There’s not a lot of choice down at the pond at the moment. The cormorants have vanished, and I’ve not seen a heron for a while either. I could photograph the herring and black-headed gulls, but it’s the ducks which are putting on the main display.
The first sequence is a little white duck being ‘pursued’ by a gaggle of large runner ducks.
Not all the ducks were as active. This is a large hybrid who has taken to nestling down on an ivy-clad stone wall. She’s been there most mornings this week.
On another wall (the ducks seem to be keen to keep out of the mud), a male mallard standing to attention.
And just along from him, a female mallard sits contentedly contemplating the day.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
derWandersmann
22 Mar 2013Lots of hybridising going on, eh, Words?
gdare
25 Mar 2013The last one is just playing sitting duck, eh? 😀
:yikes:
Words
26 Mar 2013Drako, ouch! Yes, I feel like I'm the sitting duck for missing that one.
Words
26 Mar 2013dW, I do wonder what on earth they'll produce, and can only hope that we get some decent weather to cive the chicks a chance. Last year very few survived the wet weather.