A wander in a big ol' park
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common_natureI was going to go down to the Rhode Island shore yesterday, but I got off a little late, so I changed plans mid-stream and stopped at Roger Williams Park instead, which in in the middle of Providence and has a zoo in it, but also has this wonderful series of lakes and ponds that I hung around, instead.
I met this guy hanging out with some other mallards. There's always the possibility, given his proximity to the zoo, that he's an escaped something-else, but I'm pretty sure he's just an abnormally colored mallard.
At one point, some mallards had a turf fight.
One mallard retreats, post haste.
The other mallard huffily (or triumphantly) settles his feathers.
Chickadee in flight.
I'm pretty sure this guy's a sparrow of some kind. Maybe a warbler, but I doubt it. Anyway: Seed.
And now, In Search Of More Seed.
This here's a Campbell Duck, probably. (I always thought they were just Puddle Ducks, but apparently not.) They're not native to the area (they're a UK variant), but then again, they're pretty common, and there's a bunch of them that live in Boston. But she too may be a zoo inhabitant gone rogue. (ETA: Or, more likely, a Pekin Duck.)
I met this guy hanging out with some other mallards. There's always the possibility, given his proximity to the zoo, that he's an escaped something-else, but I'm pretty sure he's just an abnormally colored mallard.
At one point, some mallards had a turf fight.
One mallard retreats, post haste.
The other mallard huffily (or triumphantly) settles his feathers.
Chickadee in flight.
I'm pretty sure this guy's a sparrow of some kind. Maybe a warbler, but I doubt it. Anyway: Seed.
And now, In Search Of More Seed.
This here's a Campbell Duck, probably. (I always thought they were just Puddle Ducks, but apparently not.) They're not native to the area (they're a UK variant), but then again, they're pretty common, and there's a bunch of them that live in Boston. But she too may be a zoo inhabitant gone rogue. (ETA: Or, more likely, a Pekin Duck.)
