Kerry Does It, So I Think I Should Too

A couple of days ago, I introduced you to Marshmallow and Smore.  I am so disappointed that this photo is blurry, but it took much tip toeing across the tree branches and hanging suspended from a rope and arching my back at a 45 degree angle, while crossing my fingers and all 10 toes in hopes that I didn't fall, to get this fantastic, yet blurry, picture of the sleeping duck. 

 

Well really, I didn't have to go to quite that extent of physical duress to photograph my subject of choice, the duckling.

However, my niece Kerry balances on cliffs and palm branches  or hangs suspended from 40 foot grapevines and other dangerous things like that, to take photos of poisonous snakes and rare birds in the jungles of exotic places. (I might have exaggerated slightly, but probably not much!) And she gets some freaky awesome pictures that way. See the one shown above.  I am so proud of her.  She took it. 
  I just wanted to see how it would sound if I pretended to photograph in dangerous situations too!

 

Eh, not so great. Huh?

 

Actually, it was very mundane and quite routine as  I  walked across the floor to take the picture of the sleeping ducky.  I would see my daughter flailing her arms to come quickly because obviously something was going on with the ducks.

 

Every time that I would assume approach mode, to take the picture the ducky would wake up.

  That was quite interesting also.

    The ducky's little head would pop up and wobble as though it was so tired it could hardly lift its head. 

 The little black eyes would open, close and blink, blink, and then plop,  back down the head would go,

  sound asleep once again, sort of.

 

So in case you have never seen a little yellow duckling stretch out and sleep, well...there ya go!

 

I sense your enthusiasm.

 

:)

However in honor of a truly miraculous bird sighting, I submit to you what Kerry wrote in the comments of her face book post under the photo of the bird shown above.  The bird is the Quetzal, national bird of Guatemala.  Kerry and her husband live in Costa Rica.  Their photography is "jaw ~droppingly" beautiful. I have used her photo and comments with permission.
"we saw him in Monteverde.
Donnie and Ralph, we actually saw two! A pair! And it's not even quetzal season. We were incredibly lucky, for sure. We actually learned today that there are only about 200 left and none in Guatemala anymore because of deforestation. This is our second time at this forest and our second time seeing one. The first time was in 2006 but it was just a female."

 

Rachel