Wood Ducks are temperamental little creatures. Or maybe I should say Schizophrenic? Whatever you want to call it, I really didn’t expect the “discussion” I was witness to yesterday morning.
I was minding my own business, just waiting for a wood duck chick parade to come by. Birds are hatching now so it’s not too unusual to see a family of chicks lined up behind Mom just enjoying their new life. I didn’t see the chicks, but a lone hen wood duck began swimming in my general direction. Now I only have 5 or 6 thousand wood duck images already, but what’s a few extra electrons on my memory card? Or so I thought. As the first hen neared a small patch of Lily pads, another hen who was hidden in the Lily pads came out and just lit into this poor hen! It looked like Friday Night Wrestling as they glared at each other and squared off.
And so it begins……
They sure weren’t acting like ladies!!!
And the poor Merganser in the lower left is just trying to mind her own business!!!
The next two images are basically all I could see for several seconds as the water was flying everywhere!
Just a difference of opinion…..
Coming up for air!!!
This whole episode only lasted for about a minute, at most. Then they both stopped as fast as they started, apparently none the worse for wear. You just can’t make this crap up!
Like nothing had ever happened!
After it was over, the “winner” got up on a log to show the rest of the swamp who was the baddest duck in the swamp!
It’s good to be the Queen!!
And she kept running her mouth for the next ten minutes to make sure everybody knew it!!
If a big mouth was money in the bank, she’d be a millionaire!!!
More to come, thanks for looking!!!
