Rödluvan and the ducks in the cold
Part 11
30 March -   3 April 2009
 
Me standing by the bridge. It was snowing  again. It was sleet. If you look at the green of the pine tree you can see the sleet coming down. 2009-04-03.
2009-03-30. The injured duck came flying to me again and got food.
2009-03-30. He was flying to the side of the bridge with the bread in hus beak. But the other ducks were looking at him.......
2009-03-30. They were walking to him. And the poor injured duck could not walk away.
2009-03-30. They attacked him and went flapping with his wings.
2009-03-30. The female on the bridge railing was rather curious to see what was going on.
2009-03-30. Here you can see that the injured duck looks tangled. But the ducks did not get the bread. I gave it to the injured duck. I felt so sorry for this duck.
2009-03-30. Fortunately Quackely was a healthy duck. She was looking at me.
2009-03-30. The ducks on the ground got food.
2009-03-30. Then suddenly:
FLAP, FLAP, FLAP, FLAP, FLAP, FLAP!!

The red hooded woman came with her white dog. Again the ducks were scared of this little harmless dog that did not do anything. The dog was just walking. Crazy ducks.

2009-03-30. The ducks on the path saw me.
2009-03-30. They were walking after me again.
2009-03-31. The squirrel in the woods by work had his lunch.
2009-03-31. When people were walking on the little parking lot to the park, the ducks did not react. But when I came, they run to me while she still was on the parking lot.
2009-03-31. The injured duck was flying to me again
2009-03-31. Here he got another bit.
2009-03-31. Here he was flying so high so he almost landed on my hood :-)
2009-03-31. This was better, now he could take the bread.
2009-03-31. Quack-quack and Quackely were on the bridge again.
2009-03-31. Quack-quack, quack, quack, quack-quack! Quackely was biting him and said: "Be silent Quack-quack."
2009-03-31. Quack-quack was so eager to get bread so he tipped over the railing.
2009-03-31. Now the whole gang was on the bridge again. The jackdaw was also there.
2009-03-31. The jackdaw was waiting for little crumbs that the big ducks left.
2009-03-31. Ducks eating on the path.
2009-03-31. It was cold this day too and there was more ice in the pond. I made a little walk to the other side of the park.
2009-03-31. Then the ducks were walking with me . This looked so funny :-)
2009-03-31. Ducks on the snow wall.
2009-03-31. This jackdaw was flying up in the tree near the pond. And should land on a twig. But the twig was to thin and then the jackdaw felt down from the tree and was landing in the snow.

Here he is sitting and was rather confused.

2009-04-01. Quackely and Quack-quack in the sunlight. The sun was reflecting in the water.
2009-04-01. Yummy :-)
2009-04-01. Quackely tried to chase Quack-quack to get his bread.
2009-04-01.  A beautiful male.
2009-04-01. These ducks got food.
2009-04-01. A man came and put out a small pieces of bread in the snow. This duck saw it.
2009-04-01. Soon the other ducks saw it too and were eating.
2009-04-01. Ducks sleeping on the bridge. They did not care when people were passing by.
2009-04-01. Suddenly I saw a male begging for food. He could not walk so well
2009-04-01. I was thinking about the duck with the injured leg. But then I saw it was the duck with the injured foot who I had seen January 30. I gave him bread
2009-04-01. He was looking so thankful to me.
2009-04-01. His tail looked a little better as before. But he still could not walk well.
2009-04-01.  The other ducks came and were faster to get the food.
2009-04-01. I tried to throw the food as near to him as she could.
2009-04-01.  He was looking to me again. I wished that she could learn him to fly up to me. Like the other injured duck did.
2009-04-01. He sat down. He could not stand up a long while.
2009-04-01. And there he was sitting in the middle of the bike path. A bike could run into him and hurt him more.
2009-04-01. I tried to chase away him carefully. But he did not move so much
2009-04-01. Then Rödluvan said: "GO AWAY FROM THE BIKE PATH!"
2009-04-01. Then he moved and flew to the water. And I saw he could fly well.
2009-04-02. The squirrel in the woods by work was running in the snow.
2009-04-02. Here two squirrels were eating the seed that was on the ground.
2009-04-02. The ducks were looking at the bike. But they were used with bikes.
2009-04-02. I was feeding the duck beside the creek. Then the others came waking on the path to her.
2009-04-02. Quack-quack got food. In the background you can see the creek.
2009-04-02. It looks like Quack-quack and Quackely are kissing again.
2009-04-02. Quack-quack and Quackely were still eating. Then another male was flying up for bread. But he missed the railing and then:

BONK!
He was landing on the side of the railing.

2009-04-02. The injured duck got food again but he dropped the bread.
2009-04-02. A wolf (dog) was coming over the bridge with his dad. Then there were no ducks on the bridge, they flew away. But the ducks who were near me stayed. But they were watching the dog well.
2009-04-03. Ducks near and under the bridge.
2009-04-03. Ducks on the path beside the creek
2009-04-03. Quackely got bread. She had a little snow on her backs.
2009-04-03. Ducks near the creek who were eating.
2009-04-03. Ducks coming to me.
2009-04-03. This duck got white spots of the snow on his feathers
2009-04-03. And I got white spots on my hood.
Wilhelmina Schedin. 2016-03-10