All Quaked Up

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 08:34 AM

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

Neil Young · 09-10-2012, 08:59 AM

Looks like a Mallard hen.

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 10:32 AM

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

ithacaartist · 09-10-2012, 11:45 AM

Eric,

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

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 11:59 AM

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

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 12:41 PM

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.

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 01:16 PM

They are not fearful of humans

George Anderson · 09-10-2012, 05:09 PM

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.

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 05:14 PM

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'!

09-10-2012, 08:34 AM	#1
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	All Quaked Up This beautiful duck visited our pond. Can anyone pehaps from Ducks Unlimited identify my visiter! Attached Thumbnails

09-10-2012, 08:59 AM	#2
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 548 Thanks: 566 Thanked 443 Times in 168 Posts	Looks like a Mallard hen. __________________ Neil The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

09-10-2012, 10:32 AM	#3
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	I looked up more than 20 mallard hens and the main difffence was they all lack the blue on its side, tks Attached Images

09-10-2012, 11:45 AM	#4
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,374 Thanks: 7,447 Thanked 2,613 Times in 1,380 Posts	Eric, How 'bout this one? http://www.ducks.org/news-media/news...-month-gadwall __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

09-10-2012, 12:41 PM	#6
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	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. Attached Thumbnails

09-10-2012, 11:59 AM	#5
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	Looks like you have it and a cool site. Tks!!

09-10-2012, 01:16 PM	#7
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	We are lucky to have all these in different seasons They are not fearful of humans Attached Thumbnails Attached Images

09-10-2012, 05:09 PM	#8
George Anderson Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VA Posts: 3,592 Thanks: 1,773 Thanked 2,531 Times in 788 Posts	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.

09-10-2012, 05:14 PM	#9
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	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'!