Caramel's ducklings

It looks like Caramel is the first mother to have ducklings at the lake this year.  It's been nice and warm for their first few days, but a cold storm is expected to come through in a few days.

Caramel has 10 ducklings right now.  Five are very strong, three are a little weak, and two are disobedient/independent.

Mom's special little weakling

Across the lake, the osprey were busy with catching fish and bonding.  I've haven't seen them at the lake in April for a long time.  This juvenile Cooper's hawk was eyeing them and their fish.

The female didn't like that hawk:

Also, saw lots of killdeer.  Here is Castor, he and and some other killdeer were kill-deeing each other.  He was seen and heard doing courtship calls and nest scrapes.  

And, Squeak now had 4 eggs in her nest.

Junior, Killer Jr. and Miracle are all hanging out together.  However, I now have a problem with them.  They have learned that if they don't make any noise, I will probably not see them.  So, they stay very quiet and Junior likes to hide behind rocks.  So, I almost never know he is there unless he's fighting with someone else.  Miracle will just freeze and stand still when she sees me.