Nugget meets ice; ice wins.
Poor Nugget, we had our first hard freeze and all the water outside was frozen in the waterers and the duck pools. Nugget has a habit of hopping up on the edge of the pools to get a drink and when he did that this morning he got a big surprise, a very embarrassing surprise.
Blue and the Ladies were standing around the pool staring at the ice and Nugget walked over and hopped up onto the rim, which evidently had a light coating of ice on it too. His feet slipped and he did a face-plant on the ice of the pool and slide across it on his face, neck, and chest, his head hit the other side of the pool and he did a back-flip over the edge and landed on his butt on the ground. The others were looking at him in a way I've yet to figure out how to describe. He hopped up, shook out his feathers and walked away shaking his head several times. I had to catch him to make sure he hadn't hurt his neck or anything when his head caught the side of the pool! The only thing hurt was the big guys pride though. I really felt badly for him!