How many baby duck photos can we post?

Apparently quite a few. Other than baby ducks, there's not much else around, except a wet night heron.

California Birds: Too much rain in NJ

The rain is dampening any birding plans. We do have daily duck visitors, but how many duck photos can we post? Here are two photos from CA, an old one of a roadrunner in our backyard when we lived there, and a recent one of an unidentified bird in Bolsa Chica.

Summer Ducklings

We feel very honored when the mother ducks bring the babies up into the yard. Looks like they will be quite helpful with the clean up task under the bird feeder. Today there were actually two groups of mothers with babies in the yard, these little guys and a slightly older group. They kept their distance and shared nicely the whole time with the older group mostly napping and these young ones filling up.

Beaver

 

 

 

We were pleased to find the beaver dam this weekend and even more pleased to see one out of the water.

Baby Ducks

 

 

 

Great Egret

 

Duckling Rescue

When we went for an early morning walk, we noticed the mother mallard swimming around a ring float in the lake that is near the fountains. It appeared to be calling to a duckling that was stuck inside the float. When we got home, we saw that there was still much activity and calling around the float. We took the boat over and were surprised to find that there were actually four cute baby ducks swimming in the inner part of the ring but couldn't make it out. Mike gave them each a boost and the baby ducks quickly caught up with the mother. She actually has a total of eight, but we were too busy to photograph them all.