Yes, more photos from the world’s laziest photographer. I love to take pictures from my windows. It can be raining, windy, nasty cold or blistering hot, and I don’t mind at all!
Thursday, 4/9: We noticed a duck (Mrs. Mallard) hanging out in the little bit of a “front yard” that we have in front of our townhouse. There’s a lovely pond behind our house, filled with wildlife and perfectly good ducky stuff. But no, this female appeared to be shopping for a nesting site in the little bit of a green area between our sidewalks and driveways. Maybe she’s more of an urban gal.
She must have spent at least ten minutes checking out this little area, up and down the sidewalk, through the little bushes. I think she could see the focusing beam from my camera, because she looked at the window like she could see me and was wondering what I was doing.
Finally, she’s had enough of being spied upon. (According to the National Geographic Birds of North America, Mallards don’t require a running start to take off, but can spring directly into flight.)
Friday, 4/10 (the very next day), this is what we see:
She brought Hubby Duck!!! It reminded me of the 3-4 years we spent looking for a townhouse. “We” was really me looking at a couple to several townhouse developments most weekends, dragging Hubby Man back to see the best of the best, only to have him shoot them down. The female duck had been pre-shopping the day before!!! And now she’s back getting HD’s approval and checking for comfort:
HD is doing his homework, and figures he’s going to check with the neighbors and see what kind of place this is. Oh-oh, I don’t think Ben & Muriel are home.
I can almost hear him saying, sure, it’s nice, but what are the taxes with all these so-called improvements??? Can we afford it? Is this a good place to raise our ducklings?
They won’t be back. I don’t think Hubby Duck liked it!
Sue
