Duck pond in George Bush Park South

No Swimming or Wading sign, bu it only
applies to human park visitors 

Duck-crossing ahead warning sign on S. Barker-Cypress 

Duck Pond in George Bush Park - South
East or S Barker-Cypress Road 

The black-bellied whistling ducks are back in force

Large flocks of black-bellied whistling ducks

are a delight to watch at the corporate pond 

adjoining Terry Hershey Park & Playground 

on Memorial Drive West of Eldridge Parkway 

Ducks, Geese, and other birds in George Bush Park - Bird watch in winter

Ducks in pairs and bevies - Black-bellied whistling ducks are plentiful and gregarious

A pair of black-bellied whistling ducks side by side in wetlands habitat

Silhouette of dead tree with whistling ducks sitting on tree limbs

Whistling Ducks taking off in the wetlands

Black-bellied whistling ducks perched at pond on Exxon Chemical corporate campus
next to Terry Hershey Park on Memorial Drive

Duck perched on a barbed wire

Left and Right - Different perspectives - visually speaking

Ducking: The ducks are all lined up in a row, but are they towing the line?

Some look left, other right, but all right from the center and ahead of the curve

Cute black-bellied corporate-pond whistling ducks 

inspire creativity in group-photo captioning.

Colorful ducks at the lake in George Bush Park (bird and landscape photos)

Lakeside landscape East of South Barker Cypress Blvd in January

Duck traffic control - Pics of ducks and duck-related warning signs

Ducks are abundant in the West Houston area, and so are signs attempting to cope with the challenges of their presence in a suburban environment, not to mention near or on roads. 

A selection:

Duck warning sign for motorists driving through Bear Creek Pioneers Park.

Caution: Duck Traffic across the Road

No swimming or wading allowed in the pond in the Southern part of George Bush Park... unless you are a duck, of course. 

Road-side duck control or rather motorist-control to protect the ducks when they get out of the water and waddle across the road.  

Duck crossing sign on South Barker Cypress Road

Nor do these waddling birds just frequent parks, lakes and adjoining roads. Corporate campuses in West Houston are duck and geese habitat too:

Baby ducks on Exxon Mobil campus next
to Terry Hershey Park

Duck crossing warning sign on Enclave Parkway
near Beeler Family  Cemetery Pocket Park

Ducks on Enclave Parkway sidewalk

Black-bellied Whistling Duck sitting on barbed wire
near Memorial Drive in the Energy Corridor

Visiting wild ducks lined up at pond on Exxon Mobil campus next to
Terry Hershey Park between Memorial Drive and Katy Freeway

Black-bellied whistling duck sightings in West Houston

Ducks and gees at Exxon's corporate pond next to Terry Hershey Park
with BP office tower in the background

Walkability improvements in Energy Corridor - North segment of Enclave Pkwy gets sidwalk

Walkability & Bikability get boost with sidewalk construction projects nearing completion on Enclave Parkway in Houston's Energy Corridor

  

Following completion of a sidewalk construction project in the mostly residential segment of Enclave Parkway South of Briar Forest Drive last year (2011), work is now continuing this summer on infrastructure improvement to facilitate walking and biking in the section from Briar Forest North to Eldridge Parkway, which is lined by large commercial office properties (not only energy companies), but also by acres of still undeveloped land with a nice stand of trees, giving the corporate presence a park-like feel.

The new paved (poured concrete) sidewalk will complete the connection to the Terry Hershey Hike & Bike system at the KBR office property near the Eldridge Parkway bridge over Buffalo Bayou. 

There is already a separate pedestrian/bike bridge on the East side of the two-span Buffalo Bayou bridge for motor vehicle traffic. A restroom facility with running water and hand dryer serves strollers, hikers, and bikers at an unmarked building North of the trail. It also features a drinking fountain outside. On the other side of Eldridge there is an open-air “runner’s shower”, although no one seems to ever use it. The doggie drinking fountain, by contrast, is much more popular.

Here are a few pics from the road work near 1200 Enclave Parkway, a large commercial office building, most of which was recently leased by Schlumberger, a company that already had a corporate presence nearby -- albeit not Class A like this one -- on Dairy Ashford Drive.

Sidewalk extension work under way near corporate park with fountain
(and lots of ducks) in the northern segment of Enclave Parkway
between Parkway Plaza Drive and intersection with Eldridge Parkway

A pair of ducks chattering at the existing sidewalk near the fountain

Corporate Park with lake and fountain on Enclave Parkway

The ducks are already quite accustomed to passers-by and line up to greet them
(more likely expecting to be fed)

Schlumberger's new address on Enclave Parkway - one of the large-company corporate tenants
with long-terms lease for lots of square footage of top-notch office space in this bucolic part of West Houston. No cattle anywhere to be seen, though, not to mention longhorns (but you can drive up North a few miles and gaze at some real Texas longhorn cattle at the Houston Farm & Ranch at Abercrombie Drive off  Patterson Road inside Addicks Reservoir if you are lucky)

Texas Longhorn in Bear Creek Pioneers Park
Houston Farm & Ranch / County Agricultural Extension Office