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A week after ArchitectureChicago Plus posted about the ducks returning to the fountain at the AMA building in Chicago, I run across these same ducks. Celebrity ducks! I felt like the paparazzi shooting these starlet ducks with my zoom lens. Only thing is that I wouldn’t need the zoom lens, because these ducks were so incredibly friendly. As soon as I set up, they came over to me asking to get their photo taken. “Please please take our photo!” they told me.
Now as it happened, I was just coming from Jewel with a couple bag of groceries including CRACKERS! (whole wheat crackers at that, I hope ducks are alright with eating those) Now I felt like a baby photographer getting the attention of the ducks with a cracker in hand. “Look over here! Over here! Smile! Good job!” (yeah, I was actually talking with the ducks.)
And then the female started to poke into my grocery bags, which quacked me up! (If you want to ruffle your feathers, check out the rest of the duck photos from this set, it’ll send you to the loon-y bin!)
Those ducks were totally digging your grocery bags, Matt E. I think we should name them Willy and Ethel. What d’you think?
Willy and Ethel! Yes! Let it be known that is now their official names! Thank you Lisa. Actually Ethel was much more interested in my bags than Willy. He was just floating around while Ethel was all over the place.