Plenty of dabbling going on!
Mallard chicks forming a line to dabble with their mom! About the best shot I could come up with where the chicks were more or less oriented the same way otherwise they were pointed to all the points on a compass!
I saw several families of mallards and wigeons at Potter Marsh recently, however this was the largest family with actually more than the seven chicks pictured here. What surprised me was how contentious the hens were towards each other, the mallard vs wigeon hens, at one point actually going after each other, all the while shepherding their chicks around to find food.
Taken 19 July 2018 at Potter Marsh, Anchorage, Alaska.
Plenty of dabbling going on!
Mallard chicks forming a line to dabble with their mom! About the best shot I could come up with where the chicks were more or less oriented the same way otherwise they were pointed to all the points on a compass!
I saw several families of mallards and wigeons at Potter Marsh recently, however this was the largest family with actually more than the seven chicks pictured here. What surprised me was how contentious the hens were towards each other, the mallard vs wigeon hens, at one point actually going after each other, all the while shepherding their chicks around to find food.
Taken 19 July 2018 at Potter Marsh, Anchorage, Alaska.