01.26.2010

SNOW Eggs!

Seeing that this is my first winter with ducks, I have determined that snow eggs may be  harder to find than even hidden eggs.  Really now, can you see an egg in this mess of white?

snow-eggs

egg-in-snow

Luckily, or not, the girls quit laying eggs after our last crazy snowstorm.   This was the last egg and we haven’t seen one since.  I guess I can understand their confusion and frustration.  No grass, no worms, no mud, no large masses of water.  What IS there to do around here?

ducks-in-snow-drift

They hunker down in snow drifts.

single-file-cha-cha

Use one trail to go back and forth down the yard which looks to me something like a cha-cha.

ducks-at-kitchen-door

Peek through the kitchen door to see what leftovers might be coming their way.

ducks-on-the-deck

Continously poop all over my deck!  I try to chase them off, but they don’t seem too scared.

who-me

And then they give me this look and cock their neck, “Who, ME?”