Silly Ducks

[pecan]

We ran our flood irrigation for the first time this year yesterday.

*Flood irrigation is snow run off from the mountains, channeled into a series of canals in the valley, to a series of smaller canals, to property with water rights for use to irrigate your land without using city water.

Anyway, I was walking back from shutting off the water and I noticed two ducks flying in. I could tell they were not going for the pond as they usually do, but instead the flooded lawn behind the pond. They landed as if they were landing in a body of water and proceeded to swim around, no doubt eating all the little bugs and critters surfacing from the flooded ground.

Silly ducks.

 

[sissy]

the reason they did that is all the bugs are near the surface of ground and the ducks are bugging out .

 

[pecan]

the reason they did that is all the bugs are near the surface of ground and the ducks are bugging out .

They probably had a hard time getting lift off after gorging themselves on bugs. LOL They seemed pretty focused out there.

 

[sissy]

I have seen turkeys do that here in a low spot in my yard when we get heavy rain it fills with water and turkeys love getting all the bugs that float up .

 

[Tula]

What great pictures

 

[Nyboy]

What are the bright blue flowers ?

 

[Lisak1]

That's salvia @Nyboy

What fun pictures @pecan ! So does the ground absorb the water that quickly?

 

[j.w]

Smart ducks and neat pix of them doing their thing

 

[pecan]

What are the bright blue flowers ?

Yes they are perennial Salvia. Great plant, little to no maintenance, can handle hot dry weather no problem and blooms strong now, but continues to bloom through the summer.

 

[pecan]

That's salvia @Nyboy

What fun pictures @pecan ! So does the ground absorb the water that quickly?

It all soaks in within an hour of shutting the water off. Then we don't have to water again for a week.

 

[Nyboy]

Do you know what variety of Salvia ? It is a very unusual color blue. I love it.