Happy TGI Friday for all my friends who are still working.

After I finished up my photo shoot in Maquoketa yesterday, I decided to drive out past the Duck Pond.  This is what I found on my way out-of-town.  This was a corn field that hadn’t done very well and had been chopped into silage.  It was flooded and a family of Trumpeter swans were picking corn off the ground.  This is the male of the family.  I was surprised at how close they let me get to them.  I guess the pickings were better than their fear of me.  Especially because I stayed in my car.

I was happy to see the four young signets from this past season.  The dad kept a close eye on me while the others continued to feed.

Farther away across the field (lake) was another family of swans with three signets.  I couldn’t get all four of them in the shot.  Interestingly as I went past the Duck Pond it was a full of water as I can ever remember and not one species of wildlife was in it.

About one hundred yards down the road was this cornfield under water.  I certainly feel bad for the farmers of the area.  They work so hard getting the ground ready, planting, maintaining.  Have a reasonably good growing season and then when it’s time to harvest their crop this happens.  Difficult lively hood. We are grateful for them.

Enjoy your day and be careful.