You can see the other photos from my outing on Flickr at this link. Their next photo day is in August. You can sign up for alerts about this and other events on the zoo's web page.
I thought it was interesting that there was only one tan colored duck within this group. The remainder were the brown and tan mix.
I took this picture on April 20,2010. There were about 50-75 baby ducks in the lakes at the entrance to the Gleannloch Farms subdivision. This is one group that was swimming toward me on the shore.
We were walking down a trail that we thought was going to lead us to the gunnery range at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. We decided it was further than we wanted to walk and turned around. This funny looking creature was running toward us on the trail. It got to within five feet of us before it realized we were on the trail. It stopped long enough for me to capture a picture before it scampered off in the underbrush. It was the first time we had seen a roadrunner "live".
I'm not exactly sure how I was able to capture this bird in mid-flight, but it did work. This was taken near the South Padre Convention Center. There was a group of trees and a water feature that was in this area. The birds were generally in this area most of the mornings. There were about 75-100 photographers at this location when I captured this shot.
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