Totally Unauthorized

No, not the bridge players.  Our ducks, Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I.

Frank and Liz, enjoying the pool

And not our ducks, not really.  Just a pair of migrating fowl who stopped in our swimming pool for a month and a half last year to swim around, mooch corn and raise a couple of ducklings, then continue on their merry, ducky way.

We’re used to birds around here, we keep chickens.  Not for the eggs, most certainly not for Sunday dinner, just as living sculpture.   The number of chickens fluctuates as hawks, coyotes and raccoons seem to think we are just a buffet for them.  Right now we have 5 chickens, here are a couple of them.

This is the kind of weather the old timers calls ” a nice day for ducks.”  Lucky for us, we have the ducks to enjoy it.