Whoops

I hate whippersnipping. Detest it with every fiber of my being, for two main reasons:
1. On mowing day, its like your being sandblasted for 6 hours, and
2. We have to do the sides of the lake, so it means that you end up getting covered in a fair amount of duck poop. Yuck.
So, as you can see, not fun. Although today it did help me to discover something rather exciting. The bird in this picture is a Coot, they are water birds that frequent the lake in the park. While I was whippersnipping the edge of the lake this coot shot out of the rushes and sat there squawking at me. I couldnt figure out what was going on, normally they run and keep running. I figured Id get a photo of this daring bird and when I looked at the shot, I spotted the eggs. As you can imagine I left pretty quick after that. Im so excited by the potential of having baby coots again on the lake. They are so tiny and cute!!! Cant wait.