So I’m sitting here in a Shaperio Library window alcove on the third floor.  I’m watching the world go by on South University as I wait for my computer to boot up.  I casually scan the Clements Library next door, noticing the classical details, the arched window, the dental molding near the roof.  And I think to myself “that sculpture on the front corner isn’t in keeping with the clean lines of the building.”  And then I realize the sculpture is a male mallard duck standing on the very corner.  He is also watching the world go by on South University, though sometimes he seems particularly taken by something on the lawn.  Turns out there is a female mallard duck on the lawn,foraging for food among the shrubs (503 in real life!) being escorted by another male mallard.  Perhaps this is spurned love?  OR does he have a female of his own somewhere up there on the roof?