Thanks for sharing.

posting this under yours was an accident. Glad you liked it. And here is another one: I was wrong about having just one, I found a few more looking for river photographs for the next contest. I would call this a camouflage duck.

He's my little duckling dog.
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Cutie!

ducking

That is a very cool photo. Ducks follow the water wherever it leads.

My five year old grandson must think I am into ducks. Well, our entertainment over the years has been to take seeds and even bread to the lake at the park where they don't disallow duck feeding. Anyway, he made sure that I knew that after a big rain, there was some sort of huge puddle in his other grandmother's back yard, and there were ducks swimming around in the puddle. I thought it was pretty cute that he tried to tap into my interests like that. But I told him next time I needed a photo of it!!

in a line, it reminds me of the ducks at the Peabody Hotel. They are trained to come down from the roof of the hotel every day, on the elevator, and then swim around in the fountain in the lobby for most of the day. I need to get a photo of that, or better yet, a movie clip.

Did you see the post here about the eagles someplace near Seattle? Maybe you can get some pictures. Sounds amazing. I think I remember you live around there?

Now the trick is to remember what it said! I live north of Seattle, in Everett. Good memory!

does it tend to want to learn to play soccer?

Love to see the wood ducks on the wood. They are my faves. I hope I am identifying them correctly..............

The best duck(ling) action shot in the thread. What a great catch! Amazing.

Just splashing around.



And log rolling.

was it really rolling? I like the vantage point on this one.

Thanks. They look a lot like the ones around here

Love your last duckie!

Here is a cool story about them ringing bells

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/902214-you-rang-mallard-ducks-take-over-bell-ringing-duties-from-shy-swans

Funny

Best picture to me is the one with ducklings in the puddle. Adorable.

Is it there all the time, or was this a special occasion?

Now, in Nara there are deer of all types EVERYWHERE.

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Welcome. I had never heard of a runner duck and had to look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Runner_Duck

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It is almost surreal looking. What an unusual angle! Pretty cool.

Some family members are HUGE Ducks fans.

Ducks and one swan
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Doing a swan dive?

I love it. That last one is great.

Ducks love to huddle together in the cold, I have noticed.

And as for huddling in the cold, we have a group of them that stay up here in the wintertime in one little city park -- I think there are people who feed them and that's why they stay. In the dead of winter, they look like penguins at the South Pole.

last winter...

Makes me want a picture of a duck with its butt in the air! I never have aspired for that, but now I will. Nice shot!

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the splash is low enough not to cover it up. The coloring from this vantage point looks almost geometric! Editing to say the coloring pattern looks a bit art deco!

Thought about editing that out, but then the pic looked boring.

Too funny!

but i wanted to thank you for an awesome thread. Really enjoyed the photos.

Always fun when people join in when there are so many different takes to the subject.

And who doesn't like ducks? Now geese can be a bit controversial, LOL.

I see all but the third one around here.

I have NEVER seen a duck on a wire. LOL. That is too ridiculous.

I never had either. Apparently they're one of the only ones that do. Photo's are not the best. Pre dawn, in the rain.

I love how delicate the feathers seem..........

It was taken at Xochimilco during our trip down there.