sort of people who look like they want you to try something. Unfortunately, we found that people who look like that usually are like that: the bouncers kept trying to provoke our customers into doing something stupid, just for the pleasure of beating the shit out of them. Two fights stand out in my mind. Once, 30 separate fights were going on at once in the bar area. Teeth and blood were zipping from one end to the other. Anyone unlucky enough to have been there was happy to crawl away with a few welts or a loose bicuspid.

Another time, a narcotics cop from the 18th precinct, who was notorious for planting drugs on prostitutes in order to force them to give him free sex, went on one of his usual drunken off-duty binges. He was a real pain, always lurking around the Duck. One night, he cased a pair of girls, and dropped a bag of drugs into one's cleavage, then slurred to her that she was under arrest unless... Just then the girls' boyfriends, both big guys, ran up from the bathroom and asked what the hell was going on. The narc repeated the accusation, and was just starting to accuse the boyfriends of being the girls' protection racket when one of them pounced on him, beating him savagely, knocking the cop's eyeball out of its socket. I remember seeing him all bloodied up shortly afterwards, with his eye partially hanging out, and saying to him: "You really look bad." He was eventually transferred out of the 18th, to all the cops' relief.

All that violence wasn't what we had had in mind for the Duck. The Duck was supposed to be about love (or at least sex), not war. We fired the Nazi bouncers and took on more discreet security who, shall we say, pacified the men on a more permanent basis, meaning that by 1998, bar-room brawls were already a thing of the past.

Cops and robbers we could handle. What finally brought down the Duck was the respectable, puritanical elderly folk of Russia: the Soviet people. In May last year the Duma decided that it needed to tour nightclubs throughout Russia, get to know the people at play-that sort of thing. But sometime during their tour of Moscow's nightspots, some of our people's deputies, especially of the Zyuganov persuasion, got more than they could handle. Bare breasts on a 40-foot-tall bronze maiden representing the glory of socialist agriculture was one thing; the live, tender breasts of a Russian girl dancing on the bartop for the benefit of foreigners-that was something else.

So even if certain government types-notably members of Zhirinovsky's party and the labour minister Sergei Kalashnikov-really dug what we were doing, the more virtuous members of the Duma were already preparing to throw a full-blown tantrum on behalf of Soviet morality by the time they filed into the Hungry Duck. That night happened to be one of our infamous Ladies' Nights. The show involved some fairly graphic interaction between Dylan, our Nigerian male stripper, wearing gold spangles and little else, and several female volunteers from the crowd, while the Soviet hymn blasted through the speakers. A bearded 50-year-old former Red director from Chelyabinsk is not likely to be pleased as he watches a pale Russian beauty submit to Dylan's charms. One of the deputies, a communist, is still smarting from that shocker. In a speech to the Duma, he denounced Dylan and the Duck for promoting miscegenation, crying: "If this were Washington, they would hang that negro!" Seeing more than 600 girls-many of them more or less naked-dancing on every available tabletop, counter and chair was simply too much.

At the same time, we started gaining too much attention. Dylan appeared on the television show Pro Eto and the mass-circulation tabloid Speed-INFO, the Russian equivalent of the National Enquirer, ran a huge two-page spread which featured a doctored interview with a non-existent, 14-year-old Russian girl who claimed to have performed oral sex at the Duck, to have been a regular since she was 12, and to have been gang-raped.

As a result, the Duck acquired a formidable new enemy. The club was located in a state-owned building which had been a House of Culture in Soviet times. Famous artists still sit on the board of the building's directorate. The building's current director, a former ballerina named Olga Lepeshinskaya, whose claim to fame is that she used to perform solo for Stalin, began to hear scandalous tales about the Duck and decided to have us expelled. She called a meeting of the building committee, invited me, and tried, in a brittle, patronising way, to explain why the Duck would have to go. Not only did she boast openly of her closeness to Stalin, but after she'd praised the history of the building, she said: "So you see that it is really quite impossible to have a negro dancing with our Russian girls in a club here."

Russia's top artists are untouchable, like ayatollahs. Once she turned against us, we were finished. Soon, every agency with the power to shut down a night club in Moscow (and plenty more without) made a special trip to check us out. All of a sudden, every cop in town was hanging around, waiting to tag somebody for anything at all. The result was 164 criminal complaints against the Duck in three months.

Once there were enough complaints on file, the authorities started pushing us to close down. Last December, the pressure became almost unbearable. First they issued an order to cut our hours back far enough to bankrupt the Duck. They demanded that we shut down at 11pm-not usually a good closing time for a night club this side of Salt Lake City. Then they called in the fire marshal-recalled from vacation in Sochi especially to shut us down. In Russia, no official gets called back from his Black sea vacation unless there's a coup, and even then they usually wait it out by the sea.

In order to stay open, we hired one guy full time whose sole job was to grease palms to keep the business from being closed. But as agencies began to close in from all sides, even he could not manage to keep the wolves at bay.

They didn't stop at attacking my club. Word came that someone had contacted the immigration service to have my visa revoked. The Moscow city prosecutor charged me with three offences. Two were so ridiculous that they were instantly dropped, and I've forgotten them. The third was: "Violating the morality of Russian youth." The statute was adopted in the 1930s and used to read "Soviet" rather than "Russian" youth; it was retained, even after 1992, and the authorities stuck it to the Duck and me. Corrupting the youth-isn't that what they got Socrates for? It might be an honour to be gutted for the same thing as Socrates, but it was an honour I could have done without. After all, it was only a bar, and there are plenty of other places in this world that need a good bar.

I don't begrudge the ballerina. Her position is understandable. An elderly woman trained in classical arts can't be expected to appreciate what beauty can be made when all discipline is temporarily suspended. That's what fun is-letting go. She didn't understand, and that's just how it went. At some point, somehow, it was bound to happen.

I tried to look into different venues for the Duck, but I realised that it was fruitless. City Police Chief Kulikov, a nice, reasonable man, told me that the Duck had pissed off too many important people, and that there was no way the Duck could open again anywhere in Moscow without encountering the same hassles. So the Duck closed for good on 15th March 1999, exactly three years after my partners and I took over ownership of the club from the Chechen-Kalmyk group which started it up.

I hear lots of rumours, and get a lot of offers to manage new, up-and-coming places in this or that city. But I don't feel any urgency to leave. In the meantime, I am taking it a little easier, managing Chesterfield's, a more sedate, mature sort of club, and making plans to bring the Duck to the world. Minsk is first on my list; Sarajevo is next. I'm also looking at Beirut. My kind of towns.

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Good place for meeting ang having lunch or dinner. Far from center of Moscow but near Krasnogorsk and other locations.

Definitely worth a visit! Discover a refined cuisine with exquisit meals and drinks. Atmosphere and decorum are nice (with a marina). Service is fast, nice and friendly without trying to be unnecessarily up-scale. Only negative are the prices in the winelist. A TRUE killer... you... better chose a bottle from the left-overs shortlist. More

The location and view is the biggest weakness of this place. It maybe delivers so many customers that restaurant does not need to have ultimate cousine. The service is good and kind, but not so well trained, as in some other luxury places in Moscow.... It does not mean we were not happy with your place, we just had expectations, so here is my honest view: - Wine selection - overpriced - Tuna tartar - Nice presentation vs. bad seasoning - Very good shashlik and good sauce - You could have more Russian Vodka, you are in Russia, not in France More

Great atmosphere. An ideal place for conducting business negotiations, as well as for romantic or friendly events. The menu deserves the highest praise - the dishes that we managed to try (and there were a lot of them) were incredibly tasty. Service - at the... highest level, the staff is very attentive, caring and not intrusive. We recommend to everyone and will be happy to come again! More

Restaurant is situated by a lake so the view is great, if you can get an outdoor table. They also have very nicely designed indoor part by the way. Nice ladies welcome you at the entrance and lead you to your table. English is spoken.... Waiters are polite. Service is good. I had mozzarella salad and lentil soup and both were excellent. I would reccoment to anyone. More

Great restaurant with delicious food. Good service. I heard its even better in summer with the view to the river, which we couldn't see in winter. Really worth it to try.

Beautiful restaurant with balcony overlooking the river (frozen over when I was there) and lit up bridge. Efficient and friendly service, with English menu. The cuisine is based on one of the Asian 'stans', good but not wow. Prices a little on the high side... but not hysterically so. More

It was a hot day and although there was a big terras we needed to sit inside. Hot and now aiconditioning. A great location next to the river with a swimming pool aside. The wine I ordered was not in stock. They served all plates... and different moments, no coordination, some mismatches... The food was just ok. Luckely after the dinner we could have a drink at the terras to recover from the hot humid climate inside. More

Nice restaurant with good cuisine, but very depressing view of huge apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city and a dirty river from the terrace. I would recommend you to take a table inside the restaurant, where the interior is much more stylish. Anyway,... despite the fact, that food is fresh and tasty, there is no specific reason to visit Shore House unless you are visiting Crocus City or shopping centers nearby. More

The restaurant is Just outside the Moscow ring road with nice views of the river. I typically come here during spring and summer. The winter view is also not bad. The inside is nicely decorated and quite charming. Service is good as expected from a... Novikov restaurant. I normally like the food here, yet this time most items were just average. If it was our first time here, most probably I would not visit again. So I would like to assume it is a one time fluke. Especially the sourcing of meet should change. More

I enjoyed the location of the Shore House Restoran and the waiters were attentive but the food itself leaves something to be desired and is overpriced for what it is. Went home a little hungry and disappointed.

we enjoyed the grilled salmon. Bread brought to the table was very good. The chicken shalik was good.

Excellent for weekend lunches. I love the Azeri touch to the menu. Good also for family visits. Expensive but worth it. One of my favorite places.

Enjoyed when we stopped here for dinner after work at an exhibition in the Crocus Mall. Firstly, there's cozy inside and restaurant has a terraces with a beautiful view of the river on the yacht-club. Secondly, the food is very tasty and is served elegantly.... We were impressed by of alcohol's selection in the bar, we did not want to leave. More

My friend and I went to this place before the show (was close by). PROs: - Service; - Nice location (though outside of Moscow); - Appealing interior & exterior (nice verandah); - Rich variety of food; - free wifi; PROs: - Overpricy (we paid around... 250 USD for two dishes, one appetizer, two deserts, a glass of wine and tea); - In spite of the fact that this restaurant claimed to be a fish one, the seafood was a poor quality: my oysters and overpriced crab (over 100 USD per piece) werent fresh: oysters were clinged to the shells, crab had empty limbs like this crab was frozen not even once! - Verandah is a smoking zone, so we had to move inside; - Not much choice for taking just a glass of wine; - Crumbs werent cleaned after the main dishes, so had to eat my desert turning up and down the part of tablecloth - no reaction from the waiters. Actually was really disppointed - I visited this place many times before and can say that the quality of food was deteriorated a lot (( Wouldnt recommend... More

SHORE HOUSE, Moscow - Menu, Prices & Restaurant Reviews - Tripadvisor

• Atmosphere: 4.5