they're back! here's one taking off over a cranberry bog. someone else got this pic.

   

There is a pond next to the grocery store I go to. Zack and I would always buy a package of hot dog buns for $1 and feed the ducks after we grocery shopped. We had a good time. They would come right up to us and eat out of our hands.

We had a really pretty white duck in the cove the other day!!
I missed getting a picture, as I didn't have a camera with me.

But I will get some pictures soon, Cause we all ways have a lot of duck with the little babies with them.

(03-25-2010, 09:19 AM)Loricat Wrote: There is a pond next to the grocery store I go to. Zack and I would always buy a package of hot dog buns for $1 and feed the ducks after we grocery shopped. We had a good time. They would come right up to us and eat out of our hands.

I would still be doing that! I don't think you can ever be too old to "feed the ducks". In fact, I think we will make that a spring break thing this year!

That white duck is probably someone's "pet", Kim.

Mine aren't back yet! I thought they were flying around but it was only the ravens destroying one of the songbirds nests.

These are my ducks from last spring in the pool:

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That is so cute! We know we get ducks in our pool, but the only evidence are the feathers left behind! We never catch them long enough to get a picture.

I like Ducks, much better than crows or blue jays. Mallard males are brilliant and colorful and they are family oriented. I love going into work early in the morning watching the chicks follow the Mother all over. As the year gets older they get bigger they look awkwards following the Mother. It reminds me of a bunch of teenagers with Mom going to the Mall.
Last year one baby got stuck in the culvert near the drainage ponds at work and we had to fish it out with a cardboard box. The Mother was squacking and the Dad was just pacing back and forth along the woodline. When that chick hit the grass you could see the lawn whisking up from under that chicks feet as it ran to the Mother. The next week they were gone into the swamp. They are breeding and copulating more them I am right about now. Getting ready to lay eggs, building nests. I like Ducks.

Greeneyes, we can get right up close to them here. A couple of times they've landed in the pool with us in there!

They don't lay eggs in my yard though, the dogs and cats worry them too much but they come and hang out and swim. Same pair for the last 5 or 6 years now too.

Those damn Canadian geese are a pain right in the ass, everyone thinks it is so neat when they hang around their ponds and stuff, until there yard is a goose shit covered mess.

Sometimes in the summer I get up to the Erie canal to ride bike and the geese are thick in spots, so is the goose shit, and they are mean and nasty, they will chase right after you on a bike.

I enjoy watching Mallards too.
The drakes have a hard time of it, because the ducks are such tarts!

My dad had an article in his bird magazine (ornithology!) about the DNA of the chicks. They could be fathered by several drakes, so the eggs are a real mixed bag.

The sparrows are fighting in our 'apartment' in the roof dad built for them already. Reminds me of Christine's morning moan of the 'dawn scrap' rather than the 'dawn chorus'