I have a beginner’s camera and I haven’t been happy with the quality of my pictures. But instead of brooding about them I decided to post a few of them anyway. I came across a family of whistling ducks (my best guess) today at a local park, 2 adults and 5 babies. They seem to sound more like geese then ducks to me. They have red beaks and legs with a brown eye ring and a brown ring around their necks. The colors don’t come out very good in the pictures. Perhaps I am taking them at the wrong time of day, straight up noon. Everything is washed out looking. I also took a picture of some of the most common birds at the park, some mallards and coots. Since I noticed that some of the other weblogs are very distant from here I thought I might share some of the common birds with everyone. I don’t know what might be common here that isn’t common somewhere else. Let me know if you know what kind of bird the family of ducks actually is.
Posted by Ann French at March 4, 2004 04:01 AMHi Ann, your photos are good (especially those coots) and thanks for sharing. I think your whistling ducks are Egyptian Geese - introduced to suburban parks and not wild but interesting birds to look at all the same. Here a useful web link
http://www.clevelandart.org/educatn/animals/goose.html
Yes, they are Egyption Geese.
Posted by: Arnold Meijer at March 8, 2004 07:09 PMI have some Egyptian geese and they're picking feathers off each other and they're eating the feathers. Can I trim their beaks like I do on Muscovy ducks? Please write back as soon as possible. Thank You
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