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I got to Lettuce Lake Park right when they opened at 8am. The moon was still up and I could see vultures circling near the moon. I hadn’t been to this park in a long time since I moved farther away. It was mid-November and I wasn’t expecting to find anything new but I had heard there were black bellied whistling ducks babies and thought that would be fun to see them if I could find them in this big park.
I didn’t see a lot of birds when I first started walking but then I found this great blue heron in one corner of the boardwalk. As I was taking his picture I saw something floating farther behind him that looked like ducks.
I found a black bellied whistling duck family with older babies. They were dabbling around in the water and one of the young babies was trying to nap but eventually he joined his siblings.
I walked a little farther down the boardwalk and found some younger babies. These guys were young enough to still look a little like floating bumble bees. They were all sitting on a big stump in the water but looked like they were going in for a swim.
Once the other parent got in the water they all started jumping in after her. They were pretty far back in the swamp and looked like they were heading farther back so I walked back to the other family.
The older babies were closer to the boardwalk and they were so busy feeding.
And I was back to the little babies. They were climbing back up on the stump but didn’t stay there long. I spent quite a while running back and forth between the two families. The younger babies eventually swam farther back in the swamp so it was time to head home.
Across the swamp I could see a tall cypress tree that had turned into an ibis tree. I guess they were going to take a mid-morning nap up there.
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