Almost certainly all hers. My son was traumatized at a young age by watching one mother duck kill a duckling from another brood by pecking and drowning. They're very territorial.
Rick --- On Sat, 7/17/10, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's one from my nature walk this > morning. Not much exotic in the > fauna category, but it's always fun to watch a duck and her > ducklings > toodling about a pond: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/keeping-close-watch.html > > Actually I wonder if they're all hers: I counted as > many as eight > ducklings in one of the frames. Could she have > "adopted" some > orphans? Maybe she's babysitting whilst a friend > "sleeps on off"? > > ;-) > > *istD, M200mm f4.0, Manfrotto monopod. > > Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
