While I was awandering....

[donutsweeper]

I've been trying to take a lot of walks to get some exercise and one of the places I've been walking is a trail around a pond/marsh. This time of year there are always lots of babies so I brought my camera along to take pictures!

What I thought was interesting was the difference in size among all the different Canadian Geese goslings. All these photos were taken last Wednesday.

one of the middle sized guys:


A little one:



I didn't get pictures of all the different sizes, but here are various ones with their parents, compare how different they all are:







And just because they are cute the lone mallard family there:

Comments

[haldane.livejournal.com]

I suspect a very few days makes a great deal of difference in size, working under the asssumption that all the eggs hatch at 'about the same time'.

My son's class had an incubator and a dozen chook eggs for a while; they got to name the chicks as they hatched (the black one got dubbed 'Darth Vader') and did daily weighings.

(cannot find chicken icon, settles for owl)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, how sweet!

When would I not want to see baby ducks and geese? :)

They're adorable!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

So. Very. Cute. Floofy baby birds ftw.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Honk! Honk!

Very cute.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh. Goslings! Ducklings! Thank you for sharing. I love them. And I'm glad you have pleasant places to walk to! Good for you for keeping it up. :)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

What lovely pictures - thank you for sharing these.

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

Bless! We have swans and mallards, but no geese. They're so fluffy!

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Eee! Fuzzy baby birds!

Thanks so much for posting these.