All Quaked Up
 

This beautiful duck visited our pond. Can anyone pehaps from Ducks Unlimited identify my visiter!

Looks like a Mallard hen.

I looked up more than 20 mallard hens and the main difffence was they all lack the blue on its side, tks

Eric,

How 'bout this one? http://www.ducks.org/news-media/news...-month-gadwall

Looks like you have it and a cool site. Tks!!

My favorite is an osprey who has her nest accros the street. All are attractd to the natural pond in the back" White heron, dumby duck and the 2 siblings. Thanks for your help! except for the little whites herons who feed on worms and insects.

We are lucky to have all these in different seasons
 

They are not fearful of humans

Eric, your duck looks like it might be a hybrized Black Duck-Mallard cross. I suggest this because Black Ducks should not be in Florida at this time of year and both species frequently interbreed. I was an avid duck hunter for over twenty years.

Come on down! Unfortunatly we live in the city and not the county where there is open game. I bet your a member of 'Ducks Unlimitated'!