All Quaked Up

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 09:34 AM

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

Neil Young · 09-10-2012, 09:59 AM

Looks like a Mallard hen.

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 11:32 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, 12:45 PM

Eric,

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

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 12:59 PM

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

cirelaw · 09-10-2012, 01:41 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, 02:16 PM

They are not fearful of humans

George Anderson · 09-10-2012, 06:09 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, 06:14 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, 09:59 AM	#2
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 552 Thanks: 567 Thanked 449 Times in 170 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, 12:45 PM	#4
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,401 Thanks: 7,561 Thanked 2,643 Times in 1,393 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, 12:59 PM	#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, 06:09 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, 06:14 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'!