In the company of ducks...

The dog and I did the walking thing again this morning. We went to the same area as yesterday but took a slightly different route that followed a small woodland stream for a while before turning us towards the more open ground of Eelmoor Plain. As usual, the dog was just ambling along, only stopping to deep sniff a grassy mound or poke around an interesting tree. Occasionally she would stop to lap at some tasty mud puddle, which was probably full of midge larvae or something equally horrible. On our walk, we were not alone. We had company; two ducks, a duck couple in fact, out on their morning waddle. These ducks were pretty cool in the way they reacted to our intrusion; just a couple of quacks, a shake of the tail feathers and a slow wander off down our now shared path. The dog and I were fine about this situation, I mean they were by the stream first, so we just fell in behind them and the four of us, in single file, waddled along in the morning sun. Ho, hum.