duck formation...

...up in the sky

yes - yes, it is... ducks - not birds - not geese...

ducks, my friends! how often do we see this, i ask...

typically, it is geese in formation - i see flying through the air - circling around my little lake - looking to land... or perhaps the pigeons - maybe starlings... but ducks? so rare to see them coming in, in a group - usually i tend to see them straggling in one-by-one - on their own - as if they're oh, so independent...

so it was that i was doing a 2-step, quick dance in the snow - watching them high in the blue sky - their bodies appearing almost white through my lens so then i questioned - but they circled twice - i caught them the entire way - holding my breath - then letting it out in tiny exclamations of joy... as they landed 2-footed in the snow on the lake - i debated about using those shots - they turned out rather well, too - it figures i'd have more to choose from than i know what to do with today - but in the end, i kept coming back to this one - so unusual because of its rareness - and 'cuz it made me do that little dance - make no doubt - it made it...

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happy day.....