North Ponds Park -- Birds and Babies

I'm trying very hard to get my walking stamina up again.  So, I decided that, on this day,  I would simply go over to North Ponds Park, and do a little walking on their nice paved path.  I took my camera along, but I figured that I probably wouldn't use it.  After all, North Ponds is just a small, man-made area, carved out of unused land beside a busy expressway.
It was a beautiful day for a walk.  On the pond, Canada Geese floated peacefully.

Oh wait, they've seen me!

Got food lady?

No?  What good are you?  For this year's babies, these guys are awfully porky!  That's either Mom or Dad on the left, trying to keep track of the rowdy bunch.

Once I extricated myself from the gaggle of geese, I resumed my walk.  At the quiet end of the pond was another Mother and her bunch of babies.  These little Mallards were much more well behaved.

They were so cute paddling along behind Mom that I took a short video.

Mom brought them to shore, where they paid absolutely no attention to me.  Mom had her eye on me, though.

On I went, and was almost at the end of my walk, where the picnic pavilions are, when I got divebombed by an angry Swallow.  Where there's an angry, divebombing Swallow, there should be a nest, so I looked around, and, sure enough, there it was, right under the eves of the pavilion.

Mom flew away as I got closer, and I was able to get a picture of the babies.  They look quite big, and will, I suspect, be fledging soon.

Boy, was I glad that I brought my camera along after all!