Today I Give You a Mated Pair of Wood Ducks and Their Six Little Ducklings.
The male is the colorful one on the right and the more muted colored female is on the left.
I did the image editing and loaded them into the template last night so I could just write the post when I got home today. I was browsing through #featheredfriends and notice
posted The Duck Family @nelinoeva/duck-family .So I'm thinking (yes I do that sometimes) what are the odds we both come up with ducklings on the same day ? Well great minds think alike I guess ;)
As I arrived at the pond a lady and her kids were throwing grain to the ducks (rolled oats I think) and all the ducks were heading in for lunch. Then I here one of the kids yell "DUCKLINGS", "They have ducklings".
I stop and took several images with the 18mm to 55mm and flipped over to the Sigma 150mm-600mm to get some close ups of these beautiful birds. I ended up taking a ton of images at the pond and I didn't even come here to image ducks lol. I came down here to image the new Sky Walk they built off in the forest behind the duck pond.
I was glad to see people feeding them something more wholesome than bread as it's not very good for them. I didn't take anything to feed them but if I do I bring some grapes( they love grapes) or grains. When I still lived next door I would gather up the snails in the backyard and put them in a coffee can to take down to the pond. The ducks go wild over them.
Ahhh How Cute
A lot of the images I captured had a fair amount of noise in them =( I was shooting shutter priority and forgot to limit the ISO to 400 and when I checked the image info I found the ISO going as high as 1300 so I got more than a little noise from that high of an ISO.
More cuteness
Here's a shot with Mom and five of the six ducklings
A few more bites before following the gang back to the island.
After a nice swim and some lunch it's time to go to the island for a quick preen and a nice nap
Come on you guys hurry up.....
Ooohhh What's that O.o , lets go check it out.
Turtle snuggle !!!
This was a surprise, I've never witnessed a bunch of ducklings chillin with a turtle. The turtle has been laying there in the sun and is probably nice and warm and the chicks are insulating the turtle's shady side so it looks like a win win.
They are not bringing that thing home I'm putting my flipper down on that
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One more shot before I head off into the trees to find the Sky Walk.
On passing by the ducks on my way out of the park I decided to see if the ducklings wee still kicking it with the turtle... Yep all of them.
Oh wait stop pushing or I'm gonna....
Faaalll
Ducklings laugh it up with the turtle
Mom scolds ducklings. Ducklings deny pushing sister in pond and blame Turtle
Duckling swims away mumbling some very unladylike chirps, vows to get her own Turtle
And Does nener nener nener
Well that's all for this post I had to split the ducks into 2 posts, the ducklings in one and the adults will be in the next one. This post was long one even after breaking to two posts and pairing down the duckling images.
Hope you all enjoyed the images. See you all nest time.
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