#ducks

2 little ducks. (Quack Quack, for those who play bingo 😀) In Diglis Basin in Worcester (UK)
They seemed miffed when I didn't have any food for them.
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Communication is an essential part of all relations, be it for countries or people or even animals.

Good morning. 🦆🪿🦢

12 September 2026

Charlie just plopped down outside my office door on the wood floor, and I heard every bit of it. The funny thing is, when he walks across the wood flooring — even when there’s a rug — he sounds like a small herd of horses trotting through the house. When my daughter visited last, she kept asking, “Do you hear him?” I guess we’re used to it. To us, it’s a comforting sound.

Anyway, I knew exactly how I wanted to start this morning, but I forgot while I was working on the photograph. Now I’m just hoping the thought circles back.

Oh yeah — productivity.

I’m determined not to turn on the TV in the morning so I can actually get things done. The problem starts at lunchtime. I need to eat, and when I fix my lunch — usually a salad these days — I sit down in my recliner and turn on the news. If the news is dull or just plain depressing, I’ll stream a movie or a show instead. That’s where I get stuck. If what I’m watching is good, I’m already in the chair, already finished with lunch, so what’s the harm in leaning back for a few minutes to finish the episode?

But modern shows always leave some little hook dangling at the end, just enough to make you want to see what happens next. And with streaming services offering entire multi‑season series, it’s possible to get trapped for six seasons straight. I often break the cycle through sheer willpower — reach for the remote and shut the TV off cold turkey. Unfortunately, that usually leads to the next thought: “How about a nap before I get busy?”

“Home is not a place, it’s a feeling.” — Cecelia Ahern

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

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Nach der Mauser führt der Mandarinenten-Erpel sein aufgefrischtes Federkleid aus ❤️

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Another walk on the Yarra River Trail today brings some fluffy new family members to the area. Here we have some Australian Wood Ducklings foraging through the grassy riverbank, with (I believe, based on the feathering) mumma in the background.

Passers by were happily observing and quietly snapping shots of the family of at least 8 ducklings plus the two parents. Aside from a small Mynah close by that was flying about and being a bit of a nuisance, the ducks and ducklings where largely unbothered by their celebrity status and were much more interested in what they could find on the ground.

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Yarra River Trail, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Einer der Schlossparkschwäne... ❤️

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Good morning. 🪿🪿🪿

4 September 2026

It’s almost 0800 hours and I don’t have a single thought in my head. I try, but all I get is a mild, relaxed feeling settling just above my brow. The meds? Maybe. At my age I take what I jokingly call a handful a couple of times a day, though that’s only a slight exaggeration.

What’s interesting is that I haven’t even reached the next hurdle yet—75—where I’ve heard things get even more “interesting.” They say the changes of aging become more noticeable. I came across the word stooped and would prefer to avoid that if possible. I’m sure the changes aren’t uniform across the population, but my goal is to stave off whatever I can for as long as I can.

Well, look at that. I had a thought after all.

Charlie and I just got back from our morning walk, and now I’m kicked back with my feet on the desk, sipping coffee and settling in. My mind is clearer than it was before we set out. A brisk few miles gets the blood moving and the old neurons firing.

Last night I watched a werewolf movie. I hesitate to call it low‑budget, but there were only four actors and almost the entire story took place inside a small travel trailer. There were two werewolves—both women—and one of them technically transformed, though she ran off into the woods, so the special effects were basically nonexistent. I can’t believe I watched the whole thing waiting for a werewolf that never really arrived. There’s a reason I can’t recall the title. Still, the acting wasn’t terrible.

That’s plenty of mental meandering for today.

“My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.” - Anne Lamott

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is too short for bad coffee and bad movies.” — Unknown

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Some Wood ducks swamping about

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Quack.

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Yarra River Trail, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

mother and children.

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📍George H. Sparks Reservoir, GA

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Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) at Lake Thunderbird in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on July 7, 2026

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026Aug14_birds_and_cats/IMG_6124c_2026jul07_duck.html

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The exterminators

Stellenbosch, South Africa
Indian Runner Ducks are herded to forage for aphids, worms and snails at the Vergenoegd wine farm. Every morning, 1,000 long-necked ducks are let loose on a South African wine farm to gobble up insects in an environmentally friendly method of pest control that is gaining popularity.

Photograph: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images

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#ducks

I took Friday off from work after a week of being oncall. Instead of acting like a reasonable middle-aged adult and sleeping in, I got up at 3 AM and drove 4 hours to Olympic National Park to take pictures.

My original plan was to go sit on Rialto Beach for a couple hours and take some surf video, but apparently the only road to the beach is closed until October. Oops. I probably should have checked that.

I was on a bit of a tight timeline (I needed to be home by 4 PM), and I didn't really have enough time to drive an extra hour south to Ruby Beach, which would normally be my second-choice beach. So I went inland instead, and ended up spending most of an hour just watching 5 female Common Mergansers swim around in the Sol Duc river just below a small waterfall.

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#SilentSaturday

📍George H. Sparks Reservoir

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