Ducks, ducks, everywhere ducks!
Mo and I went for a walk today. It was such a lovely, sunny and warm day. We started out at our favourite reservoir, then decided to drive to another lovely spot and have a cup of tea, while watching the ducks that trotted around waiting for scraps of food. We noticed a lonely little duck standing on a pedestal. We soon realized that he had a bad leg. Poor little ducky! Mo went to buy some duck food, and I managed to get up close enough to take some macro shots of it.
Just before we were leaving, Mo suggested that we go and look at a couple of white ducks, which were on the grass area. She threw a handful of duck food and before it had even hit the ground she was surrounded by dozens of ducks, all pecking around her feet. Look at that one gazing up at her!
While I was trying to catch this, feverishly moving, bunch of ducks with my camera, Mo threw some food over at my feet. There we were, standing in the middle of a sea of ducks, all feverishly pecking at our feet. As soon as the food ran out, they would peck at our legs, asking for more. It was hilarious.
Finally, we moved back to our car to leave. Mo threw the last of the food down for those ducks and the same thing happened. As soon as they realized there was no more food, they left without so much as a thank you, as you can see from this photo.
This was a whole new slant on feeding the ducks!
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Rattitude
| 13 October 2008 at 5:13
Thats a scary number of ducks.
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liza
| 13 October 2008 at 8:42
poor thing! but all the rest looked so happy to see you with food. and the last photo looked like a duck invasion, lol.
happy monday!
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Natural
| 13 October 2008 at 12:01
I’m surprised the duck let you get that close to take its picture. Beautiful colors. The first picture is really cute. I have to do a better job with my macro setting. Are you using a DSLR or a digital point and shoot?
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Babs - beetle
| 13 October 2008 at 12:43
Rattitude: Normally I would agree with you. I hate most things in large numbers, but these were sooo cute
Liza: That first duck eventually jumped down, and was very able to get around with the rest of them, we were glad to see.
Natural: They were all very tame ducks. I only use my point and shoot at the moment but I hope to get a DSLR for Christmas
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Pensacola Beach Vacation
| 13 October 2008 at 15:24
i love ducks
Swubird
| 13 October 2008 at 15:26
Babs:
What a great picture of so many beautiful ducks. I haven’t seen ducks like that for over twenty years. There’s a park with a small man-made lake a few blocks from our house with lots of ducks, but would you believe that the last time we were there was in the mid-1980’s? Where does the time go?
Happy trails.
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Jaffer
| 13 October 2008 at 16:17
Whoa that’s a lot of ducks ! And they are so beautiful.
Perhaps they are all flocked in the UK ’cause they know it’s hunting season in Canada.
Nice shoes Babs.
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beetle
| 13 October 2008 at 16:39
Swubird: Oh Swubird, go a visit the ducks! You’ll enjoy it
Jaffer: Actually there were a lot more, but I couldn’t get them all in the photo. We don’t hunt duck in the UK, so they can all come over if they like
My shoes were very mucky by the time they finished pecking at, and standing on them!
Daisy the Curly Cat
| 13 October 2008 at 17:13
At first I thought the duck in the first photo was a statue!
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Karen, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry"
| 13 October 2008 at 17:27
What a fun time! We went to the park Saturday too and saw a bunch of ducks. There was an elderly couple who came to feed the ducks there too and the same thing happened. Eat and go!
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beetle
| 13 October 2008 at 17:29
Daisy: They move their heads so fast that it is hard to get a photo. Finally it kept still enough for me.
beetle
| 13 October 2008 at 18:39
Pensacola Beach: Me too. They were biting our legs so gently asking for food
Shinade
| 14 October 2008 at 0:41
Oh I love ducks. We have a few in our pond. We retired out to a lakeside community and we have ducks and geese when we can find them.
Sadly we lose many to predators. I lost all 6 pair of my geese last year and have not been able to find anymore anywhere.
But we do love the. And I truly enjoyed these wonderful pictures.:-)
beetle
| 14 October 2008 at 2:00
Shinade: I am so sorry you lost your geese. It must be so sad. I never really knew how sweet ducks were until now. They were so gentle when biting our legs for more food. I took many more photos but couldn’t post them all
Jeff
| 14 October 2008 at 2:52
You quack me up.
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Jay
| 14 October 2008 at 7:58
Babs – those are great shots! Especially that first one! Handsome fellow, isn’t he? Bad leg or no.
I love the way the push off as soon as the food runs out. LOL!
Gandalf and Grayson
| 14 October 2008 at 12:41
So they just eat and ran? That is a little bit rude.
beetle
| 14 October 2008 at 15:10
Jeff: Ha ha! It quacked us up at the time
Jay: They were really lovely little things. We really laughed as they briskly walked away!
Gandalf & Grayson: They certainly do eat and run! They don’t have beans to teach them manners though.
beetle
| 14 October 2008 at 18:12
Karen: It was great fun! Ducks go where the food is
Kathy
| 14 October 2008 at 20:41
I love that last shot! Like the food ran out at the buffet queue! We had two ducks visit our yard for about a month this summer. Fred and Ethyl, we named them. I don’t know why they came to only our yard. We had no water, only some bird seed. I missed them when they stopped flying in for visits. QUACK!
Great shots, Babs!
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Lady Banana
| 14 October 2008 at 20:43
Lovely pictures… I love feeding the ducks
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beetle
| 14 October 2008 at 22:02
Kathy: It really made us chuckle when they all waddled away. They were so sweet.
Lady Banana: I’ve never fed ducks with seed before. I was surprised at that!
DrowseyMonkey
| 15 October 2008 at 1:18
I love ducks!
Love em! But yes, they were a tad ungrateful, lol.
Fantastic photos.
Babs - beetle
| 15 October 2008 at 2:04
Drowsey: Next time we go I shall give them a little talking to on good manners
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Ana
| 15 October 2008 at 10:08
Wow, these are many ducks… Probably I would have been a bit scared.
Such beautiful photos!
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Babs - beetle
| 15 October 2008 at 13:06
Anything in large numbers usually scare me a bit, but the ducks were so lovely, I wouldn’t have cared how many there were
Sarah
| 15 October 2008 at 14:32
Ahhhhh mallards! My niece had three ducks, a drake mallard and two call ducks. Puddles the mallard is a real character. Has a waddle round the house, quacking as he goes!
You would love runner ducks too, they look like walking wine bottles!
Hugs, Sarah x
beetle
| 15 October 2008 at 15:01
Sarah: You’ve made me want a duck for a pet now ha ha! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a runner duck! Google search now
Mitch
| 15 October 2008 at 23:26
I love ducks myself, but with that many around, I always worry about where to step to miss the poop. lol
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Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"
| 16 October 2008 at 0:59
That really looks fun. Duck duck duck mallard duck brown duck lotta duck
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beetle
| 16 October 2008 at 1:06
Mitch: The strangest thing is, I didn’t notice any poop at all!
Speedy: It certainly was a lorra,lorra duck, as our Cilla would say!
Maureen
| 16 October 2008 at 18:12
Ha! That last one is all like “Hrmph…. now whose our next victim, er, good samaritan?”
Great photos!!!
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sammawow
| 16 October 2008 at 20:15
Those are great shots of all those ducks. I used to always take my daughter to the park to feed the ducks. And every Spring we get at least three mallards that like to swim in our pool. I like seeing them in the backyard but my husband chases them away since he is in charge of the pool!
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Babs - beetle
| 16 October 2008 at 23:26
Maureen: Yes, they turned a ran so quickly too. They have it off to a fine art
sammawow: They are very cute, but maybe they would make a mess of your pool eh?
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Samantha & Mr. Tigger
| 17 October 2008 at 2:14
Oh my goodness, we feed two ducks! You feed hundreds! Good thing you had pants and closed toed shoes on! (hehehehehe)
Your FL furiends,
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JD at I Do Things
| 21 October 2008 at 17:21
I love the mass exodus of the ducks!
They are beautiful, but I would feel nervous about a huge mob of them pecking at me. I’d probably be the one running off.
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beetle
| 22 October 2008 at 1:42
Samantha & Tigger: Ha ha! Yes, they were standing allover our feet – and pecking them
JD: I usually don’t like creature on mass, but these didn’t bother me at all. They were so cute and their pecks were very gentle.
Michael
| 17 July 2009 at 7:12
Looks like more than one breed of duck there.
Also i looks like they are used to getting feed on a regular basis. Birds are quite clever actually and learn pretty quickly when they are going to get fed.