Thursday’s drive was different, however, with something popping up on the landscape that she rarely sees.

Driving through the avenue of Living Legend trees, Parade was startled to see an overwhelming number of ducks waddling through the grounds of Bathurst Cemetery, along the footpath and curling up beneath several of the trees.

Parade expects to see ducks around Machattie Park or down by the Macquarie River, but seeing so many ducks around the cemetery’s reflective pond was certainly a new experience for her.

Ducks are, unsurprisingly, attracted to bodies of water where there is food for them to eat.

It looks like Parade will need to get used to seeing these ducks on her morning commute to work as clearly they’ve found a great spot for themselves.

INTERNATIONAL Museum Selfie Day was on Wednesday and there were plenty of people taking their best shot to win the $100 Buy Local Gift Card.

Parade browsed through some of the shots submitted and was particularly amused by the selfies taken by two of Bathurst’s councillors.

Deputy mayor Graeme Hanger and his fellow councillor, Monica Morse, were snapped taking their photos with a selfie stick at the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum.

They thoroughly embraced the tools at their disposal and the results were quite entertaining.

PARADE enjoyed the milder temperatures around Bathurst on Thursday after what has felt like an eternity of hot weather.

This month the temperature is up by nearly 5 degrees on the long-term average in Bathurst, and those 38-degree days haven’t helped.

Things may be cooling down, but experts have said the mercury will rise again early next week.

To think that many of us were complaining about how cold it was back in winter.

What fools we were.