Yesterday I went out with the niece and nephew for a little fun timeeee.

Not including pictures of the kiddos because, well, it's NG.

Anyway, the day started with a trip to an airport eatery, so the kids could watch planes go buy. Unexpected coolness featured a Marines Jet stopping in for a refueling or something.

pix:
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Then we fed sum ducks. There were an insane number there, given the weather lately. But they were there, and hungry. I was most intrigued by the little black ones with the white beaks that were jaunting around.

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Here's a good shot of one diving for food, I like the little water spray
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Oh, they also had some kind of crazy-ass dinosaur feet:
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Additional shot of the black bird, with decent detail on water beading off of it's feathers:
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There also happened to be a huge pigeon population roaming around, I was most interested in this little cowpigeon:
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anddddd, here's the boss hog, he was a very large goose, stomping around and taking shit from nobody. He encroached on my niece and nephew a few times, and I literally put my foot on him and shoved him away, only to have him look at me with a bird like expression of, "Lookit this mothafucka"

He was not to be trifled with.

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so yeah. Also here's a large pillar that's going to support a new freeway around here. I took it from a moving car, so it looks like shit. But meh.