Spring on the Torrens Lake in Adelaide.

The usual lineup of swans and seagulls are ready for a feed opposite the Adelaide Festival Centre, but there are no ducklings to be seen. Upstream from the City Bridge, a cute flotilla of baby wood ducks is old enough to go swimming without Mum. Later, she greets them on the lawn.

A couple of kilometres upstream on the river, the oxbow wetland in the St Peter's River Park is a haven for families of native black ducks and moorhens. Mother moorhen encourages feeding in the shallow lake. Brilliantly blue-chested, the male scratches in the mulch with two ungainly chicks.

Spring -- the season of renewal on our mid-city river.

Please send in your favourite shot- or tell us your duckling story.

Keith Conlon
18/11/09