I headed over to the pond with Jack who is finally up to leaving the apartment, and we saw this hawk scaring the ducks.
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| red-tailed hawk |
And there was a coot hanging out by the bridge! It has a fish it's tearing bits off of and eating, which you can barely see in this shot. But what you can see (sort of at least) is its crazy coot foot! :-)
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| American coot |
A wood duck, daring me to find a more gorgeous animal to take a picture of.
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| wood duck |
It's hard for ducks to get private time. This onlooker did ~not~ mind his own business.
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| mallard |
Yes, yes, the same wood duck, now ready for his close-up.
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| wood duck |
That about wore Jack out, and he headed back home to nap while I continued on towards the ramble. This flicker was near the boathouse. Bit of a pink face.
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| northern flicker |
Creeper! At the feeders.
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| brown creeper |
The lady of the hour, holding court. At least four photographers had lenses only for her.
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| Baltimore oriole, female |
This house finch was just as happy to not have quite so much attention.
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| house finch |
Oof. This poor guy. Wonder what happened.
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| house finch |
Check out the ring on this female mallard! Never seen a prominent neck ring on a female like that.
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| mallard |
At the end of the day, it's hard not to love a bunch of shovelers.
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| northern shoveler |
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