LIFE'S A BEACH!

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby
    edited August 2013

    I'd like to tuck my beak under my wing and take a nice nap on the water (though it's too cold for that today (for me), here in Seattle.)

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  • heymoose
    heymoose
    edited August 2013

    Happy Birthday Marlegal and many, many more!!!!!!

    Meece and Lisa what great pics! 

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  • coonie
    coonie
    edited August 2013

    I'm also glad to know its not me with ipad issues.



    Great to see you too Marlegal!!!!! Hope you had a wondermously great day!!!



    Hope you all have a great night!!!!

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  • marlegal
    marlegal
    edited August 2013

    Thanks for the bday wishes. It was a really good one :)



    Love the swan. Is there anything more graceful and elegant looking?



    Heading to the campground this weekend so hopefully will get a good beach shot.



    Barbe, I'm drooling over that lunch menu!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958
    edited August 2013

    Lisa, hopefully that gosling will grow into his beak!! What a honker!!!

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    actually it is a duck

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby
    edited August 2013

    oh good.  thought I was going crazy...  :)

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958
    edited August 2013

    Ahh, that's why it's beak is so big!! I've never seen a pure white duck before!!! Thought it was a swan, actually......

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  • Meece
    Meece
    edited August 2013

    It's probably a Pekin Duck.  I used to have a lot of them.  It could also be the Aflac duck, after all he's recovering from a beak injury!

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    Here come hisPhoto buddies..

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958
    edited August 2013

    Didn't even think of Peking Duck!! We just don't have them flying around here, that's all. That HAS to be the Aflac duck...hehehehehhee.

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  • Meece
    Meece
    edited August 2013

    Barb, If it is a PekinG duck he's in more trouble than we thought! (Peking duck is the "national dish" of China, Pekin duck is a breed of duck used for meat and eggs.)

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958
    edited August 2013

    Thanks!!! I did NOT know that!! Gee, what you don't learn on a breast cancer discussion board!!!! hehehehehhehehehehee

    (I knew Peking duck was a dish, but I thought they just used Peking ducks!!)

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  • Meece
    Meece
    edited August 2013

    I thought they were the same as well.  That is until I started raising poultry.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    We have lots of these white ducks in the ponds around here

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    We also have a resident goose at the nearby little lake

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    a white heron

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    least bittern

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    a blue heron

    a  blPhotoue heron

    and a snowy egret

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    to name  a few..very active little lake..

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  • Marple
    Marple
    edited August 2013

    Hahaha, that white goose looks like he has post-chemo feathers.  That's quite a 'do'.

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  • Marple
    Marple
    edited August 2013

    Coonie!  Good to see you, this one's for you.

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  • marlegal
    marlegal
    edited August 2013

    Loving those pics Lisa. Very odd day here...a few clouds, a few storms, some sun...you name it! No bay shots tonight but tomorrow is supposed to be gorgeous so hoping for some good sunset pics. Stay tuned

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  • coonie
    coonie
    edited August 2013

    Great googa mooga!!!!! I was enjoying the pics of the beautiful white ducks and I LOVE the Aflac duck:). Then I started thinking about good ole # 32. Lololol and there she is. Of course she would look better with Sharon at the wheel.....LOLOL. Thanks Lovey! I needed to see that "duck". Lol



    Marlegal sure hope your weekend has turned out to be picture perfect. Clouds make some nice pics too:)



    >Hope you all have a wondermously brilllll Sunday!!!!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958
    edited August 2013

    That is the MESSIEST goose I have ever seen!!!  (very pretty, though) Of course I'm used to Canadian Geese which are polite and neat. And our swans are well-groomed, too.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    Barbe, I think the little lake or big pond is on the migratory path..we get Canadian geese

    white pelicans too..

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa
    edited August 2013

    Oh, I can't forget this one

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  • Wren44
    Wren44
    edited August 2013

    Barbe, yes, Canadian Geese are nice and neat, but they sure don't pick up their poop. A couple of local beaches have hired hyper dogs to run around and keep them off.

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  • Owain
    Owain
    edited August 2013

    My dog would pick up the poop.

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  • Owain
    Owain
    edited August 2013

    .

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958
    edited August 2013

    Here on the golf course they hire the dogs and also use "bombs" to scare the geese away from nesting too close to the actual course. The bombs sound stupidly crazy, a mix between a bear alarm and fireworks. Scares the shit out of the golfers!!! hehehehehehehe  My DH is a Marshall on the course we live on and he sees the reactions every year. They really should warm the golfers that day that the bombs will be going off!!!! It's not to hurt the geese, just to drive them further into the rough and out of bounds so they don't get harassed by (or harass!!) the golfers when they're breeding. You don't want to piss off a goose!

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  • marlegal
    marlegal
    edited August 2013

    What an absolutely perfect day here at Hideaway Beach. One of those days where I just said over and over to myself how lucky/blessed I am to have this little piece of heaven available to me so many weekends a year. Sharing two shots ... one during the day when we had a snowy egret and a white heron fishing together (different color beaks, that's how we knew it wasn't just a big and a little of the same bird!), and then a sunset pic. We came home in between and had dinner! Yup...today is definitely one of those "thank you God" days in my world. Hope it was for many of you too.

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  • marlegal
    marlegal
    edited August 2013

    And here's sunset

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