Last year, this enormous brown duck (an escapee from a meat farm) hatched out an incredible NINE babies, all different colors from bright ye...

Happy Spring!

Here at the duck park, the mallards are endlessly entertaining. Here a handsome drake turns himself upside-down, paddling furiously while he...

Haven't seen ANY birds for ever so long. The back yard is deserted! I've complained about this before, so I'll shut up now, but ...

Sometimes I think that if I had been raised by ducks, I would have turned out a whole lot better. This mother mallard is incredibly brave in...

These parallel dabblers really surprised me! I could even hear their busy little bills dribbling and drabbling in the delicious muck. I'...

My nature walks keep me sane, or at least as sane as I can expect to be in these horrific times. I love extreme closeups of mallards, as the...

This is one of my loveliest duck videos from Como Lake. Pure poetry on the water. Being in nature is the one thing keeping me more-or-less s...

Bosley is the handsome but mysterious hybrid duck we've been following for several years on our walks around Como Lake. He's alm...

There was this duck, see, and all I could see was its ass. It went on that way for a long time, so I filmed some of it. The duck's f...

Bosley, the magpie duck/mallard hybrid of Como Lake, has had an interesting summer. We almost always see this handsome, friendly guy dab...

I think this is one of the best videos I've taken. Seven ducklings were faced with an impossible challenge, but somehow managed to b...

I love these kinds of videos. I've seen the protectiveness of mother ducks, and their urgency and distress when they're separate...

Bosley is the name we gave to a very strange duck who lives with a flock of mallards in Como Lake. We kept wondering why a very large, p...

I love seeing and filming the first ducklings of spring, but I was saddened to see this little guy running around peeping frantically. I...

After the revelations in yesterday's email from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, we went to visit our newly-recognized magpie ...

I've written about this guy before. He's an inhabitant of Como Lake in Coquitlam, B. C., a place we walk around a few times a w...

There Once was an Ugly Duckling There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all stubby and brown. When he was very you...