#Swedish Yellow Duck

[dogwise]

Swedish Yellow Duck

[luckyduckwrites]

This is Raven Willowbill from my new Found Family fic. I made her design in the All Ducked Out Avatar Creator.

She's a Swedish Yellow duck with ginger hair.

[generalstrikefarm]

Here is the final female addition to the breeding flock and a few friends who we ordered because she would definitely have not survived the journey alone. Olive is a Chocolate Runner who will be part of the Runner flock once we get our drake. We chose the 2 Blue Swedish ducklings because they're gorgeous and friendly as adults. They don't have the high "productivity" numbers other breeds do, in terms of egg laying, but that's not what we're about here. The one who looks like a small penguin with a yellow bib is a Black Swedish who we ordered to keep our other Black Swedish duckling, Ilsa, company. (We got her because Black Swedish ducks are also gorgeous and friendly as adults.) We've named her Jocelyn since I recorded this.

We hope that we will be able to get the rest of our future ducklings locally or at least within an easy drive. Anything further than 3 hours each way is too much. They're put in too much risk being shipped further than that away from us.

[ariadnew]

another tumblr ask game.

I've seen this going around, and since I'm (a) currently sick and (b) hideously, hideously bored... you can work it out.

Last song: Kisses - Hanan Townshend

Favourite colour: I love wearing bold, rich colours, particularly yellows, greens, blues... but I also wear a lot of black, brown and nude. My home decor palette is predominantly comprised of light and/or neutral tones at the moment, though!

Currently watching: Nothing currently (I'm not overly interested in television as a rule)

Last movie: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, a Swedish comedy.

Last book: If We Were Villains, by M. L. Rio. I was destroyed for two achingly full days afterward. :)

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Savoury, but a healthy appreciation for sweet and spicy as well.

Last thing Googled: "flight time auckland honolulu"

Current obsession: Lining my ducks into a row so I can quit my job and collect my entitlements without my bosses making it a hassle, and finishing old projects (my enduring obsession)

Currently working on: Far too many things at once, but today in particular I'm finishing a short story I began for CTJL Monaco and straightening out my travel plans.

I am tagging @madiwx because she has a shiny new Tumblr in need of cluttering up with posts (and I think she's generally down to do tagging games) as well as @highgrovesims3, because I have no doubt that she is currently desperate for something to do at work. 0:)

I'm too fearful of bothering anyone else to tag further, but if you see this and would like to participate, please do (and feel free to tag me so I can see; I'd love to know what you're up to)

[hujanditapaktangan]

May Highlight.

Kepagian ke Haw Par Villa (sekitar jam 9-an), dan mrt card-ku gabisa di-tap karna saldonya abis. Trus dibukain gate-nya sama petugas. Jujur rada serem naik yellow line kalo di daerah selatan soalnya SEPI BANGET. Cuma ada aku yang keluar dari platform dan di dalem kereta gasampe 10 orang.

Trus sarapan di deket mrt (udah beli nasi lemak di NEX sama teh c anget) dan badanku rasanya anget dan nyaman.

Temenku dateng jam 10-an dan kami popotoan sejam tok, lanjut ke Telok Blangah pake mrt, trus beli mam di deket stasiunnya (ada hawker) kubeli duck noodle dan lupa kalo ternyata ga halal, yaudahalah. Eh, sama beli teh c lagi (tapi es)

Nyampe telok blangah park mam dan popotoan lagi trus naik ke hillparknya. Sumpah kemirjngannya tuh cuma beberapa derajat tp nggatau kenapa panas BANGET!! Padahal di temgah hutan. Nyampe peak hill-nya rada kecewa. Bunganya ngga blooming perfectly, salah bulan sih, harusnya ke sana sekitar Agustus gitu. Jam 3 kami turun trus pisahan di Jurong mrt. Tadinya mau ke IMM nyari sepatu diskonan gitu tp ternyata jalannya lama, jadi yaudah pisah di sana.

Kuharus beli sprei single dan mampir ikea ternyata kosong, yaudah mam swedish house mafia.... halah! Swedish meatball kids size, coklat keik, lemontea sama butter dan gpbloknya butter ketinggalan di cart! Hufty.

Ada cerita sama ahma di belakangku. Beliau beli kopi o kosong 50sen, trus kutanya

"Ahma u buy coffee only ah"

"Yes yes, could I put on yours?" Sambil ngeletakin cangkir dan ngasih koin.

"Sure" sambil kuterima dan bayar

Setelahnya kami pisah dan belio ngomkng thank you ah take care berkali2. Warm.

Trus karna belum beli sprei ku mampir Tiong Bahru dan ke daiso. Lucky me! Nemu harga 9.50$ murah banget dan lucky me! (2) karna nemu pensil alis mekanik dan facewash cica yang hargamya murah. Sungguh lucky me!

Trus pulang.

Bonus foto merem

[twilitylive]

Toremood Pajamas Skin He wanted the yellow duck hoodie and the blue pajamas pants to match his Swedish Flag Lunar Cape and it came out like this :) (Love the small duck slippers <3)

[rabbitcruiser]

National Go Birding Day

Nesting in the middle of spring is a day that is dedicated to celebrating the wonderful ways of our feathery friends.

If you’re a fan of cheeping, flapping, pecking and swooping, then Go Birding Day should certainly appeal.

On a serious note, many of our best-loved species, such as the common house-sparrow are currently under threat, so Go Birding Day is also a chance to draw attention to the plight of some of our best-loved species.

You can celebrate Go Birding Day on your own, or with family and friends. You could also alert your local primary school, who may be keen to take part. Suggested birding activities include:

Hanging up bird feeders, and learning about the different sorts of food loved by various birds.

Taking photos of birds that you can see in your garden – or local area if you don’t have a garden.

Visiting a local nature reserve.

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[happyheidi]

It’s moo-nday 🐮!! Here’s my favorite little moo moo to start the week of right ♡

[ducktoonsfanart]

Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck - Triplets Mania - 85th anniversary - Quack Pack Week - Triplets - Plus Phooey Duck

Yes, I should have drawn this 2 weeks ago, but due to numerous problems I had, I didn't get to finish it then, but thank God I made it now.

Yes, on October 17, 1937, Al Taliaferro and Tad Obsorne drew a comic called Donald's Nephews and Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck appeared for the first time. Yes, Huey is red, Dewey is blue, and Louie is green. They then appeared for the first time on April 15, 1938, in the animation under the same name, and their history begins from then. They are mostly mischievous boys who defy Donald and Scrooge, but love to go on adventures with them. They also go to school and are members of the Junior Woodchucks, an important scout group. Yes, they are very smart and are partly moral compasses with Donald, their important uncle, as well as for Donald's uncle Scrooge. They also love hanging out most with Daisy's nieces April, May and June Duck as well as Gyro's nephew Newton. They have often appeared in cartoons, comics, and video games. Whenever Donald was present, they, Donald's nephews, had to be present as well. Yes, you know them most in Ducktales, but they were present outside of that as well.

Donald's classic shorts, Ducktales (original and reboot), Quack Pack, and various comics have mostly portrayed Donald's nephews in the best possible ways. So I drew two drawings (since it wouldn't all fit) showing various versions of Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie from the beginning to the present day. Drawn all three in his classic style from various series and comics such as Mr Duck Steps Out, Trick or Treat, Junior Woodchucks (Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Topolino comics as well as Dutch comics), Ducktales 1987, Ducktales 2017, Quack Pack, Area 15, Spookyzone and Duckscares. Yes, I also added Phooey Duck in three versions (the classic Ducktales version, the reboot version and the Quack Pack version) as Donald's fourth yellow nephew.

I hope you like this idea and this drawing and I certainly wish them a happy 85th anniversary since their first existence, and from next year their 85th birthday (actually they don't have that many, but then their birthday is in April). Happy Birthday Huey, Dewey and Louie! Yes, they are after Donald and Goofy, my favorite and best Disney characters.

By the way, what is your favorite version of Donald's nephews and your favorite triplet? And of course happy Halloween!

Huey, Dewey and Louie (English) in other languages: Jorgito Juanito y Jaimito (Spanish), Hugo Paco y Luis (Latin Spanish), Huguinho Zezinho e Luisinho (Portuguese), Riri Fifi et Loulou (French), Tick Trick und Track (German), Qui Quo Qua (Italian), Kwik Kwek Kwak (Dutch), Rip Rap og Rup (Danish), Ole Dole og Doffen (Norwegian), Tupu, Hupu ja Lupu (Finnish), Knatte Fnatte och Tjatte (Swedish), Ripp Rapp og Rupp (Icelandic), Χιούη Λιούη & Ντιούη (Greek), Viki Niki és Tiki (Hungarian), Hyzio Dyzio Zyzio (Polish), Titus Totus Tutus (Latin), Билли Вилли и Дилли (Russian), Бiллi Вiллi и Дiллi (Ukrainian), Kulík Dulík a Bubík (Czech), Hui Dui a Lui (Slovak), Raja Gaja i Vlaja (Serbian), توتو سوسو ولولو (Arabic), ヒュイーとデュイーとルイー (Japanese), 三只小鴨 (Traditional Chinese), ���儿 杜儿 和 路儿 (Simplified Chinese), Can Cin ve Cem (Turkish) and others.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

An antique dealer’s cavernous home in France. The iron structure actually comes from Gustave Eiffel's foundry in Paris. Matching French garden table and chairs are from the 19th century.

The interior is decorated with the antique dealer’s selected pieces like the paintings and French armchairs. The sofa was custom made. Notice the basket weave type ceiling beams.

Huge 5 panel art spans the length of the dining table. The wardrobe is Swedish and the benches are from the 18th cent. The yellow chair is by Eames.

An 18th century Italian chandelier illuminates the hall. The vase is from the 1930s.

An artsy Sinuous chair sits in the middle of the hall & follows the curve of the sculpture. The walls are painted with lime and natural pigments.

Interesting colorful kitchen. The sideboard is French and the chairs are Swedish. On the cart is a 1940s geometry game.

The headboard is antique and the blue chest is a French paratrooper army wardrobe.

The bathroom features a ribbon stool and a stuffed duck that was found in a store in Paris.

The red metal beds are cute and the painting gives it a nice look, b/c the room is small. 

Nice covered porch.

https://www.elle.com/es/living/elle-decoration/news/g456170/masia-rehabilitada/?slide=9

[dogwise]

Swedish Yellow Duck

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Movies I watched this Week #93

3 Faces, my third from Jafar Panahi (after ‘Taxi and ‘The year of everlasting storm’). He and a famous Iranian actress play a version of themselves, as they drive to a remote village in Northern Iran, after receiving a desperate suicide video from a young girl. Created on the sly, in spite of a 20-year ban from film making by the regime, it’s a primitive and touching road movie into a very rural area, giving a real feel of nights out in the boonies. The trailer. 7/10.

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Visconti + Bogarde X 2:

🍿 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, a thoughtful, new Swedish documentary about Björn Andrésen, who played 14-year-old Tadzio in Visconti's 1971 ‘Death in Venice’. He was an introspective orphan who lived with his grandmother, and was thrown into insane international fame when the film became a hit. Not only Dirk Bogarde, but Visconti himself and the whole production team were gay, and he was exploited as a gorgeous twink trophy. The rest of his life was colored by melancholy and sorrow. 8/10.

🍿 The Damned, his deviant Nazi-porn melodrama, A Krupp-like family sage, a-la ‘Dallas’ and ‘succession’, but with incest, homosexuality, child rape, and an orgy of perspiration and swastika flags. Tedious Götterdämmerung of greed, decadence, power struggles and hatred in a garish, kitschy 2.5-hour-long faux-historic soap opera. 2/10.

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“...Une carafe de rouge?...”

From the opening score of The Man on the Train, its’ clear that it’s a quiet French Neo-Western: Laconic bad boy Johnny Hallyday, dressed in a leather-jacket, comes to Annonay, a sleepy provincial town, planning to rob a bank there. Retired old teacher Jean Rochefort invites him to stay at his large house after they meet by chance at the local pharmacie. As they spend a few days together, they both become envious of each others life: The bank robber wants to retire into a life of peace, and the teacher who never ventured to do anything exciting dreams of breaking the rules just one time before he dies. 7/10.

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2 X Young Treat Williams:

🍿 Laura Dern played a restless, sexually-curious 15-year-old teenager in Smooth Talk with such conviction, it’s frightening. This adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates' short story paints a subtle psychological portrait by Joyce Chopra, a first time female director. But then it turns into a terror-inducing third act, when the sinister ‘Arnold Friend’ coerces her into coming with him for a drive in his convertible. I literally had to stop it numerous times, because I couldn’t handle to see what happens next. 8/10

🍿 ...”The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people...”

I clearly remember the controversies when non-American Miloš Forman adapted the youth anthem Hair into a movie: so many years after the peace movement died, made by a Czechoslovakian, he changed the performance and the sounds of most of the songs. But the film was then - and is still now - a terrific musical, and a testimony for certain hippy ideals, anti-establishment and anti-war, pro-drugs, sex and Rock 'n' Roll. Terrific dance choreography by Twyla Tharp, breakthrough roles for John Savage and Beverly D'Angelo, and unforgettable Nicholas Ray as the general. (Poster Above) - 9/10.

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The Aviator's Wife, my 2nd of Éric Rohmer’s “Six Comedies and Proverbs" (After ‘Pauline at the beach’). A charming story about love of some young Parisians. 7/10.

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Hiroshima X 2:

🍿 “Duck and Cover” - The Atomic Cafe (1982), a chilling documentary without any narration, made entirely out of nuclear weapons propaganda from the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare. It demonstrates how misinformation and propaganda was used by the US government and popular culture to accept and ease fears about nuclear warfare among the American public.

🍿 "...You saw nothing in Hiroshima”...

It’s been 40 years since I last saw Alain Resnais’s first painful feature Hiroshima mon amour and I was even reluctant to try it again, but within five minutes, it overwhelmed me deeply, with sadness and beauty washing over me. This poetic one night of love and remembrance between the French actress and Japanese architect was my best film of the week.

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2 by director Aneesh Chaganty and writer Sev Ohanian:.

🍿 My 4th re-watch in 5 months: Searching, a perfect thriller about dad John Cho frantically looking for his missing daughter. This was Chaganty‘s directorial debut. It was created brilliantly in a ‘Screenlife’ format (where the whole movie occurs on computer screens, smartphones, browser windows and surveillance footage). But what I loved most is the relationship between the father, teenage daughter and the pretty dead mom. 10/10.

I’m very sad to read that they just finished shooting “Searching 2″!

🍿 Their next suspense film was Run, about an isolated, disabled teenage daughter who discovers that her mom is keeping her hostage. It shared some similar traits: with ‘searching’: The bond between parent and child, the claustrophobic scope of just the two of them occupying one house. But it ended with Sarah Poulsen becoming a ‘Misery’-type crazy mother, and the plot twists turned tired and unconvincing. 3/10.

There’s a nice little Easter Egg, with a photo of the "fish_n_chips" model from the previous film on the University of Washington brochure.

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2 scores by Bernard Herrmann:

🍿 "The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world..."

78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene refers to the number of setups (78) and the number of cuts (52) in the 3-minute ‘Psycho’ scene, (which took one quarter of the film’s four-week shooting schedule). A good documentary. My usual pet peeve: Stop drowning your film with suggestive background music lasting 100% of the time! Especially when you analyze how integral the sparse original score was to the terror inflicted. 

🍿 Living Doll, episode 126 of the original ‘Twilight Zone’, mentioned in the documentary above. Telly Savalas plays a mean stepfather who is being terrorized by a murderous doll, Chucky’s original inspiration.

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2 more with Buster Keaton:

🍿 The Chemist is a 1936 American short talkie featuring Buster Keaton as crazy inventor Elmer “Happy” Triple. It was one of the 17 films he did for the small Educational Pictures. 3/10.

🍿 After writing a play titled ‘Play’ and a song called 'Song’, nonsensical Irish absurdist Samuel Beckett titled his only film script Film. The 21-minute experimental, silent short, starring the nearly-dying Keaton, was subject to extensive analysis and many in-depth interpretations. But I didn’t enjoy it. 🍿  

“..These people are primitive...” My second by Jacques Tourneur (After ‘Out of the past’) I Walked with a Zombie. It’s a strange, atmospheric horror film that was analyzed at great length for its use of Haitian Voodoo, mental illness, bondage and racism. But in my one viewing I didn’t grasp it.

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The Adventures of Tintin, was a 1991 Canadian TV series of 39 episodes based on Hergé’s classic bande dessinée. It retained its distinct ‘Ligne claire’ style of clear strong lines with no hatching, while eliminating some of the racist stereotypes of the original albums. I only watched the two parts of ‘The Crab with the Golden Claws’, which marked the first appearance of the alcoholic Captain Haddock. (In the 70′s when i lived with Ester and David, I collected all of Tintin’s books for him, and read it to him many times.)

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My first exposure to Polish director Walerian Borowczyk, who worked in France during the 60′s to 80′s, and was called “A genius who happened to be a pornographer”. Immoral tales (1973) is his infamous anthology of four pornographic fantasies. Art house excuse for debauchery a-la Marquis de Sade, which include graphic stories about blowjobs, masturbation, bestiality and incest. Paloma Picasso, Pablo’s daughter, stars as a naked countess who bathes in the blood of virgins in order to gain eternal youth. Boring male gaze - 2/10.

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Another “So-bad-I-couldn’t-finish-it-film”: The Decline, a Canadian survivalist camp thriller. As we morbidly wait for total societal collapse, tales about Preppers sound appealing. But this amateurish, predictable debut was awful - I lasted 45 minutes.

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(My complete movie list is here)

[bansheeoftheforest]

1, 19, and 26?

1. favourite place in your country?

The city harbour! I don't travel a lot, especially through Sweden, so I've mostly only been around my county and the cities surrounding it. A pretty popular city a few towns over has a harbour with a lot of out-of-country sailors visiting every summer. My family always go there to eat fancy ice cream, feed ducks, and watch the boats every summer <3

19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?

I think they are all pretty neat! The swedish flag is pretty basic and, well, just a re-coloured copy paste of all other scandinavian flags but I do love both blue and yellow! Our national emblems (Lion, three crowns, etc) are all neat and pretty in my opinion too. When it comes to the national anthem, it SLAPS. The swedish anthem doesn't even mention the country at all, just how much "I" (as in, the individual in the population) wants to live and die in the North. SO that is certainly something, but it is a bop!

26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?

Surprisingly enough, I cannot remember a single movie on the top of my head made by Hollywood or American media that involved Sweden or where sweden/swedish people/swedish culture was actually a big part of the story. The only one that comes up at the top of my head is Midsummer, which, might I add, I haven't watched, BUT it certainly is something to have the "only" mainstream movie of our culture be one where the people have taken that to an extreme and become a death and reproduction cult!

[malienessan]

I was tagged by @lallyloo 💖

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last song: atlas - coldplay

last movie: zootopia with the little ones

currently watching: the walking dead with my teenagers, we’re on season 8

reading: a book on what fossils you can find in skåne (research for something i’m writing)

playing: GTA V

currently craving: crisp bread with cheese and kaviar (the swedish kind)

I’ll tag @soho-x @summer-mclaughlin @theredquilt @memzhay @twistedboxy and anyone who wants to do it

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Thursday 9 January 1840

11 ¼

12 35/..

fine morning R10° at my bedhead and R9° on the console now at 11 ¼ a.m. breakfast till ten minutes past one – out about 1 ½ - left our cards chez Madame Apraxin – then drove about seeking la princess Sherbatoff, but came to the house of la princess Arbalinksy – admitted very civil sat 1/2 hour with her and her 2 daughters – she was doing very pretty piece of carpet work – a piece the size of a small hearth-rug – then left our cards for princess Scherbatoff and drove to the Kremlin to as I supposed la baronne Rosen – stopped at the house of baron Bode by mistake – drove off a long way (said to be near Madame Ocouloffs’) to chez la baronne Rosen, but finding it too late, returned and drove to Madame O-‘s apologized for our morning dresses – afraid of being too late – there at 3 – waited some time and then came a Mademoiselle ......... and afterwards Madame ......... wife of the gouverneur d’Astrakhan – low gown – (a sort of [?] silk – Gros de Naples) –bracelets and gold chains, and cap with long barbes, and full dress – fine looking person, the whole head taller than myself and .:. I being 5ft. 5in. she must be........ brought with her 2 out of her 3 children a fine (not handsome) big boy aet. 7, and a very pretty (beautiful little pale black-eyed girl aet. 4) and the German tutor – the children picturesquely dressed in red costume, à la [?] [?] – It must have been 3 ¾ when we sat down to dinner – the governess’ lady on my left and Madame O-‘s sister on my right and then A- next to the governess’ Lady her little girl and then the Mademoiselle.......... and Madame O- the governess and little girl ��� then the tutor – the boy – Mr. O- and the 3 or 4 young men (pupils) including the son in uniforme militaire – the tutor got up 2 or 3 times during dinner and came to the little 4 years old girl to say something about her eating and not eating – at last mamma sent her to sit next the tutor – began by soupe aux choux – then patés – then gruau de sarrazin [sarrasin] – mutton in fried? slices round a sort of minced meat – then duck – then Swedish turnips (orange yellow) whole – about the size of a large fist – the middle being chapped up with butter – good – then roast pig – with cucumber à la Russe – and cranberries done with honey, excellent – then 2 plats of confiture, plums, and whole (green they said but they looked yellow) gooseberries – then coffee brought to table, but we went into the other room, and I took my coffee with me – very nice dinner –

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I had talked much, to both my neighbours – to call upon the governess’ lady any evening from 5 to 7 – could not go by land from Astrakhan to Baku – would write to the commandment of the little [fleet] to shew us any civility in his power – a Frenchman and his wife had been at A- and had gone to the Caucasus – had wandered about the mountains by themselves – had not been heard of lately – supposed to have taken by the Circassians – there seems little hope of our arriving to A- sur [?] – I must think of this –

Madame la gouverneur played on the piano the child (aet. 4) sang very prettily little songs in Russian, German, French, and Latin!!! Madame O-‘s 2 children sang together mais rien de si joli que la petite polyglotte – home at 6 40/.. – dressed – off to the Oroussoffs’ at 7 ¼ - there in 10 minutes – tea chez la princess R- and nobody came to us tonight – our princes R- and A- and I all to ourselves till came away at 9 10/.. – home in 10 or 12 minutes – tea – sat over tit ill about 10 ¼ - while A- had Grotza, and after she had left me wrote till now 11 ¾ all but the first line of today – very fine day but no sure R, said Grotza this morning, 12° of cold out of doors – R9 ¾° on the console and R10 ½° on the writing table now at 11 ¾ p.m. – found count Panins’ cards – he had called about 3 p.m. today

[spartytoon]

BABY DUCK TIME! These guys all hatched within 24 hours of each other, and they're all out and about around my apartment complex! There's already been a few casualties; the blue hen (which you can see off to the left of the first picture with three blue-ish babies) had 4 as of yesterday afternoon but now she has three. The apricot hen had 10 as of this morning but is down to six as of this afternoon. The standard brown hen (in the blurry pic - they were walking away from me from a ways off), had two babies that she may or may not have stolen from the apricot hen, as they're the same age as the rest of her brood. Either that, or three hens had their clutches hatch within 24 hours of one another. In case you're wondering; the blue hen is probably a mallard/blue indian runner mix. She can fly, but when she stands up she's a lot taller and leaner than the other mallards, though not as tall as runners typically get. The apricot hen is a natural sport, it's actually a common color-morph in mallards around here. It seems to be a sex-linked trait in that the bulk of the apricot ducks I've seen are female. I only know of three apricot males (whom have an interesting gold tint to their feathers). The last pic is of the resident domestic ducks; a large mixed breed duck who's at least part Blue Swedish going by his coloration, and a blue indian runner (who is mostly white either because of a more dilute blue coloration, or age (black, chocolate and blue runner ducks tend to slowly turn white as they age - the blue hen actually has a few white feathers on her back). I'm curious to see how the blue hens babies will look if they survive to adulthood. Her mate was a mallard male with standard coloration, but her three surviving babies all have gray/blue fluff with yellow markings, which likely means they'll have blue feathers as well.