If You Wait...

If You Wait… all that Happens is You Get Older.

- Larry McMurtry

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Went out this morning looking for Goslings as it’s that time of year. I found a Canada Goose Family with goslings in tow, but it was this Mallard Duck Male flashing his feathers that caught my eye. Looks like the Goslings will come to my gallery a bit later : )

 

Mallards are large ducks with hefty bodies, rounded heads, and wide, flat bills. Like many “dabbling ducks” the body is long and the tail rides high out of the water, giving a blunt shape. In flight their wings are broad and set back toward the rear.

 

Male Mallards have a dark, iridescent-green head and bright yellow bill. The gray body is sandwiched between a brown breast and black rear. Females and juveniles are mottled brown with orange-and-brown bills. Both sexes have a white-bordered, blue “speculum” patch in the wing.

 

Mallards are “dabbling ducks”—they feed in the water by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants. They almost never dive. They can be very tame ducks especially in city ponds, and often group together with other Mallards and other species of dabbling ducks.

 

Mallards can live in almost any wetland habitat, natural or artificial. Look for them on lakes, ponds, marshes, rivers, and coastal habitats, as well as city and suburban parks and residential backyards.

 

- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 

 

(200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/3200 @ f/6.3, ISO 1000, edited to taste)

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