[JustaDumbBlonde]

Good morning, Mr. Red! Yesterday morning we had 12 new baby wood ducks that had hatched from the duck box, but the momma ducks (4 hens had all been using the box) took the ducklings to the lower pond and I am unable to get a photo.

This morning, first light revealed new goslings from one of our pairs of Canadians. There are at least 6 babies, although it is always hard to get an accurate count the first couple of days. I'm sorry that the photo is such poor quality, but I had to zoom across the pond with my horrible little camera. If you strain, you can see some of the little ones:

Two other geese are still on their nests and I know that one of them is sitting on 4 eggs. The other is probably sitting on more, as she is much younger and the usual number is around 6-8.

[hoosiermama]

Have added four pullets to our menagerie. Rascal now has a “Good Job”, checking the chickens.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Lovely picture. Three times this past week I’ve spotted some kind of very tall heron, or crane in the adjacent fields when we were on the road for my husband’s daily appointment at the hospital. I’m going to look them up in a picture book. These cranes (?) were about 3-4 ft tall and a brown color — same as the dry grass around the ponds. I also saw one in flight.

I’ve been watching a nest at the hopital from the lunch room and expect to see ducklings any day. Not sure what kind because they are pretty far away. I saw the father relieve the mother on the nest last week. They could be ordinary mallards, but I don’t think so. It looked like the mother had a dark head too.

I’ll have to remember to bring my binoculars on Monday (our last radiation day).