“Just look at those beaks. I mean, come on.”

by Meg on September 11, 2006

I agree with you, sender-inner Desi W., but tell us, just HOW did all these ducklettes happened to be piled together like this? They’re like a mini carpet! WTF!?

Pinkbeaks

GAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Mini beakitude!

{ 65 comments }

1 Redzilla 09.11.06 at 4:54 pm

Imagine this: hapless cuteologies goes in for full-face snuggle with a pile of ducklings. Emerges with half a dozen annoyed ducklings clinging to lips and nose with their adorable bills. Good thing this is just a picture.

2 Redzilla 09.11.06 at 4:55 pm

Oh, and can I just say: First post!

3 Desi 09.11.06 at 5:05 pm

I took that picture at the MN State Fair, in the baby animals building. They were only a few hours old and were just huddled in the corner of the pen, happily sleeping. I tried to count but I just kept wanting to grab them, and they frown on that at the fair.

4 DanS 09.11.06 at 5:08 pm

Mmmmm, fuzzy peepitude.

5 Snorglit 09.11.06 at 5:10 pm

And one perfect pair of webbed feetitude sticking out of the pile. Sigh. I can just hear them gurgle-clirking. CA-YOOT.

6 Theo 09.11.06 at 5:14 pm

Desi — w00t for you and the Great Minnesota Get-Together! We didn’t get there, this year.

Must get back to work… currently being nibbled to death by ducks…

7 mejezabel 09.11.06 at 5:15 pm

i count 19

i think

8 Casey 09.11.06 at 5:42 pm

Gah! Cheap shot to my sensitive cuteous cortex in my brain!

9 Jen 09.11.06 at 5:46 pm

IMHO, this was by far the bestest part of the baby animal building at the MN State Fair, and possibly the best part of Fair itself. Well done with the adorable picture!!!!!

10 Erin 09.11.06 at 5:54 pm

Okay, at first I counted fifteen, then eighteen or nineteen, and then I realized it doesn’t matter. It’s more than enough for a good full-faced snorgle.

11 katieleah 09.11.06 at 6:05 pm

Nineteen! Nineteen cute baby fuzzy duckies, Mwah-ha-ha.

12 Corrine 09.11.06 at 6:20 pm

They’re laying in the shape of a leaping bunny!

13 arwo 09.11.06 at 6:21 pm

And among the nineteen: four peeking ducks!

14 Lauri 09.11.06 at 6:21 pm

Oh THANK Gaaaaaahd!
*dives headfirst into duckpile, snorgling all the way* *nawmnawmnawm*

THANKS for the link, FGC!!!

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh, that’s better. I was quackin’up!

15 Lauri 09.11.06 at 6:23 pm

Desi, what a GREAT pic! Specduckular!

*Happily being nibbled to death*

Sweet ducking-pile of fuzz, at last I’ve found you!

16 Theo 09.11.06 at 6:34 pm

[snickering @ Arwo's comment]

17 mariser 09.11.06 at 7:12 pm

[T. is snickering @ Arwo's comment]

butbutbut, is true! there *are* for peeking ducks in that there pile o’ fluffitude.

T. you’re jus’ mean [furrows brow]

18 Jenna 09.11.06 at 7:30 pm

(“< *Kwak*

19 chunkstyle 09.11.06 at 7:35 pm

I think they are actually the droppings of the cutie-est cute monster in the world. Don’t look directly into his eyes if you come across him in a forest. Your last dying word will be “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

20 Theo 09.11.06 at 7:51 pm

Mariser… I was snickering at Arwo’s play on “Peking Duck” (y’know, the entrée).

21 Theo 09.11.06 at 7:52 pm

…OK, I suppose that *could* be viewed as mean, now that I think about it.

22 Tony James 09.11.06 at 8:00 pm

Scientists believe that they have discovered why M.C.Escher finally went insane.

23 Theo 09.11.06 at 8:06 pm

LOL TJ… shame these aren’t interlocking baby geese, because that’d be gosselation.
Natch.

24 Lauri 09.11.06 at 8:07 pm

Hehe…squeed to death by peeps, TJ?

25 Lauri 09.11.06 at 8:08 pm

Yeah, teho, but these are quacktals!

26 mariser 09.11.06 at 8:13 pm

T.,

I *know*. is just that the four little quacklets were, you know, actually “peeking” from within da floof. just wanted to watch you squirm a little. ;) is all good.

27 g-lo 09.11.06 at 8:14 pm

Gettin’ “down” with my peeps!

28 mariser 09.11.06 at 8:17 pm

Lauri,

“quacktals”

you slay me, girl.

29 Tony James 09.11.06 at 8:20 pm

Teh-O – and what’s the cygneticance of gosselation?

30 kit 09.11.06 at 8:20 pm

Ahh, pet they were only a few dollars too.

31 Theo 09.11.06 at 8:35 pm

TJ — the cygneticance is that it’s a dramatic natural example of “closest packing.” You know, like you find in squeehives.

32 thehawke 09.11.06 at 9:06 pm

YUM!!! Ducks!

OK no. I mean CUTE! OMG SO CUTE! *pop*

33 jaypo 09.11.06 at 10:01 pm

Hmmm…think I’ll mix mahself up a quacktail while I catch up on the peeps.

34 little miao 09.11.06 at 10:11 pm

So many pink beaks and one little webbed foot!

35 A thinker 09.11.06 at 11:27 pm

Pile o’ duck floof!

36 Layla 09.11.06 at 11:40 pm

Is it just me, or does anyone else also see the vague webbed-feets-shape of this pile of anerableness?

37 Saranimal 09.11.06 at 11:50 pm

I WANT TO RUB MY FACE IN THEM. sssnnnnrrrggg…..

38 Lauri 09.11.06 at 11:54 pm

Are we sure we are all not just having a nervous drake-down?

39 Gary Fixler 09.12.06 at 12:57 am

This is no way to store your ducks! Get them all in a row, pronto!

40 Kate 09.12.06 at 2:06 am

Dude.
It’s a clusterduck.
Hell yeah.

41 Theo 09.12.06 at 2:13 am

Oh my [SNORT] Kate…

42 Michele 09.12.06 at 3:29 am

THAT is a gaggle of cute. Precious duckulences.

43 Denise in Nebraska 09.12.06 at 4:03 am

Is there anything in life more precious than fuzzy baby birds? No. The answer is no.

44 Aubrey 09.12.06 at 4:34 am

We better get those kittehs from a few posts back to relinquish those KimWipes – we need to keep those beak-ers clean!

45 kimmykat13 09.12.06 at 4:38 am

MOTHER OF GOD… I just stroked out…has there been a possibly cuter post!?!??!?!?

46 betty 09.12.06 at 4:42 am

it’s a sea of duckehs, just like the sea of bunnehs…so proshy cute!

*I apologize if someone already said this, but I didn’t have time to read through all the comments*

I’m just glad CO remedied the bandwidth issue…I was on the verge of going postal without CO…lol.

47 o 09.12.06 at 12:38 pm

Squee!

*faint*

48 Donna 09.12.06 at 12:47 pm

There’s a clog in the assembly line at the duck factory.

This is what happens.

49 becca jo 09.12.06 at 2:21 pm

oh my gosh i knew it was the MN state fair before i even looked at the comments. for those who have never been, it is a fantastic place to get your cute on, although now they’ve got the babeh animals in the ‘miracle of birth’ barn, and seeing a dozen bloody piglets just isn’t the same as watching a chick or duckling hatch from their egg…..
i’m so old i remember when you used to be able to pick up the chicks and duckies and hold them. lurved it.

50 firefinch 09.12.06 at 2:54 pm

These duckies may be in danger from the excessive snorglitude coming at them. Better hope they have AFLAC.

51 Holly 09.12.06 at 3:01 pm

Awww!!! All soft and buttery yellow. Lil foot i see! So cute! Just too da-ling!

52 Mary 09.12.06 at 3:51 pm

Squeeee! Lil’ duck toes!

53 PuppyMomma 09.12.06 at 4:23 pm

..and back to you at the traffic desk Jim.

Thanks Jill, it looks like we’ve got a pile-up on the outer loop. Traffic’s a bitch. Everybody’s slowing donwn to rubber-duck…ah rubber-neck. You may want to take the back roads. Now back to the weather…

54 C.O Lover 09.12.06 at 9:22 pm

Maybe they’re born with, it maybe it’s Maybeline.

xDDD Couldn’t Resist.

55 Brak_Silverbone 09.12.06 at 10:50 pm

I’ve heard of an infodump, but a ducklingdump?

56 C.C. 09.13.06 at 3:01 am

Add one more at the top left of the lump and it forms one giant duck.

57 Netherland Dwarf rabbit, owner!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 09.13.06 at 7:21 am

Pile…you’re on candid camera!

58 Theo 09.13.06 at 3:23 pm

NDRO — [chuckling]
[with ducklings]

CC — hmm, maybe this is where April Floorduck came from?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2581907818832287807&hl=en

59 Pika Hikari KT 09.13.06 at 7:51 pm

The fluffy downitude of it all! …Let’s get dangerous.*snorgles*

60 Lauri 09.14.06 at 2:00 am

*rofl*
Clusterduck. Hee!

Theo,
Lorna is the sweetest of cats!

61 Netherland Dwarf rabbit, owner!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 09.14.06 at 7:17 am

“…NDRO — [chuckling]
[with ducklings]…”

Thank ya Theo!
I knew you’d understand the reference!
;oD

& your “chuckling with ducklings” is a goody of a rhyme!

62 Subhangi 09.14.06 at 1:41 pm

EEEEE!!! Fuzzy butterball ducklets!!!

63 Clotypus 09.14.06 at 8:22 pm

I count 20 :) Anyone else?

64 *jealous of crazy people* C& 09.14.06 at 10:12 pm

omg! its like Ming-ming clones! Ming ming is a character from the absolute CUTEST show on tv, wonderpets!

65 Pika Hikari KT 09.15.06 at 11:24 pm

[Ming-Ming]This is NOT seawious in the lweast![/Ming-Ming]

And I might as well point out that no one got the Darkwing Duck reference I slipped in last time(bow to the awesomeness that is DW! BOW!:p)!O_O

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