In mid-January I stopped at Largo Nature Preserve to see if any new winter ducks were there. The preserve is a great little park just off a crazy busy main road. It’s quiet once you get on the trail and every once in a while I find something different here. There were a lot of pied grebes along the ditches. They are common here in the winter.
You can always find mallards here.
The find this morning was the northern shovelers that were bathing and feeding close to the trail. They are usually skittish and paddle away when they see someone coming but they just ignored the traffic on the trail this morning. There were males in both bright colored breeding feathers and in the drab brown non-breeding feathers.
There was also some females sticking together farther down the trail.
Beautiful captures of the cute Grebes and all the ducks. The Shovelers are beautiful, one of my favorites. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, enjoy your day and happy weekend.
Gorgeous photos of the ducks. There are so many species, and I don’t know all their names, but that’s okay, you can still enjoy them. It’s nice that they weren’t so shy now. I think they just have spring fever.
Aritha
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This is a nice collection of quackers.
Grebes are so darned cute.
Great shots.