As always, I had a good look around when we got there:
It was a bit breezy, as you can tell from my fur!
We saw Blue Winged Teals again!
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| Blue Winged Teals |
Then I saw my favorite ducks!
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| Redheads! |
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| Redhead |
See the resemblance?
We also saw these guys!
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| Ring-Necked Ducks! |
We do believe they're Ring-Necked Ducks! (Check this link.) Aren't they cool? Here are some more pix of them:
Here's one swimming with some Redheads and friends!
Mom is trying to ID the duck in the upper right-hand corner of that photo above.
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| "Ha roo?" |
Let's zoom in - check the upper right in these pix:
Sort of a coppery-brown head with a white dot by his bill. If you have any ideas, please let us know!
I made sure to scan the whole ocean, checking for more ducks:
That's one of the cool things about the Kansas Ocean - you can pretty much take in the whole thing from one vantage point. Not all oceans are like that!
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| "Front and center, Mom! More Redheads!" |
Be sure to check the upper left-hand corner of the photo above! Dive! Dive! Dive! Ha roo roo roo! I hope he got something tasty!
After we'd been there a while, the ducks must have had their fill of being at the KSO and took off:
I wished them a good afternoon ...
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| "Fly safe! See everyduck again soon!" |
... then Mom and I headed home, too.
I hope you enjoyed coming to the ocean with us. For more pix of the birds we saw, please visit our FlickR set Birds!
Play bows,
Zim
Oh Zim, I liked seeing the ducks, especially the redheaded ones, but I think YOU'RE the handsomest redhead out there.
ReplyDelete-Cinderella
Do you think you can give some tips to the Homeowner's Association of Webster Manor some tips on how to keep the algae out of the Kansas Ocean?
ReplyDeleteThey dump a bunch of chemicals into ours and it makes it so so so so so gross and stuff grows anyway. We hate it.
Nora
I love tagging a long ducking with you Zim. Your mom sure can take some awesome photos of the birdies. Of course I know you are a big part of her getting so many good shots. They all want to come on over and say quack at you.
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Gosoe.
The red headed duck has your color hair, BOL
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Benny & Lily
It's so interesting that there's so much to see there, Zim! Piappies Mom like the Blue Winged Teals. They're so pretty. The Redheads sure remind us of you. Thanks for the zoom in alert, that duckie sure looked like he got himself some treats.
ReplyDeleteGreat to go bird watching with you. Til the next one.
Love,
Piappies Fudgie, Princess, Frappie, Mocha, Sugar, Wai-Max, Wai-Pai & Forgie
those ducks don't have nothing on you ..zim!
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Ha-Roo Zim no wonder you can talk bird you's a red head too. Quackidy quack my friend. Have a Happy April Fools Day.
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You have stumped us with your mystery duck!
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I am not a redhead but I would like to make friends with those ducks!
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Beautiful pictures of your ducky friends, Zim! The one that was, er, bottoms up made us mol :D Your mystery duck is a mystery to us too. We want to say Canvas Back, but we don't think that is right. Whatever it is, it's beautiful :)
ReplyDeletePip, Smidgen, Minnie, HOllie
There sure are a lot of redheads in your neck of the woods, er, ocean! It's fun seeing all the birdies with you!
ReplyDeleteIts the Distantwingedquacker your looking at as a mystery duck. Or maybe something else.
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Stella
Hi Zim, I love your duck pictures. I think your mystery duck is a female Lesser Scaup. If you scroll down to the pictures at the bottom of this page ( http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Lesser_Scaup/id ) you can see the middle picture looks a lot like your mystery duck
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I always love your informative trips to the Kansas ocean.
ReplyDeleteLoveys Sasha
We love coming along with you on your duckie adventures, Zim. Your mom takes the best photos!
ReplyDeleteLove ya lots,
Mitch and Molly