It's so nice to see the waterfowl back on the ponds. This one pond I visited has such a wide variety of ducks all so busy! I could spend hours watching them and in fact I did taking a multitude of photos. It took me awhile sorting through them to chose the best to share, thus my Sublime Sunday is being posted on a Monday!
Here we go - off to the pond...
The first few pictures were of a small pond by the road where pairs of ringed-necked ducks were making their nesting grounds.
Beautiful Pair of Ring Necked Ducks
Ringed-neck Duck Splashing in the Water
Male Ring-necked Duck Stretching Wings
In the field by that pond there was a flock of geese feeding.
Geese Feeding in the Field
Close Up Pair of Canada Geese
At the main pond I was visiting there were a pair of grebes busy building their nest.
Pair of Grebes Swimming by Old Reeds
Male Grebe Bringing Nesting Material to Female
The grebes are built quite funny with their legs set far back on their body.
At the Feathered Photography blog they give an explanation for this:
Grebes are unique to most other water birds in two ways that are related to this behavior: 1.) their legs are attached to their bodies at the rear, rather than underneath and 2.) the toes of grebes are lobed instead of webbed.
Having legs attached at the rear allows for efficient swimming but causes extreme clumsiness while walking – they rarely venture on to land, but when they do they often fall down after just a few steps.
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Female Grebe Getting on Nest
Pair of Grebes at Nest
A duck that was quite common on the pond was the canvas backs with their striking red heads and eyes.
Close Up Canvas Backed Ducks
3 Male Canvasback Ducks
Canvas Back Scooting Across the Water
Pair of Canvas Back Ducks Female Stretching Wings
Close Up Canvas Back Ducks Female Stretching Wings
The canvasback males were quite aggressive during mating season as you can see by this male chasing another male away from his female.
Male Canvasback Chasing Another Male Away From Female
There were a pair of northern shovelers too. The male is quite beautiful with his colorful feathers.
Close Up Male Northern Shoveler
Another Female Stretching Her Wings
Couple of Pairs Canvas Back Ducks Coot Swimming With Them
There were a flock of coots swimming around the pond then they came to rest at a little island formed close to the center of the pond.
Coots Resting on Island With Pair of Mallard Ducks and Shore Bird
Shore Bird Doing It's Ballet Moves
Couple of Gulls Resting on Island Ring Necked Duck Swims By
As we were coming to the end of the day the ducks were settling in for a rest. These canvas backs are resting right on the water, drifting along with their heads tucked in.
3 Canvas Back Ducks Resting on the Water Gull Swims By
These golden eyed ducks chose to rest on a log.
Golden Eye Ducks Resting on Log
That's it for now.
Bird images are for the #FeatheredFriends community hosted by @melinda010100
Big shout out to @ace108 for running the Beautiful Sunday tag every week supporting the accounts. Also to @c0ff33a for the Sublime Sunday tag for your random Sunday posts!
The photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS.
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