Feed the Ducks in New Orleans City Park

A resident of City Park, New Orleans

There are always a few slices of bread leftover after breakfast.  We encourage our guests to take it to City Park to feed the ducks that inhabit the lagoons threaded around the New Orleans Museum of Art at the end of Esplanade Avenue.  No one was taking their bicycle up to City Park yesterday, so we took upon ourselves to bundle up the leftover bread to feed the ducks.

More accurately, we went to feed the geese.  There weren't many ducks paddling around the spot we chose to have lunch and share our bounty with our webfooted friends.

His friends call him Whitey

We also fed the black swan that usually keeps aloof when we visit.

A City Park celebrity

We saw two pelicans.  One of them was perched on a sunken branch that dips under the waterline then reemerges in a triumph of photosynthesis.

A pelican in repose

Pelicans seem to be able to sit still for hours, minding their own business until they stretch out their wings and soar over Bayou St. John.  There was another pelican at City Park.

"Petunia"

We couldn't tell which pelican was more real.  In New Orleans, everything rings true.  Adventures await you no matter where you go.  Feeding the ducks in City Park is always full of surprises.

A votre sante.