Well, here in Florida I think we’ve reached saturation point with all the rain we’ve been having, but today the sun is shining so here’s hoping we’ll have blue skies for the weekend.
One very colourful visitor to our backyard is Mildred Muscovy. She has a face that only a mother could love, but maybe in Muscovy world, she would win a beauty contest.
I’ll add just a touch more rouge to make her really outstanding and get her noticed by the judges.
Happy weekend, everyone. To join Paula’s Thursday’s Special Challenge, click the link below.
Haha…she certainly should win by a mile! So glad to keep in touch with you dear Sylvia, one way or another, and I wanted to visit your blog to let you know I’m still here, despite my longer and longer blogging absences. Always so much enjoy your photos and updates. We’ve been having heatwave one after the other here and need some of your rain! My water butt is bone dry…and that ain’t a good thing 😉 😀 ❤ xxx
Thanks. Dear Sherri. Always good to see you either here or on FB. 😘😍🤗
Likewise dear Sylvia! 🙂 ❤ 🙂
You are so lovely to join the challenge, Sylvia, and your Mildred Muscovy is lovely too, in a different way of course. This is so cool, and I appreciate it a lot! xx
Thanks, dear Paula. xx
A very bright faced Mildred Muscovy. Interesting name, Sylvia. You give these wild creatures clever names.
Issy 😎
Thanks, Issy. I enjoy naming my backyard visitors. Unfortunately they don’t seem to answer to their names. 😅
She would definitely be at the top in a Muscovy beauty contest! I miss my Matt Muscovy…haven’t seen him this year. So maybe he moved in your direction to chase new girls 🙂 XXX
Anything is possible, Helen. I saw a whole bevy of Muscovys when we were out and about yesterday.
Love your read , besides your photo!
Thanks so much, dear Anna. 🙂
Your weather is sounding more like Oregon and here we’re about as dry as can be!
I hope your temperatures aren’t as hot as here. It’s like a steam oven out there. 😳
The steamy hot temperatures did me in when I visited my family in Florida. I like my weather here just fine: dry summers and wet winters. The temperatures are pretty moderate year round. Summers are sometimes cooler than winters with the winds coming from the north.
Sounds perfect. Florida leaves much to be desired.
I think Mildred is very handsome!
Peta
Thanks, Peta. She has a different kind of beauty.
She’s a beauty in bird world! 🙂
I think the mothers are the only ones that think their Muscovy ducklings will grow up to be beautiful. I haven’t seen any in our part of Florida but I’m sure they are around. 😀 Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts. Today is the first day in so long that we haven’t gotten even one raindrop…I don’t know how to act.
Thanks, Karen. Lots of sunshine now. Thank goodness for a/c. We’re off to cooler climes next week and I’m looking forward to it.
She’s not really a beauty, except perhaps to Mr Muscovy.
I think so. 🙂
Happy weekend!
Thanks, Ute. xx
I meant “she” of course! Handsome bird!
Sort of handsome. 🙂
He looks like a cross between a duck and a turkey!
She is lovely – and eats those killer slugs, doesn’t she?
We hope so. 😃
The sun will come out tomorrow . . .
You can bet your bottom dollar . . .
Love,
Annie
It did too. 😀
We’ve had so much rain lately…I’m feeling like a mushroom.
🤣I love mushrooms 🍄
Nature can certainly choose for some interesting features. 🙂
Very true, Lynette. We humans are quite boring really. No horns, trunks, wattles, beaks, feathers or fur. 😅
That head was beautiful till you messed with it. Something should be done about her legs though, the calves look terrible. Not sexy at all, at all.
Haha. So you are a connoisseur if Muscovy calves? 😅
Been a Muscovy *uck duck beauty pageant for at least two minutes. Surely know all about them! The legs are the important parts. They have to support the additional weight!
That makes very good sense. 👏🏻😅
She’s beautiful.
I’ll tell her, Holly. 😃
Please do! She rocks! 🐔
Hope this weekend may show you a blue sky
Thanks, Marylou. 😘