Peeps!

[altariel]

More from the swans on the river by Trinity Hall - there was a black one there today, beautiful. We'd seen black swans earlier in the year up by Magdalene. Also another glimpse of the swan family - the fuzzies are bigger now, and look more swanlike, but are still very fuzzy. Half of them were asleep, with their heads tucked under their wings, spiralling around the river on collision courses with each other... But one fuzzy fewer this time :(

When I came off the bridge I saw a little family of ducks - eight dark things, three bright yellow chicks, all going great knots (well, at about the leisurely speed I was using to watch them) and little legs pounding away beneath the water. Too cute for words.

Meanwhile, undergraduates were being turned into graduates. So town was packed with parents in their plumage.

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[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear the swan fuzzies have decreased by one. :(

But all the peeps sure sound cute. Even the human ones.

[trixieleitz]

But one fuzzy fewer this time :(

Such is the way of things :(

When I was a teenager, we lived in a house that backed onto farmland. Every spring, a mama duck would raise her fuzzies in a nearby field, and she quickly figured out that if she brought them to our back door, food would appear. Early in spring, she would shepherd many, tiny peeping fuzzywuzzies. Later, the peeps got larger, less fuzzy, but fewer. I reckon the total peep-mass remained pretty much constant over the season.

And we got duck-yuk all over our deck :/

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I had not even heard of Robert McClosky until you posted here, but the ducklings book looks absolutely delightful! I have a 3-year-old neice who would adore it, thank you!

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'll be wandering past that way a fair bit this summer, so I'll keep on looking out for them. The other seven seem fairly big and robust now.