another. Making decisions to stop and take a break to focus on
personal projects is sometimes hard, but extremely necessary. These
get your creative juices flowing, motivate you to do more things and
help to keep you happy when you did something that was yours.
I recently took a break from tons of time spent on the other
responsibilities (meetings, negotiations, marketing and other business
crap) to focus on my personal backyard project. For the next few days,
I have decided to focus on some guys that are all over the place in
south Florida. The Muscovy duck. These ducks are native to south and
central america, but have become a very large population throughout
south florida. They are pretty tame animals, but fairly skittish when
getting too close to a human. Because many families enjoy feeding
them, they automatically assume everybody is wanting to feed them so
sometimes when you are simply sitting in a chair in the yard there is
a good chance they will show. These guys are very distinct with very
diverse amounts of 'caruncles (or comb) on their heads that looks more
like tumors than anything else. This nasty looking texture is what
makes them more distinct than any other bird.
There are about 10 to 12 that hang around our apartment complex and we
have been watching regularly. Today we took advantage of them getting
used to us and caught a few. One at a time, I would grab one and then
safely have Anna hold them while I photographed them. Although they
didn't give me much time to work with them, I was able to get a few
shots of each before we let them back outside. We shot three today and
hope to get more tomorrow and Sunday. So how are you spending your
weekend?
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