Day: 2020-06-13

Ducklings day 10

Today at the duck house, let’s all take a peek at the ducklings… including Bert.

Site note: I have tagged this year’s duckling posts as ducklings 2020, making it easier to see just the duckling posts (without the flock posts and such) for this year.

And you can even see them in chronological order (i.e. oldest to newest) via this link.

On with the show.

Let’s peek at the ducklings through a nesting box (look at that tiny wing nub on the Buff!):

Ducklings

Some fresh straw:

Ducklings

Ducklings

Ducklings

Wading in the dish; you can see droplets of water on their backs, as the fling the water everywhere. It’ll get even more damp in there once they have the paint tray pool:

Ducklings

Ducklings

Did you see the video of Bert trying to peek at the ducklings? When I did my afternoon rounds, I grabbed some spare bricks and added some below the maintenance door, so Bert could more successfully peek at the ducklings, which he did:

Bert peeking at ducklings

Bert peeking at ducklings

Bert peeking at ducklings

Cam view:

Bert peeking at ducklings

I think it’ll be good for all of them to see each other, so things go more smoothly when they can interact in the pond in a month or so.

Cat update for week ending June 13

For Caturday this week, 5.25 cabin pictures, 3.25 cat house pictures, 2 shop pictures, 1.25 outside and feeder pictures, 1 breezeway picture, 1 GIF and 1 still from that, and 1 picture out a window. Just some totally irrelevant numbers.

Three cats at the cabins:

Cabin cats

Poppa and Pommie in the breezeway:

Breezeway cats

Cat snuggles:

Cat snuggles

Three cats in the feeder; the SD card in the feeder has stopped working (like the cat house one did recently); I don’t know if I’ll bother trying to fix it, so this might be the last picture from the feeder (though it is recorded by the Camect server, so probably not):

Feeder cats

Porcini closeup with the cabin cats:

Cabin cats

More cat snuggles:

Cat snuggles

Cat stalking a bird on the driveway, as it got away:

Cat chasing bird

A GIF of that:

GIF of cat chasing bird

One of the twins in the lavender plants by our front steps, as seen from a window:

Cat by front steps

Pepper watching me closely in the shop; she wanted to get past, but that would have meant getting within six feet of me; she’s an expert at social distancing:

Cat in shop

So she retreated and waited for me to depart:

Cat in shop

Super-relaxed cabin cat:

Cabin cat

Two cats snuggling, one looking out the door:

Cat snuggles

Four cats:

Four cats

Screenshot of four cats (two in cabins, two in the house):

Four cats

A startled greeting at the cabins:

Cabin cats

Some symmetry, both in this picture, and with the first picture in today’s post:

Cabin cats