Eurasian Wigeons- Anas penelope, previously Mareca penelope

Swimming along the Exe Estuary
These little ducks have to be one of the loveliest ducks there are. I think they are so cute

Nice photo Beryl, you are right, they are beautiful little birds.:)

Thanks Rolf. :)
I wanted to take them home

Me too Beryl... Crispy Duck pancakes ;)

Noooope. :eek:
I wanted them for pets

I love them too, Beryl, especially the colourful males!

Louise, you DO have a cruel streak - and a sense of humour rather like my husband, who loves to shout 'sage and onion' over the fence where free range chickens are kept, and suggested (with a serious expression) that the young daughter of friends of ours should call her pet rabbit 'Stew'.

Luckily, there are different ways of spelling that name.... :D

Aww. and they have such gorgeous faces :)
The males whistle and the female quack like the mallards. It's amazing to hear them and hard to believe because one normally associates a duck with quacking but mallard drakes don't even quack , they make a pathetic little wee-git noise :-rolling

It's funny Catherine, I do have a wicked sense of humour but but if my boyfriend saw all this he's roll about laughing - I'm the softest of things... I'll help insects out of the bus even though I get funny looks :)

I guess you and Glen are 'two of a kind' then, Louise!:)

I'm more like your brother - the quiet and studious type...! :-rofl