Wood Duck #Wordless Wednesday #Blurred lines … Mama Wood Duck and ducklings

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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42 Responses to Wood Duck #Wordless Wednesday #Blurred lines … Mama Wood Duck and ducklings

  1. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    August 9, 2023 at 6:50 am

    Aw, you got to see Wood Ducks – they blend into the surroundings quite well, don’t they? Yay for being there to capture the moment!!!

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  2. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    August 9, 2023 at 9:03 am

    I can hear “We Are Family” in the background!

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  3. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    August 9, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Wood ducks are so cute, Linda! Happy Wednesday!

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  4. TD's avatar TD says:
    August 9, 2023 at 12:26 pm

    Was the Wood Duck on your Bucket Bird List Linda? So sweet to see a mama and ducklings! Is the papa there too? I’ve never seen this type of duck. Fun post!

    One of the servers I. The dining room showed me pictures of his pet mallard mama that resides inside in a separated room with 3 cats and a white bunny. The neighbor was trying to get rid of it once she decided that it didn’t make a good pet for her, so the my server friend adopted it. And he showed me a pic of the egg it laid and said it surprised the mama duck. I must ask today our Wine Wednesday if it hatched to a duckling! Yesterday I suggested that the mama mallard needed a plastic baby swimming pool because she must swim…after all she’s a duck!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 9, 2023 at 6:31 pm

      Hi Teri – yes it was on my Birdie Bucket List Teri! I lucked out and really was hoping to see a male with its vibrant plumage, but I won’t disparage this little Mama with her ducklings circling around her. I will keep looking – I saw another Wood Duck a few weeks later at the same venue, but a female with ducklings again.

      I follow the Michigan Duck Rescue and Sanctuary on Facebook. Matt and his wife and a team of volunteers go out to rescue mostly ducks, but also swans and geese when they are injured and they bring them home with them. Home is a huge barn and a pond where they live the rest of their life surrounded by their kin and are loved. Matt shows pictures and videos of them and he does sell duck eggs too. At Heritage Park where I often walk, there is a petting farm and they have white Pekin ducks with blue plastic swimming pools. They go paddling around and love them!

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  5. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com's avatar Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    August 9, 2023 at 12:36 pm

    Haha! When I saw your headline, I thought you meant a wooden decoy duck. I thought it looked pretty realistic. Duh!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 9, 2023 at 6:36 pm

      That is funny Janis and I will one day write a post about ducks in this house … my mom collected ducks and there are wooden duck decoys, whittled wood ducks and a few ceramic ducks, mostly in the country kitchen, but also scattered around the house. I thought this was a Mallard duck and when I sorted thru my photos later I saw the white eye ring and knew it was a Wood Duck. I thought she was having a bad feather day. 🙂

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  6. Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
    August 9, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    Where was Daddy Wood Duck? Too bad he wasn’t around. He is showier than Mama.

    Once when I was running in a park in New Orleans, I saw a mama wood duck and all of her babies plop out of their nest in a hollow tree one by one. Once the babies leave the nest they never return.

    Such cool photos!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 9, 2023 at 6:41 pm

      Thanks Laurie – glad you liked the photos! I wish I had the Daddy Wood Duck too – so much more beautiful than Mama Wood Duck, which I initially thought was a Mama Mallard having a bad feather day. I saw it right away when sorting the photos with the white eye ring. I’ve since seen another family but no male. That would have been a sight to see those babies plopping from the nest one by one. Before I knew about Wood Ducks, I was walking one day near the Park and saw two ducks fly high up into a tree. I’d never seen a duck in a tree before so was taken aback. It was Summer, so I lost track of them in the leaves. They had to be Wood Ducks and I was mad at myself for not seeing them sooner as I still had the camera in my hand.

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    • rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
      August 10, 2023 at 1:54 am

      Such a great & sweet picture. It’s see wood Ducks. Once the babies leave the nest they never return.
      Have a happy day

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  7. AnnMarie R stevens's avatar AnnMarie R stevens says:
    August 9, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    Miss Linda……………………………Wet Mama………………….looks very young herself……………………………and of course all of her ducklings follow her wherever she goes and whatever she does………………………….

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 9, 2023 at 6:43 pm

      That was my first Wood Duck Ann Marie – I was excited to see I had taken a photo of her and her ducklings as I thought she was a Mallard when I saw her at the marsh. I was kind of struck seeing them in a circle around her, instead of the neat queue behind her which you usually see.

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  8. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    August 9, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    Such a sweet picture of domestic bliss! ♡

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 9, 2023 at 6:45 pm

      It sure is Barbara. I didn’t notice it was a Wood Duck while at the marsh, only later when looking at the photos. I was more struck by the fact that her babies were circling her instead of following her in a neat queue like is usually done.

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  9. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    August 10, 2023 at 11:13 am

    I’d guess that blurred lines are what have helped these ducks survive over the decades.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 10, 2023 at 6:32 pm

      Ally, I’m pretty amazed how the feathered critters are surviving these days, from the weather extremes to the water which is either polluted or clogged with green algae goop, yet they paddle merrily through it, nibbling on plants along the way.

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  11. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    August 10, 2023 at 9:47 pm

    Oh, those little ducklings are so precious and cute! Great shots, Linda! 😊

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 11, 2023 at 7:09 pm

      I know they are so cute Tom – it’s difficult to pick between ducklings and goslings (the tiniest ones) – these little bundles of fluff. Glad you liked them Tom. Seeing a Wood Duck was on my Birdie Bucket List for a while now. I was hoping for a male Wood Duck, but this Mom and her young ones makes up for it.

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  12. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    August 10, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    Awe I have never seen the babies in person, lucky you!

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  13. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    August 12, 2023 at 11:00 am

    “Ruffled feathers” comes to mind here 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      August 12, 2023 at 6:27 pm

      Dave, I initially I thought it was a Mama Mallard having a bad feather day. I did the same thing a couple of weeks later with a different family. That white eye ring should have tipped me off. 🙂

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  14. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    August 13, 2023 at 1:55 am

    The male ducks are more colorful! This mama duck looks tired…the little ones wearing her out.

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  15. J P's avatar J P says:
    August 13, 2023 at 10:29 pm

    Wood ducks? They look like real, living ducks to me. 🙂

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