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dragoness_e) wrote2010-07-31 12:04 pm
dragoness_e) wrote2010-07-31 12:04 pm
Last spring at the park
Rather belated pictures of the birds at LaFreniere Park from last March (2010).
Duck kerfluffle
Sordid duck affairs that would make a Law & Order:SVU episode if it were humans...
Are you sure that's water?
One of our local Cayuga ducks, a lovely black-green domestic breed.
Flotilla
There was this one mallard hen with eleven ducklings following her around. They stayed in a fairly tight huddle, and she kept diving and chasing something away from the ducklings.
Staying close
A raft of ducklings
Those are cypress tree roots, by the way.
Find the duck in this picture
Black swan, preening
White swan, preening
I bet you can't curve your neck in a figure-8.
That feather in back itches. Let me tend to it
And thaaat one, too!
Check those underarms, too.
The black swans have another family; it looks like the park will have at least one breeding pair every year, though I don't know if it's the same pair. If this keeps up, we'll have an awful lot of swans. I understand that in the wild, they have flocks of thousands in Australia.
This year's cygnet crop
Spring Turtles
Red-Ear Turtle?
Then we had these two idiot Canadian geese who decided that the formal garden in the center of the park was The Very Best Place To Nest.
Nesting geese do not like visitors; no, they do not want your bread.
Canada goose nest
Another goose nest, hidden away on the swamp island below the walkway
These other geese, however, do want to be fed.
Geese soliciting hand-outs
Geese with Entitlement issues
This picture just cries for a macro. Any suggestions?
Duck kerfluffle
Sordid duck affairs that would make a Law & Order:SVU episode if it were humans...
Are you sure that's water?
One of our local Cayuga ducks, a lovely black-green domestic breed.
Flotilla
There was this one mallard hen with eleven ducklings following her around. They stayed in a fairly tight huddle, and she kept diving and chasing something away from the ducklings.
Staying close
A raft of ducklings
Those are cypress tree roots, by the way.
Find the duck in this picture
Black swan, preening
White swan, preening
I bet you can't curve your neck in a figure-8.
That feather in back itches. Let me tend to it
And thaaat one, too!
Check those underarms, too.
The black swans have another family; it looks like the park will have at least one breeding pair every year, though I don't know if it's the same pair. If this keeps up, we'll have an awful lot of swans. I understand that in the wild, they have flocks of thousands in Australia.
This year's cygnet crop
Spring Turtles
Red-Ear Turtle?
Then we had these two idiot Canadian geese who decided that the formal garden in the center of the park was The Very Best Place To Nest.
Nesting geese do not like visitors; no, they do not want your bread.
Canada goose nest
Another goose nest, hidden away on the swamp island below the walkway
These other geese, however, do want to be fed.
Geese soliciting hand-outs
Geese with Entitlement issues
This picture just cries for a macro. Any suggestions?