Beautiful Sublime Sunday - New Pond, New Ducks...

Going to get my fresh farm eggs, I decided to stop and check out a nearby pond to see if there was any waterfowl there.

Checking Out a Pond for Waterfowl

To my delight the far side was load with all different kinds of ducks, some of which I am still trying to identify. Perhaps you can help me if you recognize some of the ducks that I haven't named.

We have had a very wet year this year and in this pond there was a treed island that had been partially submerged killing the trees but making an excellent spot for the ducks to feed around and to rest on.

Once Treed Island Submerged Makes Excellent Feeding and Resting Grounds for Ducks

Ducks Resting on Partially Submerged Trees

With the submerged land just below the surface it made it look like the ducks were standing on water

Ducks Grooming and Resting on Slightly Submerged Land Base

It was funny to see so many ducks bottom up feeding but showed what an abundance of food the newly submerged area was providing for those ducks.

Ducks Bottom Up Feeding

Also close to those partially submerged trees were a band of pink flowering water plants which I later discovered are probably the Water Smartweed (Persicaria amphibia). They were so beautiful and seemed to be attracting the ducks.

Multitude of Different Variety of Ducks Swimming, Feeding by Band of Water Plants - Water Smartweed (Persicaria amphibia)

Heads Down or Bottoms Up Ducks Feeding Near Pink Flowering Smartweed

Close Up Pair of Ducks Bottoms Up Feeding

Those two ducks that were bottoms up were shoveller ducks.

Pair of Shoveller Duck Swimming in Pink Flowering Water Plants

3 Shoveller Ducks Swimming in Pink Flowering Smartweed Unknown Duck in Foreground

The weed beds seemed to be a good place for feeding as you see these Teal ducks doing.

Teal Ducks Feeding in Weed Bed

Close Up Teal Duck Skimming Water Surface Feeding

The weed beds also seemed to be a good place to rest in -

Duck Resting in Weed Bed Others on the Water

Along with the more mature ducklings there were a few younger ducklings that were so cute.

Gadwall Duck with Cute Duckling

Teal Ducklings Mother Following

And now for some close up...

Close Up Bufflehead Duck Wings Stretched Out

Close Up Female Blue-winged Teal Wings Stretched Out

Close Up Female Hooded Merganser

Female Merganser Splashing Through Water

And for some funny guys...

Th-Th-That's All Folks!

All photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX 60 HS

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

This is my Amazing Nature Contest August 2020 #2 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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