ducks

[livinginoz]

this is spud, a mallard drake, who was hatched from an egg found in my mother's garden in minneapolis. when she found it, she first thought it was a potato.....thus his name
http://livinginoz.smugmug.com/photos/47903469-M.jpg

this industrious mama hatched 16 eggs

http://livinginoz.smugmug.com/photos/47903345-M.jpg

http://livinginoz.smugmug.com/photos/47903276-M.jpg

[Thusie]

Nice shots, baby ducks are so cute.

[Harryb]

good catches :thumb

[Rohirrim]

Nice captures Laurie.

[livinginoz]

thanks, everyone. i should add that Spud lives on our farm, so i don't have to go far to find mallard photos....i carried his egg around for two days after i got it from mom, and then stuck it in the incubator. we have about two dozen ducks, a dozen geese and i have lost track of the number of chickens. if it wasn't so darn cold, i would work on classier photos of them.

http://livinginoz.smugmug.com/photos/48032955-M.jpg

[livinginoz]

same goose, slightly younger :):

http://livinginoz.smugmug.com/photos/48036232-M.jpg