An unusual looking hybrid. Looks like a cross between a mallard and a muscovy duck.
A baby mallard in December!
A coot and a gull fighting over bread that someone threw in the lake.
Duck butts!
A lone female bufflehead. Not a common duck here.
A ring neck duck taking a bath.
Drying off.
I cannot figure out what kind of duck this is. Is it a hybrid of some sort? I’ve only seen one at the lake. That pink beak and the pink legs are amazing as well as the eyes.
I found out today that this is a Coscoroba swan. It is the smallest of all swans and comes from South America. The city of Lakeland bought a pair for the lake last January. At this point there is only one at the lake.
There are so many different ducks at Lake Morton in downtown Lakeland. They are known for having swans on the lake but there are a lot more ducks there and so many different ones. It’s fun just to walk around and look at all the duck action going on.
Your photos are really special; the baby mallard is so cute. I am really developing an amazing appreciation for those special birds capable of floating and swimming.
cuties !! I especially like the duck butts 🙂
Fantactic bird photos. And those butts are so cute.
Looks like a new breed of duck you’ve discovered there.
Wonderful! Lovely!
The photo of the coot and the gull is my favorite!
Quack, quack, quack. You took some great shots.
The View from the Top of the Ladder
It’s a wonderful place — I envy you getting to stop by often. I’m just trying to talk Bill into driving there again this season.
That duck looks like a peking duck, or a hybrid of peking and mallard. All domestic ducks, except the muscovy came from the mallards. You see a lot of strange looking ducks in city ponds, due to hybridization. Ring-necked ducks are VERY different and are native ducks.