New Chicks
2007-11-22 00:51:45
A saved entry from Sunday, 18/11/07It had been almost a week since I last visited the duckpond, and I knew I had to get photos, fast! I knew from watching the Midlings grow that the new baby Cutiechicks would not look like this for long. So even though it’s the middle of a heat wave, I decided to find them. Plus I had an art interview tomorrow I had been preparing for all week and I wanted to take some photos for it and also needed a distraction.First I visited the Snuggleducks. They were still stuck in their own little pond, though they were about fully grown and probably capable of flying out. Maybe they are just happy in their pond. They'd better learn soon, though, since the water is the lowest it's ever been and summer hasn't even started. As you can see, their wings are fully
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Black Duck Nastiness and Confusion
2007-11-22 00:30:05
A saved entry from Tuesday, 20/19/07It was another boiling day today, too hot to visit the duckpond for most hours. The temperature started to cool down in the afternoon, however, so Mantichora and I decided to see if the wood ducks had returned. Upon our arrival, it started to rain! Finally! I was worried the birds would shelter in the rain or it would be difficult to photograph them, but it was only spitting and I soon spotted two Midlings were feeding around the ‘shore’* (the other was standing on a rock near that cycad) and there, Mantichora met the new black ducklings for the first time.At this point I wondered where the Cutiechicks were, and started looking for them. Maybe they were resting on the island, as I’d seen the Midlings do when they were smaller. If they were, th
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Baby Bird Diary's First Entry!
2007-11-21 15:45:12
Hello, and welcome to the Baby Bird Diary
. Here I will attempt to document the weekly happenings of the young waterfowl at two duckponds I like to visit. I began this project after weeks of vague consideration, inspired by some photos I took of the three groups of baby birds I watched grow up over a period of six-eight weeks. These were the now-named Midlings, three moorhen chicks inhabiting the large, main pond occupied by most of the waterfowl; the two wood ducklings, young of wood ducks Tabitha and Pompadour who grazed around the same pond; and the Snuggleducks, two Pacific black ducklings trapped by high walls and a lowered water level in their own smaller pond but growing just fine. In fact, concern about the Snuggleducks’ survival initially prompted my boyfriend Mantichora and m
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