The rain brings the wildlife out to play

Lucy and I went for a walk yesterday at the local park around the lakes. It has been flooded several times since we have lived here to the extent that water over the road had cut off the two shopping areas. One positive of that, is that it does drain away quickly with a few hours.

One pathway around the lake was closed but we were able to take the higher path and go that way. Very few people were there and I guess that was one of the reasons why we saw lots of birds and ducks.

I was able to get reasonably  close to this fellow before he decided to fly off.

This guy was busying flapping his wings to get dry, it had sprinkled just a few minutes before. He was also quite noisy, Lucy did not want to go that way at all. We did have to go left and over rhe bridge to get back. Water was over the path in a couple of spots which Lucy tiptoed through.