Thursday, April 06, 2023

Little ducks all in a row

 Fourteen buffleheads:

Five males, with their nine female followers.

And nine buffleheads:

10 seconds later.

And next, there were none. But patience is the key; soon they all popped up, one after the other. And then went down again. Up, and down again.

And all the while, they stayed in line, and the line advanced, straight as an arrow heading for the entrance to the lagoon. Underwater or on top of it, the speed never slacked, their approximate relative positions held true, a white-crowned male in front (not seen in the second photo; he's underwater), 4 little females bringing up the rear.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Catorce porrones coronados:
Fotos:
  1. Los catorce; cinco porrones machos, y nueve seguidoras.
  2. 10 segundos más tarde, hay nueve.
Y después de unos segundos, no había ni uno. Pero, ¡paciencia! En un minuto, todos aparecieron de nuevo, uno tras otro. Y luego se sumergieron otra vez. Y subieron a la superficie. Y luego desaparecieron, y asi iban.

Y siempre se mantuvieron en fila, y el desfile avanzaba, derecho como una flecha, apuntada hacia la boca de la laguna. Estuvieran bajo el agua o encima, no cambiaba su velocidad, y sus lugares en la fila se preservaban, con un macho con su corona blanca en frente, — no se ve en la segunda foto porque está sumergido — y cuatro hembras en la cola.


No comments:

Post a Comment

I'm having to moderate all comments because Blogger seems to have a problem notifying me. Sorry about that. I will review them several times daily, though, until this issue is fixed.

Also, I have word verification on, because I found out that not only do I get spam without it, but it gets passed on to anyone commenting in that thread. Not cool!

Powered By Blogger