No, nobody is feeding the ducks. The town has a number, maybe ten small signs posted on the bridge, beach, town dock and boat rental dock and probably other spots that say something like "Please do not feed the ducks! (No matter what they say!)" w/ a drawing of a duck family, a momma and poppa duck w/ 3 lil' ducks. No one is feeding the ducks.
As already mentioned by me, this 7-acre pond will usually have just a small number, maybe six ducks and geese on it. However, there were 45-50 Mallard ducks, there on Friday night, June 23 at 9:15. after dark, that were all running back and forth from the beach to the water and trying to catch something in the water, some natural food item for a duck. This big, 45-50 duck flock of Mallards flew in from somewhere, after dark, to feed, and they left a lot of small feathers on the town beach at the waters edge as I saw the next day on Saturday morning, yesterday.
This one big flock of 45-50 Mallard ducks plus a small number, say-5, of other ducks and Canada geese close to the inflow are all-together fowling or fouling the Corcoran Pond town beach area and pond water, or something.
Enough water flows into Corcoran's Pond from the Snow's Brook inflow that there's almost always water flowing through the pond, out and over the dam.
The NH-DES Healthy Swimming Mapper says that Corcoran's Pond beach gets resampled on Monday, June 26, with new results out on Tuesday, June 27. Do they sample the sand on the beach or the water in the pond or both areas or what?
......... two promotional photos of Corcoran's Pond, a 7-acre dammed-up pond section in a flat area on Snow's Brook ..... dug out by Tommy Corcoran sometime about 1984 ....
http://www.arrivalguides.com/en/Trav...ran-pond-43541 .... who personally dug it all out, all by himself with an $8.99 long handle shovel from Rand's Hardware! ....... photo with bridge and road is indeed Corcoran's Pond ....... other photo with pedal boat is NOT Corcoran's Pond and is a phoney-baloney photo
The bridge in the true photo is a two-lane wide road bridge going over the inflow of Snow's Brook which is a large and steep brook with a very large drainage area between Snow's Mountain, Flat Mountain, and Noon Peak including Flat Mountain Pond that drains down Snow's Brook from Corcoran's Pond for maybe 300-yards, down into the Mad River.