A Beautiful Sublime Sunday - Revisiting a Pond Full of Ducks...

On the last visit to my egg lady's house I had stopped by a nearby pond that was full of a variety of ducks. It was so delightful to see them all on the beautiful landscape so I decided to stop by again to see what ducks were there. Once again I was happy I did for there were a multitude of ducks some busy scooting around the lake, some grooming themselves, some were feeding and some had found a good spot to rest.

There was a band of pink smartweed jutting out into the pond which seemed to attract a lot of ducks.

Two Gadwell Ducks Hiding in the Pink Smartweed

3 Teal Ducks Found a Shallow Spot to Stand

Teal Ducks Head Tucked In Resting In Shallow Waters

Heads Down Bottoms Up Ducks Feeding

Ducks Bottoms Up Feeding

This brigtht eyed golden-eye duck popped up on the scene while the other ducks were bottoms up, it looks like he is whistling at the upside down duck!

Golden-eye Duck Spots Bottoms Up Duck

Golden-eye Duck Swimming in Pink Smartweed

The reflections on the pond really added to the beauty of the scene!

Ducks Swimming Among Beautiful Reflections of the Poplar Trees

Family of Gadwell Ducks Swimming Among Reflections in the Water

Ducks Resting on Fallen Logs Gadwells Feeding

A Couple of Shoveller Ducks and Gadwells Feeding

3 Blue Winged Teal Resting in Shallow Water

Ducks Swimming Through Reflection of Bush on the Water

Family of Gadwells Feeding By Smartweed

Close Up Gladwell Duck and Mature Ducklings

Next to appear on the scene was the Grebes with the interesting markings on their face.

Ducks Feeding Grebe in Background

Pair of Grebes Swimming By Ducks Feeding

Close Up Grebe Stretching It's Wings

Bufflehead Duck Appears on the Scene

Buddleheads are cute little ducks which are fun to watch for they are divers.

Here's a few more photos of them.

Another thing that is cute to see is the ducklings and the Gadwells had their family out swimming.

They were quite close but the mother duck swam them further out into the pond when she saw me watching them.

Gadwell Duck Swimming Ducklings Out Away From Shore

2 Gadwell Duckling Swimming By Reflection of Large Poplar Among the Bright Green Water Plants

Close Up Gadwell Duck and Ducklings Swimming

Duckling Giving It's Belly a Good Grooming

A very active group of ducks and ducklings was this brown headed duck (I'm not sure what kind of duck they are so I'll be doing a search to find out. If any of you know what they are please let me know!)

Funny Brown Headed Duck Scooting Around the Water Surface

I'm not sure what the fellow above was up too but he kept scooting around on the water surface!

This group of ducklings was busy grooming themselves.

Ducks Giving themselves a Good Grooming

I loved the photo below with two of these brown headed ducks stretching their wings

Pair of Ducks With Wings Out Stretched

I stayed for well over an hour snapping pictures before I had to leave. By that time there were more ducks tucking their heads in and resting in the safely of the water.

Ducks Head Tucked in Resting

I hope you enjoyed this visit to the pond, I sure did and only left because I had to catch the store before it closed. It was fascinating to see such variety of ducks with many, oh so busy!

Bird images are for the #FeatheredFriends community hosted by @melinda010100

This is my Amazing Nature Contest August 2020 - #04 entry. See details here

Big shout out to @ace108 for running the Beautiful Sunday tag every week supporting the accounts. Also to @c0ff33a for the Sublime Sunday tag for your random Sunday posts!
The photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS.

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