To hear a frequent visitor to McKay Park tell it, Gertie the duck is depressed ... “Gertie has been keeping her head under water since that day, and I don’t know why,” Blume said.

But she also has rehabilitated animals that were victims of blatant cruelty — including a duck shot through the head with a homemade arrow. Janette Armstrong, an independent wildlife ...

A bolt of bad luck can’t keep a good duck down. A duck in Buchanan Park in Bethlehem has a crossbow bolt through the back of its head. But it appears to be doing all right and, naturally ...