Chasing ducks

I think I've said it before, but Luca loves to chase birds. As soon as one lands in the yard, he looks at me and says "Chase birdies?" and when I nod he's off running. Well a couple months ago we had a pair of mallards land in the yard. They spent a lot of time in the back corner of the yard where we have some decorative tall grasses and we were afraid they'd build a nest. While I love love love baby ducks, we were pretty sure Jude would not be content to just marvel in their cuteness. So we scared them off. And continued to scare them away when they kept coming back.

And they still come back every once in a while. On this day Luca looked out the back door and saw them. He went supersonic he was so excited and screeched "DUCKIES!" Next, naturally, he asked if he could chase the ducks. I said sure and he went out after them.

Getting closer...

They took a lot longer to fly away then I was expecting. Luca got pretty close to them before they finally decided they were in danger. When they took off, they were a little bigger and displaced a little more air than the robins he's used to...

His reaction to them flying off was priceless, he was so startled! And still Luca keeps a weather eye on the back yard, hoping they'll come back.