on making friends with the Mallards and others...

Our apartment faces the duck pond. I like to refer to it as lakeside living! On a nice day, it is actually lovely to open up the doors to the patio and look out at the pond and the ducks. It's a regular ole Wild Kingdom living here!! We thought our house backing up to the nature preserve was something! We are not so fond of the pooping machines that are the geese (except for one, the one footed Goose, we feed him and like him), but the ducks are funny! We have two that Zoey wanted to pet and become our friends!

I would like to introduce you to....
Bob and Bobarina! (named by Zoey)




I like their patch of purple feathers.


We told Zoey they would have to get used to her and trust her. So she fed them!



Feeding brings the geese sometimes!



The geese are big and goofy.

But we also have this guy (some sort of heron, maybe?)



I can't get close to him. If he hears me open the door, he flies away! (check out his shadow)


there he is on another day...


Bob and Bobarina came a little closer everyday. They would even knock on our sliding glass doors with their beaks! It would crack me up! They would see us open the doors and come quacking and waddling up!


Here's Bob eating an Easter Jelly Bean!





the funny thing now is, we know them. We can distinguish these two from the others. And they wait for Zoey to come home...





They finally became comfortable enough to get food from Zoey's hand... they even walked inside for a second! They poop alot too though so we shooed them out right away!



Amazing!


The other day I was driving out of the neighborhood and their was a dead duck on the road. I caught myself hoping that it wasn't Bob!

We have squirrels and jumping fish and these cute turtles too!!



enjoying the sun!



making the most of it:)