This weekend involved quite a bit of adventuring and discoveries! On Wednesday, Paulina and I were both bored and decided to wander through Channelside for a bit. There, we found 2 little ponds filled with softshell turtles and baby Moorhens (which I will get back to later). There was also this really large, strange looking duck that Paulina thought looked like a turkey--she looked it up, and it is...a turkey duck! Alright, so the proper name is a Muscovy duck but who cares...the thing definitely looks like a turkey. Softshell turtles are really interesting to me. I've actually held one before, and yes, their shells are very soft. But the most exciting part of our discoveries were the baby Moorhens!
At first we saw one parent and 2 babies, so we followed the babies around a little bit, only to then find a nest with the other parent and ANOTHER baby! So then there were 3 right? Well there were, until we saw another one pushing its way through the tall grass to get home to mama! They were absolutely...adorable! We just stood watching all the little babies, 4 in total now, walk all around the pond for about 1.5 hours until it was time to leave.
But that's not the end of the story! It was clear that 1 day of observations was not enough, so we went back Thursday to get another peek at them before going to see Disney's Oceans (which was only 75 minutes long but still good!) I'll wrap this up with a few pictures of the lovelies that we found :)
