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the local park duck pond was three quarters frozen over this morning.
most of the ducks and a couple of swans huddled into a small patch of water.the black headed gulls prefered to stand on the ice.
here are a couple of mallard and a white ''farm'' duck, on the water.
Nice. I'm surprised they are not skating. The white duck is a littl small for a farm duck looks more like a leucistic mallard we have some here We had 3 leucistic and one had 8 ducklings 4 snow white and 4 almost normal colour
Here they are.
The first picture almost grown ducklings hatched by a normal coloured female . The second is a pic the 4 almost normal and 4 leucistic and th las tois is a surviving duckling that is now a fully grown snow white duck with just a yellow beak and feet . no other pigment and they are males with a pathetic little squeak for a quack.there is a video of them some where in the video thread
nice pics chocky, :) the adults almost look plucked!! i only used the term 'farm' duck loosley, not really knowing what to call it properly. there are so many hybrid ducks on park duck ponds.
Yes. Mallards do get around. The farm duck White Campbell or Perkin duck was bread from a mallard in China from what I have read. The are big and edible. They are gorgeous . The white ones here can't fly very far and stay in the brook.
I love the curly tails that Mallards have