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I may have skipped #TwoDuckTuesday yesterday, but I do have a pair of #TuftedDucks for today’s #WednesdayWaterbirds

#DuckOfTheDay #LowCarbonBirding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #AthythaFuligula

Two tufted ducks swimming alongside each other, the female slightly ahead but further from the camera. They look sleek and healthy. The male is ink black with a white side and an elegant swept back tuft, the female browner and more subtle.

I turn my back for five minutes, and does anyone else post a #MondayMallard? They do not. For shame.

#DuckOfTheDay #Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2025 #WWTSlimbridge

A glossy mallard drake, with a beautiful green head and fetching blue speculum, standing low in lushious green grass

Have a #ThursdayTuftie from #WWTSlimbridge - it is, unsurprisingly, the #DuckOfTheDay… is it just me, or does it look a bit stoned?

#TuftedDuck #AythyaFuligula #Duck #Birding

A close up of a handsome drake tufted duck, black with a white patch on its side. Its tuft is hanging down like a pony tail, and its eye looks part-closed and rather “out of it”.

Happy #ThreeDuckThursday, oh my #quackolytes!

#Mallard #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #AnasPlatyrhynchos #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #BirdsSeenIn2024

Three mallard ducks, a female between two males in a staggered line, swimming along on some green water.

It is #TwoDuckTuesday, so here is a pair of pochard, who “helpfully" took it in turns to dive so I couldn’t get them both in frame and in focus at the same time… feel free to pick either of them as your #DuckOfTheDay, and I hope the sight of them cheers you - especially if you’re in pain right now.
It is not the same duck twice, I promise!

#Pochard #PairOfPochard #AthythaFerina #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birding #Duckstodon #BirdPhotography

A pochard swimming diagonnaly towards the phtogorapher’s left. It has a pale grey body, black chest, and chestnut head with flecks of white. It looks a little like you might imagine a science fiction version of a duck looking, though not quite as much so as an eider.

Another pochard, swimming to the right and slightly away from the photographer. It has a dark behind, pale grey sides and a slightly paler looking head, with a beady amber eye… it could be plotting something and trying to look innocent.

The #WednesdayWaterbird is a #Gadwall, so that makes it the #DuckOfTheDay.

She’s etiher thinking about how pretty she is, or plotting nefarious deeds, and I know which my money is on.

#AnasStrepera #LowCarbonBirding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birding

A female gadwall swimming along looking elegent.

The world is awful, but ducks are brilliant. This is a #TuftedDuck, which is awesome. It is far away, but can come towards you, as can the good times.

It must be the #DuckOfTheDay, and far more interesting than politics #NiDuckNiMaitre

#LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Tuftie #AythyaFuligula

A slightly blurry picture of a tufted duck - black body, white wing, backward quiff - floating on slightly wavy water.

The #WeekendWaterbirds are #wigeon

#WWTWelney #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birding #MarecaPenelope #DuckOfTheDay

A pair of moderately nondescript ducks on a reedy lagoon, one mostly browny-grey, the other with a clearer grey body and chestnut coloured head with a yellow cap

These #WednesdayWaterbirds are, like me, wet, tired, a little blurry, and confused about what day of the week it is. They think it might be #TwoDuckTuesday, but it isn’t.

#DuckOfTheDay #Mallard #Duck #AnasPlatyrhynchos #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding

Two mallards, a male and a female, lying a few feet apart with their heads under their wings, on the edge of a narrow SUDS pond in the pouring rain. The female is better camouflaged and a little hard to pick out.

This #duckling says “Happy Easter”.

It must be the #DuckOfTheDay

#Mallard #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Duck #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #Birding #HappyEaster

A fluffy yellow duckling swimming on a green, weedy pond, with a stick, um, sticking out of the water behind it.

And this lady is definitely the #DuckOfTheDay

#Duck #Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #Birding

A female mallard floating on shallow water with grass poking through it around her

Did someone say #ThreeDuckThursday?

#LowCarbonBirding #Mallard #Duck #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birding #DuckOfTheDay

A brown, female mallard leads two more colourful males along what looks like a the water-filled bottom of a field drain with grassy sides - it is actually the river Flit.

Good morning, here is your #MondayMorningMallard as photographed on Friday’s walk

#DuckOfTheDay #MondayMallard #Mallard #Duck #BirdsSeenIn2025 #LowCarbonBirding #Birding

A female mallard swimming on the River Flit. She is brown and flecked, but a little glossy and looks in good health.

These #TuftedDucks are not ready for #TwoDuckTuesday

#DuckOfTheDay #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #AythyaFuligula #Duckstodon

Two tufted ducks, a male and a female, preening as they float on rippled water. Both have their heads down and look very unposed. The drake’s tuft is blowing about messily.

Isn’t the #MondayMallard a handsome chap? Did you know that duck a day keeps the blues away?

#DuckOfTheDay

#Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Duckstodon #DucksOfMastodon #Birding

A glossy mallard drake swimming gracefully along a green lode with reeds behind it. A couple of reed stems in the foreground cross in front of the duck, but apart from that it is less terrible than many of my pictures.

Have a pair of #wigeon this #TwoDuckTuesday
#DuckOfTheDay #Duck #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #AnasPenelope #Birdstodon #BirdsOfMastodon #Duckstodon #DucksOfMastodon

Two widgeon swimming on a shallow pool with grass poking up through it and reeds in the background. The female looks shady in silhouette, the male faces more towards the camera and the yellow on his crown looks bright and healthy against the brown on the rest of his head. Cool ducks.

I had a great morning's birding at Welney, with highlights including ducks, avocets, and three kinds of egret. There was also a spoonbill and a white fronted goose, QED:

#Birding #Spoonbill #WhiteFrontedGoose #Mallard #Ducks #DuckOfTheDay