Tag Archives: Waterfowl

“Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath” — Jacob Braude

A Mallard Drake gives me a nice profile opportunity at the Fleetwood Park pond back on 1-24-2009. If you need a good laugh and love animals, check out this video on YouTube.

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Clyde enjoyed his quiet moments alone, barefoot in the grass…

Canada Goose Gosling at Fleetwood Park back on 5-20-2009. We usually have a few Canada Geese at the park but they are normally transient so when I saw that a mating pair had chosen to raise their Goslings at the park, it was a real treat. For more information about Canada Geese, visit this page...

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…and then little Bobby Melvins [age 4] dropped a piece of bread 2 miles away…

Some of the 120,000-150,000 Snow Geese that visit the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA during February and March of each year. I shot this back on 3-7-2010. How they don’t all fly into one another is beyond my comprehension. For more information on Snow Geese, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Lessons in how to be a Swan…

The breeding pair of Mute Swans at the larger of the two ponds at Spring Ridge in Missing, PA had one surviving Cygnet (baby swan) in 2009 and two in 2010. This shot shows the Mother Swan teaching the baby in 2009 how to get at the plants below the surface of the water. Educating...

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Adios

A Mallard Drake takes off from the Fleetwood Park pond back on 4-30-2010. I feel bad that I haven’t spent much time with my Mallard friends this year. I’m going to check on them this weekend and make sure everyone is still OK with this bitterly cold weather we’ve been having.

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Can’t stop paddling…Fish will eat me !

One of three ducklings that mysteriously showed up at my Parent’s back yard pond this past weekend. This one was paddling feverishly trying to avoid the Koi who were just trying to be friends to their new feathered guests.

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Ducklings arrive a little late to the party

Three Mallard Ducklings try to hop up on the Lilly Pads in order to avoid the nipping of their heals by the Koi fish down below. I was sitting in the sun room that overlooks my parents backyard pond on Sunday afternoon and all of a sudden we noticed a Mallard Hen and her three...

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