Who Is The Wild Ducks (The Flying Ducks)?
The flock that carries the Baron through the sky
The Flock of Wild Ducks
The Wild Ducks are a flock gathered on a lake that serve as both the Baron's prey and his means of flying through the air in his hunting tales.
Once, the Baron spots wild ducks on a lake after losing the flint from his gun. He punches himself in the eye to make sparks, fires the gun with them, and brings down several ducks with a single shot. In another episode, he ties a piece of fat to the end of a long cord and tosses it into the water. Each duck swallows the fat, which passes through its body to be swallowed by the next, until the ducks are strung together along the cord like beads.
Then the whole flock takes off at once, carrying the Baron home with the cord wrapped around his body. Steering with the tails of his coat, he brings them lower and drops down the kitchen chimney, giving the cook the fright of a lifetime. Together, the gun trick and the flight home form one of the signature sequences in the Baron's hunting tales.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 2
He Shot a Stag With a Cherry Pit. Then...Baron Munchausen: The Stag and the Cherry Tree
Out of flint and out of bullets, the Baron fires with whatever he has on hand, then gets hauled into the sky by a string of ducks. And the desperate shot of cherry pits he fired that day? Years later, it comes back out of the deep forest in a shape nobody saw coming.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 4
He Rode a Cannonball. No Return Ticket.Baron Munchausen: The Cannonball Ride
To scout an enemy town no one can enter, Baron Munchausen leaps onto a flying cannonball. Only in midair does he notice the flaw in his plan: there's no way back. And later, stranded in a swamp with no one around, he grabs hold of his own hair. *The storytelling frame, the view from the sky, and the bloodless comedy are adaptations.
19 pages