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The "aaaaaahhh" factor

Postby Sheila Smart on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:02 am

Its spring time and duckling time! The mother Pacific black duck showed up with nine ducklings and esconced themselves in our neighbour's pool. To enable the little ones to get out of the pool, he put down a ramp. It didn't take long for these little ones to get the hang of it.

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Postby gstark on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:14 am

Is that a heated pool Sheila? Duck soup perchance? :)

Great capture. I love it!
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Postby Willy wombat on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:40 am

Aahhhh

Pretty duckies

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Postby Paul on Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:20 pm

Aww cute! :D
Nice composure Sheila, also seen your image of Cedric in Digital Camera magazine, very nice! 8)
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Postby Yi-P on Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:48 pm

Ahh soo cute they are!! :D
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Postby Manta on Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:00 pm

Ah yes...very cute.

Until you have to spend weeks rebalancing your chemicals from all the 'additional material' in your poolwater!
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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:15 pm

Nice one Sheila - you have the ability to always capture the unusual :)
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Postby Alex on Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:43 pm

Excellent photo, Sheila. I love it.

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Postby Sheila Smart on Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:57 pm

Thanks all. I know its a problem with duck poo in pools but our neighbours are quite stoic about it. Its something that you learn to live with living 750 metres from Careel Bay. I forbade my husband, bless him, to feed the ducks on our verandah as one day I came home to find two of them sitting in our lounge room, with the resultant mess on the floor :x . They had come through the cat flap!

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Postby cawdor on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:27 pm

Brilliant shot, absolutely gorgeous :)
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Postby Manta on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:47 pm

Sheila Smart wrote:Thanks all. I know its a problem with duck poo in pools but our neighbours are quite stoic about it. Its something that you learn to live with living 750 metres from Careel Bay. I forbade my husband, bless him, to feed the ducks on our verandah as one day I came home to find two of them sitting in our lounge room, with the resultant mess on the floor :x . They had come through the cat flap!

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Cheeky little buggers! I love 'em but don't let them in the pool. A bit of Duck-Off or similar in the water works a treat and they don't come back for years.

My apologies too, Sheila, for not saying how much I loved your shot. A few stray shadows but it's a ripper nonetheless.
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Postby blacknstormy on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:32 pm

:) Nice one Sheila :)
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Postby asaroha on Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:27 pm

aaaaaahhh.....　*die from cuteness overload*
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Postby Matt. K on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:33 pm

Beautiful image Sheila! The cute factor is very high.
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Postby Geoff on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:38 pm

Beautiful capture Sheila.
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Postby shutterbug on Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:21 am

NICE :!:
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