Dozens of mallards gather near the edge of The Pond on a winter's day in Central Park in New York, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Author J.D. Salinger, whose immortal teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield of "Catcher in the Rye," wondered where the ducks from the Central Park pond go in winter, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H. Salinger was 91 and died of natural causes. (AP Photo)
