Babies have arrived! Pics! And now with video!

[Julie Birb]

I love imagining how rock formations showed up! I live next to the Colorado National Monument, and it's like seeing a freeze-frame in time of the rocks morphing.
Ducks just do it a lot faster.

BTW, here's a picture I took a few years ago just a couple of miles from my house:



You can see where the ground lifted up and BENT the rock.

So, random and off topic. I now return you to your regularly scheduled ducks.

Also: Zoom in on that picture, it's completely awesome.

Heehee, regularly scheduled ducks. But that picture of the bent up rock formation is beautiful and a great analogy to our discussion about duck development.

 

[WVduckchick]

I love imagining how rock formations showed up! I live next to the Colorado National Monument, and it's like seeing a freeze-frame in time of the rocks morphing.
Ducks just do it a lot faster.

BTW, here's a picture I took a few years ago just a couple of miles from my house:



You can see where the ground lifted up and BENT the rock.

So, random and off topic. I now return you to your regularly scheduled ducks.

Also: Zoom in on that picture, it's completely awesome.

That is a breathtaking photo! I know my WV mountains are a bit different from the CO mountains, but the formations and the reasons behind the formations are both very interesting, for sure!

 

[Kaessa]

That is a breathtaking photo! I know my WV mountains are a bit different from the CO mountains, but the formations and the reasons behind the formations are both very interesting, for sure!

WV mountains are a LOT older than CO mountains. On a geologic scale, Colorado mountains are pretty fresh and new. And thank you!

 

[Kaessa]

Ducks in a bucket. Well, a tote, but still. This is post-bath, waiting for me to finish putting the brooder back together.

 

[Julie Birb]

Ducks in a bucket. Well, a tote, but still. This is post-bath, waiting for me to finish putting the brooder back together.

Kaessa, do you have any idea how cute they are in the tote?

 

[WVduckchick]

WV mountains are a LOT older than CO mountains. On a geologic scale, Colorado mountains are pretty fresh and new. And thank you!

My first husband is a mining engineer, so he explained to me a lot about how the WV mountains were formed. Mostly ocean pressure! WV = Coal, so its very interesting how each seam formed years ago, and how much they can tell about how the world was, just by looking at layers of the land.

Ducks in a bucket. Well, a tote, but still. This is post-bath, waiting for me to finish putting the brooder back together.

Mine were in a tote just like that for their brooder... for about 5 days... they kinda outgrew it quickly! haha. Now its their pool/bathtub for another week or two.

 

[WVduckchick]

How did you get them to hold still for this?

(someone sent this to me on face book and I immediately thought of your foursome!)

 

[Julie Birb]

How did you get them to hold still for this? (someone sent this to me on face book and I immediately thought of your foursome!)

I have just about had it. Where are those sweeties. I need to kiss them.

 

[Kaessa]

How did you get them to hold still for this?

(someone sent this to me on face book and I immediately thought of your foursome!)

OMG that is the cutest thing ever.

 

[Kaessa]

Question: Is the bare spot on the back of Harley's neck normal? It doesn't look irritated or anything, and you can only really see it when she's a bit damp. You can see it really well at about 1:10 in the video. I was thinking it's fuzz falling out for new feathers, because I can feel all the pinfeathers coming in all over her. Nobody seems to be picking at her, and I think Pepper has the same thing going on, but it's harder to see because her skin is black.