Green Foxy's summer 70
2013

Ducks, ducklings, gulls and baby gulls

I always feel so happy when I'm with the ducks. I like ducks. They are so funny.

When I come with bread, they are  swimming and flying to me.

Sometimes they are so tame so they are standing on my shoes when I feed them. And walking or swimming after me when I go around the pond.

This picture of me was taken by the pond at campus

2013-06-03. I came to the little pond at Campus and saw that the duck mother also this year had ducklings.
2013-06-03. There were 8 ducklings.
2013-06-03. One of the ducklings. Aw, so cute :)
2013-06-03. The ducklings liked my bread. Here one of them was eatin it.
2013-06-03. The mother with two of her ducklings.
2013-06-03. They walked in the grass.
2013-06-03. The mother told it was better to stay in the water.
2013-06-03.
2013-06-03. They walked back to the water.
2013-06-03.  Following the mother.
2013-06-03. I fed them while they were in the water.
2013-06-03. A lovely duck family.
2013-06-03. I also walked to the big pond. There the adult ducks were swimming. A male.
2013-06-03. Here the male and female together.
2013-06-03. The sky became black. I hurried home. But there did not come that day.
2013-06-08. Today it was sunny. I walked to the little pond again. The duck an ducklings were still there.
2013-06-08. And all 8 ducklings were alive.
2013-06-08. Cute :)
2013-06-08. The mother said: "Quack", she was begging  for food.
2013-06-08.
2013-06-08. I also fed the ducklings.
2013-06-08. Peek-a-boo! :-)
2013-06-08. Another cute duckling.
2013-06-08. The mother was watching her ducklings all the time.
2013-06-08. The little pond.
2013-06-08. The mother with one duckling.
2013-06-08. There is a bridge over the creek.
2013-06-08. This is a small creek.
2013-06-08. I walked to the big pond. Some ducks were on land begging food.
2013-06-08. Soon this male will loose his nice coat. In summer his feathers are falling off and he will look the same as the females. In autumn he will get a new coat again.
2013-06-08. Some ducks came swimming to me.
2013-06-08. There were nice white clouds in the sky.
2013-06-08. The forget-me-not were growing by the pond again. There were a lot of them.
2013-06-08. A closer picture of the forget-me-not.

Gulls with babies.

2013-06-08. When I walked around the big pond I heard two gulls screaming. One of them on the photo.
2013-06-08. Soon I found out the reason. They had 2 babies. These were sitting in the grass beside the pond.
2013-06-08. Gulls be aggravated if you come near the babies. But I was not afraid. I had my cap on and my hood over my cap. The brim of my cap was peeping out from my. If a gull should fly too near me she should run into the brim. Here you see the gull in an attack position.
2013-06-08. I passed careful. And went over a bridge. Here I could see both the gulls an babies.
2013-06-08. The mother was sitting on a low lamp post. Here she could watch the area better.
2013-06-08. I could take pictures of the babies with the telephoto lens.
2013-06-08. The babies were so cute.
2013-06-08. Now the gull was on the path
2013-06-08. Here she was feeding her baby.
2013-06-08. I like this picture so much. Such nice "Mother and child" picture.
2013-06-08. More cuteness.
2013-06-08. There came a man waking on the path. He was attacked too. I painted over his face. I will not show people if the don't  know about it. Under the black X you can see the gull attacking the man.

Later I had a nice talk with this man. He had not seen there were babies were.

2013-06-13. She still was watching.
2013-07-07. I called her  "The angry gull", because she was so aggravated when she watched her babies.
2013-07-07. But later this gull stopped be aggravated to me. I'm sure she understood I should not harm her babies.
2013-06-08. I stayed a long time by the pond. It was so interesting to watch the gulls. And the weather was nice this day.
 
Wilhelmina Schedin 2017-06-09