- Apr 22, 2014
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Hello all. I've been a member of this site for a while and when I was a "young dad" everything was new and exciting and I did quite a bit of posting. Now everything is "been there, done that", but still can be exciting, I'm just not so prone to post everything. This had lead to a long lapse in me posting anything and once in a while it is nice to post a pic and to touch base with all of you in Duckland.
So I decided since I really don't have daily events that I feel like posting a whole new thread for anymore, I would post a single thread for random ramblings and pictures and a place where people might find me. Also this will serve as proof that I am still maintaining my flock and did not give them to @duluthralphie to make dux stew out of.
I just updated my duck house with 4 new cameras (they are getting so inexpensive these days). Two internal, one into the kennel, and one into the area behind the house where the dux love to hide so they can avoid all the other cameras.
These are really handy on days like today where It is fairly cold outside, and I don't feel like going out and letting the ducks out yet. I can look at the cameras, and see that they are still in the house rather than having gone out into the kennel, and say, "Good! They think it's too cold to go out too, so I'll just sit down, have a cup of coffee and make a post on BYC." I'll let them out when it is a little warmer. I think they decide based on a balancing act between the sun and the wind... When the sun is warm enough to counter the wind, they go outside.
So here is a scaled down version of the two interior cams. They give me 100% coverage of the house and I can positively identify each duck (except for Tella and Ettie who I can barely identify in person).
And here is a full-size picture of the area where this thread got its title from:
I guess you could say this is Tevye and his circle of friends
Starting with Tevye and going clockwise, this is Entie, Kaine, Rhiannon, Mystique, and I think Ettie. That is maybe Tella and Noir in the upper right with them, and then in the other picture going from Mystique to the duck door, is Latte, Greta (standing), Roxette (lying down), Pocahontas (standing) and Dove in the corner by the door.
Well, I just checked on them again, they are still in the house but are starting to mull around the door, I'll go out and open their kennel and they'll start their day.
So I decided since I really don't have daily events that I feel like posting a whole new thread for anymore, I would post a single thread for random ramblings and pictures and a place where people might find me. Also this will serve as proof that I am still maintaining my flock and did not give them to @duluthralphie to make dux stew out of.
I just updated my duck house with 4 new cameras (they are getting so inexpensive these days). Two internal, one into the kennel, and one into the area behind the house where the dux love to hide so they can avoid all the other cameras.
These are really handy on days like today where It is fairly cold outside, and I don't feel like going out and letting the ducks out yet. I can look at the cameras, and see that they are still in the house rather than having gone out into the kennel, and say, "Good! They think it's too cold to go out too, so I'll just sit down, have a cup of coffee and make a post on BYC." I'll let them out when it is a little warmer. I think they decide based on a balancing act between the sun and the wind... When the sun is warm enough to counter the wind, they go outside.
So here is a scaled down version of the two interior cams. They give me 100% coverage of the house and I can positively identify each duck (except for Tella and Ettie who I can barely identify in person).
And here is a full-size picture of the area where this thread got its title from:
I guess you could say this is Tevye and his circle of friends
Starting with Tevye and going clockwise, this is Entie, Kaine, Rhiannon, Mystique, and I think Ettie. That is maybe Tella and Noir in the upper right with them, and then in the other picture going from Mystique to the duck door, is Latte, Greta (standing), Roxette (lying down), Pocahontas (standing) and Dove in the corner by the door.
Well, I just checked on them again, they are still in the house but are starting to mull around the door, I'll go out and open their kennel and they'll start their day.
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