Friday Skywatch

We were at Paul and Dalton, a private plantation about 40 miles south of our house, for whom we are doing a bird survey--we are up to 128 species there now. They manage the former rice impoundments very well for water fowl. The duck numbers were unbelievable! These won't show small, so do click them larger to see the clouds of ducks.

These are pintails--we had never seen so many!

I think the next two are ruddy ducks or gadwall--another two species we had never seen so many of!
The different sky colors have to do with not only time of day that the various pictures were taken, but also which way I was facing in regards to the sun. The whole day was beautiful.

These next are ruddy ducks getting up too.

Turns out we weren't the only ones surveying waterfowl that day. This is a plane from the DNR. He may have been monitoring the two bald eagle nests on the property too.
To see lots more Friday Skywatch photos, click HERE or on the first sidebar picture of the white ibis flying.

How are you doing on your Great Backyard Bird Count? I have 19 species already, but not really big numbers yet.