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Shot one hand swimming in freezing cold water with an unprotected RX100II
'Chalk and cheese'.
A pair of beautiful Gadwall, Anus strepera dabbling ducks in close contact, I'd love to know what he was saying to her? North Lincolnshire. The male is on the left showing his finely barred and freckled plumage and black bill in total contrast. to the female, a fine example of sexual dimorphism. Fewer than 2,000 pairs of Gadwall nest in the UK, but large numbers winter here.
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Gadwall Notes and Information:
The Gadwall is a dabbling duck, feeding at the surface of shallow water by 'upending' - putting its head down and its bottom up! Only a small number of Gadwall nest in the UK, but large numbers winter here.
Species information:
Category : Waterfowl
Statistics:
Length: 48-54cm
Wingspan: 90cm
Weight: 700-830g
Average lifespan: 4 years
Conservation status:
Classified in the UK as Amber under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2015). Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
When to see : January to December
About:
A fairly common dabbling duck found throughout the year, the gadwall is only a little smaller than a Mallard. It nests in small numbers in the UK, on freshwater lakes with lots of vegetation, but can be seen in large numbers in winter at reservoirs, lakes, flooded gravel pits and coastal wetlands.
How to identify:
Male Gadwalls are a grey-brown colour with a black rear end. Both males and females can be distinguished by the white patches on their wings.
Distribution:
Mainly found in south and eastern England, but can be seen anywhere.
Habitats:
FreshwaterCoastalWetlands
Did you know?
Gadwall can sometimes be seen following coot around. After the a coot has dived down to pick waterweed, the opportunistic Gadwall will grab some for itself TWT Notes.
Teals are small dabbling ducks. Males have chestnut coloured heads with broad green eye-patches, a spotted chest, grey lower sides and a black edged yellow tail. Females are mottled brown. Both show bright green wing patches (speculum) in flight. They are thinly distributed as a breeding species with a preference for northern moors and mires. In winter, birds gather in low-lying wetland in the south and west of the UK. Of these, many are continental birds from around the Baltic and Siberia. At this time, the UK is home to a significant percentage of the north-west European wintering population making it an Amber List species.
The breeding male mallard is unmistakable, with a glossy bottle-green head and white collar which demarcates the head from the purple-tinged brown breast, grey brown wings, and a pale grey belly. The rear of the male is black, with the dark tail having white borders. The bill of the male is a yellowish orange tipped with black while that of the female is generally darker ranging from black to mottled orange. The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe
Mallards (Anas platyfhynchod) male an female. In the canal at Wildwood Park.
It was high time for a bit of dabble with the Signature Geralt mesh body and head. He deserved some TLC.
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The Mallard Duck or Wild Duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical countries. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae. The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly!
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I posted two shots this male and a female.
Photographed in a local park in
Edmonton, Alberta
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Old proverb: "Birds of a feather flock together."
Three male American Wigeon ducks with the brilliant green breeding colors on their heads and one female.
Quiet lakes and wetlands come alive with the breezy whistle of the American Wigeon, a dabbling duck with pizzazz. Breeding males have a green eye patch and a conspicuous white crown, earning them the nickname "baldpate." Females are brushed in warm browns with a gray-brown head and a smudge around the eye. Noisy groups congregate during fall and winter, plucking plants with their short gooselike bill from wetlands and fields or nibbling plants from the water's surface. Despite being common their populations are declining. www.allaboutbirds.org
The mallard or wild duck is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Taken Yeadon Tarn.
I've been at it again, dabbling with Geralt! Just the body this time cause I did a head transplant. You can get the deets on my blog:
In 2050, scientists began dabbling in genetics, and unknowingly unleashed a virus that transformed susceptible humans into ragin alien-like creatures. 95% of the world's population was infected. The other 5% were only spared because they were in remote locations or away from large amounts of people. Months later, what remained of teh world's government banded together in what was known as the IDA (International Defence Association) to counter the mutant threat. However, they were short of survivors, so they enlisted a man called Axel to help find the survivors and help their plight.
Axel has managed to trace a call for help signal to the base of a top secret organisation working for the government. After the remaining agents, Yvonne, Robert and Michael, meet Axel, they are attacked by a Phase 2 mutant and a Phase 3 Mutant.
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The Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa), commonly known as the PBD, is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east. It is usually called the grey duck in New Zealand, where it is also known by its Maori name, pārera. This sociable duck is found in a variety of wetland habitats, and its nesting habits are much like those of the mallard, which is encroaching on its range in New Zealand. It feeds by upending, like other Anas ducks. The Pacific Black Duck is mainly vegetarian, feeding on seeds of aquatic plants. This diet is supplemented with small crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic insects. 5268
Moremi Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
African Pygmy Goose in Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. The bird was photographed while it was swimming in a pool of water we crossed by bridge on the way back to camp. The male was swimming with its mate.
The African Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus) is a perching duck from sub-Saharan Africa. It is the smallest of Africa's wildfowl, and one of the smallest in the world.
Though pygmy geese have beaks like those of geese, they are more related to the dabbling ducks and other species called 'ducks'.
It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
The African Pygmy Goose is one of the smallest of the perching ducks, and it has the average weight of about 285 grams (10.1 oz) for males and 260 grams (9.2 oz) for females. The females have a grayish color with dark eye patches while the males have a white face with vibrant green ear patches and metallic green on their back.
The African Pygmy Goose is known to be nomadic. It can be found across a wide area of sub-Saharan Africa. It prefers inland wetlands with vegetation such as water lilies. It sometimes occupies open swamps, farm dens, river pools, and estuaries. - from Wikipedia
Last year I had the opportunity to watch a gadwall pair in a popular park where sometimes interesting migrating waterfowl join the numerous mallards in late winter/early spring. Wish the light had been better and the water not such a gross color, but I love this dapper drake’s intricate feather patterns! He’s a chubby cheeked pleasing pile of curves!
'In or Out of the Water'. The beautiful Wigeon Female dabbling duck at waters edge, South Yorkshire.
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Notes:
The wigeon is a colourful duck that can often be spotted wheeling round our winter skies in large flocks. A dabbling duck, it surface-feeds on plants and seeds in shallow waters.
Species information
Category:Waterfowl
Statistics
Length: 43-48cm
Wingspan: 80cm
Weight: 650-800g
Average lifespan: 3 years
Conservation status
Classified in the UK as Amber under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2015). Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
When to see
January to December
About
A common dabbling duck, the wigeon is a winter visitor that gathers in large numbers, particularly on wet grasslands, floodplain meadows, flooded gravel pits and reservoirs with gently sloping edges where they can easily get out onto the grassy banks. Wigeon can be spotted dabbling in close-knit groups or flying in tight formations over wetlands.
How to identify
The wigeon is a medium-sized duck with a round head and short bill. Males are grey with a pink breast, orange head, yellow forehead and obvious white wing patches that can be seen when they fly. Females are similar to Mallard females, but with rusty brown plumage and a pointed tail.
Distribution
Found throughout the country in winter, with large numbers congregating in coastal areas. It breeds in Scotland and Northern England in very small numbers.
Habitats
FreshwaterFarmlandCoastalWetlands
Did you know?
The large numbers of wigeon that visit our wetlands in winter help to place this bird on the Amber list of the UK's Red List for Birds - a national measure of the state of, and threats to, our bird populations. Wildlife Trust Notes.
Whilst on my travels around the Dorset coast earlier in the week I spotted my first Duckling of 2015, there must have been about a dozen of these cute little things dabbling around in a small pond, not the most challenging subject but lovely to see and photograph all the same! ò¿ò
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'Up close'. Portrait of a Nuthatch...Study of its powerful nut cracking beak. A wary bird, always listening, looking out and checking their surroundings. Bluebell Wood, West Yorkshire.
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Nuthatch- 21 facts
The name nuthatch is derived from nut hacker, reflecting the bird's method of opening up nuts by jamming them into a crevice then hammering at them.
Old country names include mud dabbler and mud stopper, both of which note the bird's curious habit of plastering mud around the entrance hole to its nest.
Unlike the treecreeper, which only moves up the trunk of a tree, nuthatches will move both up and down.
Once a bird restricted largely to south-eastern England, the 20th century witnessed a spread to the north, with breeding in Scotland first confirmed in 1989.
Studies have shown that large gardens with oak trees provide the optimum habitat for this species.
One of the reasons for the expansion seems to be the nuthatch's increasing use of bird feeders and bird tables.
As anyone who has nuthatches visiting their feeders will know, they are bold and aggressive, able to stand their ground when larger birds such as starlings attempt to intimidate them.
They will take food from the bird table to store elsewhere: this can lead to sunflowers sprouting in expected places.
Pairs are strongly territorial throughout the year. The fact that food is stored within the territory strengthens the need to defend it.
Though they will readily adopt nest boxes, they cannot resist plastering mud around the entrance hole, even if the latter is already the right size.
The most favoured natural site for a nuthatch is the old nest hole of a great spotted woodpecker.
Nuthatches are one of the nosiest woodland birds in the early spring, but are relatively silent when breeding.
There are 24 different species of nuthatches in the world: our bird has much the widest distribution, as it breeds continually from Portugal to Korea and Japan.
The nuthatch has never been recorded in Ireland.
Most nuthatches are highly sedentary, seldom moving far from where they hatched.
The average distance travelled by a ringed adult nuthatch is less than kilometre.
No British-ringed individuals have ever been recovered abroad, while similarly no birds ringed on the Continent have been found here.
Individuals breeding in Sweden and Norway have distinctive white underparts, unlike the peachy buff of our birds.
Remarkably, a red-breasted nuthatch from North America spent nearly seven months at Holkham in Norfolk from October 1989 to May 1990.
Perhaps surprisingly, the nuthatch has received little in the way of study in Britain, and most of our knowledge comes from work carried out in Sweden and Belgium.
Numbers are known to fluctuate quite widely from year to year, probably reflecting the availability of seed during the winter. Living with birds notes.
There were well over 60 Northern Shovelers (Anas clypeata) at the Glendale Recharge Ponds last weekend (in the middle of the sunny day). I love this dabbling duck - such a cool looking bill!
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A male American Wigeon flying above an ice covered ocean in Esquimalt Lagoon.
The American Wigeon is a Dabbling Duck and unlike other Dabblers it sports a shorter bill. It also feeds on a diet higher in plant matter than other Dabbling Ducks. It can be found foraging on land and also hangs out in deeper water where it steals vegetation from diving birds as they surface.
A Mallard Duck Drake (Anas platyrhynchos)
gets ready to land at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. With over 10 million mallards residing in North America alone, the Mallards are one of the best-known and most recognizable ducks. the mallard is a dabbling duck found throughout temperate and sub-tropical areas around the world. The most abundant and wide-ranging duck on earth. The mallard usually inhabits the freshwaters of North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. Mallards usually feed on plants, such as grass seeds, leaves, stems, and aquatic plants, and vegetation like grains, rice, oats, and corn. However, they are also seen feeding on insects, mollusks, small fish, tadpoles, freshwater snails, fish eggs, frogs, and crustaceans.
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A mixed flock of mainly Teal and Pochard enjoying the sunshine on a meandering stream in the freshmarsh.
The last day of April 2025 and another trip to WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire.
There was a group of six Gadwall flying around over the outer fields and Tack Piece Lagoon at Slimbridge. I Spent time catching individual Ducks.
The Gadwall is a very grey-coloured dabbling duck, a little smaller than the Mallard, and with an obvious black rear end. It shows a white wing patch in flight. When seen close up the grey/brown colour is made up of exquisitely fine barring and speckling.
I've seen someone use a 1x6 railing wit 4 studs for the front. My model has a mudguard (or a lip) arund the front, which is off, but better than nothing. Trying to incorporate this 1x7x3 railing didn't work, but I just wanted to show you that a model never really is finished.
I like to dabble in all kids of photography from time to time. Here's a landscape at sunset on the island of Mallorca.
I've been dabbling with this one for quite a while and never been fully happy with it. Handheld you see, and as a result, and despite the superlative capabilities of this camera, there is a little bit too much noise for my liking.
But, life's too short to be faffing around with this forever and a day so please enjoy this for what it is.
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Cluke
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six or seven living (and one extinct) species of swan in the genus Cygnus; in addition, there is another species known as the coscoroba swan, although this species is no longer considered one of the true swans. Swans usually mate for life, although 'divorce' sometimes occurs, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage but the Southern Hemisphere species are mixed black and white. The Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) is completely black except for the white flight feathers on its wings; the chicks of black swans are light grey.
The Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa), commonly known as the PBD, is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east. It is usually called the grey duck in New Zealand, where it is also known by its Maori name, pārera. This sociable duck is found in a variety of wetland habitats, and its nesting habits are much like those of the mallard, which is encroaching on its range in New Zealand. It feeds by upending, like other Anas ducks. The Pacific Black Duck is mainly vegetarian, feeding on seeds of aquatic plants. This diet is supplemented with small crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic insects. R_29664
"Unlike dabbling ducks, Hooded Mergansers swim low in the water. Their legs are far back on their bodies, which helps in diving but makes them awkward on land. They take flight by running across the water, flying with fast wingbeats and never gliding until they are about to land (by skidding to a stop on the water). Hooded Mergansers are usually in pairs or small groups of up to 40 birds. " Cornell
Dabbling ducks near the shoreline, in the upper Niagara River…
Mallards and Gadwalls
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With over 10 million mallards residing in North America alone, the Mallards are one of the best-known and most recognizable ducks. the mallard is a dabbling duck found throughout the temperate and sub-tropical areas around the world. The most abundant and wide-ranging duck on earth. The mallard usually inhabits the freshwaters of North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. Mallards usually feed on plants, such as grass seeds, leaves, stems and aquatic plants, and vegetation like grains, rice, oats and corn. However, they are also seen feeding on insects, mollusks, small fish, tadpoles, freshwater snails, fish eggs, frogs and crustaceans. This mating pair of Mallards was photographed at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.
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This beautiful male American Wigeon was swimming all by himself when we caught sight of him. He moved so gracefully in the water and made ripples as he swam and hunted for his lunch. While most dabbling ducks are denizens of the shallows, American Wigeons spend much of their time in flocks grazing on land. Paradoxically, they also spend more time than other marsh ducks on deep water, where they get much of their food by stealing it from other birds such as coots or diving ducks. This duck was once known as "Baldpate" because of its white crown.
The last day of April 2025 and another trip to WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire.
There was a group of six Gadwall flying around over the outer fields and Tack Piece Lagoon at Slimbridge. I Spent time catching individual Ducks.
The Gadwall is a very grey-coloured dabbling duck, a little smaller than the Mallard, and with an obvious black rear end. It shows a white wing patch in flight. When seen close up the grey/brown colour is made up of exquisitely fine barring and speckling.
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