Female Mallard with one of it's 7 ducklings
Taken on the River Stort in Hertfordshire
EOS 1DMK3 100-400 @ 400 f10 1/320 sec iso400 - Handheld
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Female Mallard with one of it's 7 ducklings
Taken on the River Stort in Hertfordshire
EOS 1DMK3 100-400 @ 400 f10 1/320 sec iso400 - Handheld
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What a nice composition on this one. Not to mention the cuteness factor :D
Pete:
A very cute picture but I am puzzled by the coloration of the mom. Our Mallard hens have a brown/tawny breast, no white. Is this a morph, or variant specific to the UK?
Randy
These birds result from mixing of wild mallards with feral farm ducks. This one is definitely a mongrel.