Muddy white ducks. If you zoom in, you can see the blue eyes.
Posts Tagged ‘domestic duck’
Muddy Pekins
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, domestic malllard, Pekin duck on June 24, 2017|
A bit past peak
Posted in birds, Carnivorans, West Virginia, tagged bobcat, domestic duck, Eastern wild turkey, fall foliage, Pekin duck, quaking aspen, Rouen duck, wild turkey on October 26, 2015| 4 Comments »
The last flame of autumn:
(I don’t know why he went into eclipse! He’s too young!)
Bobcat track. You’ve already seen the bobcat, though:
Quaking aspens against a blue sky:
Wild turkeys trying to hide:
From a little baby to a big duck
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, duckling, Rouen duck on August 1, 2015|
95 percent a man
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, domestic mallard, Pekin duck, Rouen duck on July 26, 2015|
He’s almost done growing in his adult breeding plumage:
And he has discovered his purpose in life, nailing two pekin hens within five minutes:
Getting pretty
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, domestic mallard, Rouen duck on July 17, 2015|
Greenface
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, Rouen drake, Rouen duck on July 13, 2015| 3 Comments »
Pond foragers
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, Pekin duck, Rouen duck on June 27, 2015|
Getting to be big ducks now.
Look at that drake plumage! He’s 13 weeks old, and it’s coming in strong.
Boys to men
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, domestic mallard, Rouen duck on June 22, 2015| 1 Comment »
The two Rouen drakes are now growing in their adult plumage now. I can see some green feathers on their heads now. It won’t be long before they are full greenheads. Their gray penciled feathers are coming in, and their breasts are now a chestnut color.
If you’ve seen my recent videos, they are also making the drake vocalization, which sounds like some kind of frog. It’s not a quack. Only hens quack.
Mealworm pigs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged domestic duck, domestic mallard, mallard, Pekin duck, Rouen duck on June 22, 2015|
Drill, baby, drill!
Posted in birds, tagged domestic duck, domestic mallard, Duck, filter-feeding, Rouen duck on June 20, 2015|
Mallard derivatives often engage in a foraging behavior that some people call “drilling.” Whenever these ducks encounter standing water, their instincts tell them that water has tendency to draw out worms and other invertebrates. The best way to capitalize on this situation is to stick their bills into the water or mud and to force the water out of through these tooth-like structures on the insides of their mouths. Any worms or invertebrates that are caught on these structures are quickly eaten.
It is almost like how baleen whales feed, but it’s done much smaller amounts of water and so rapidly that it appears as if the ducks are drilling into the at full steam.
They use this same method on the water, but on land, they can easily turn an area into a muddy morass in very short order.
This is what they left behind after only about 15 minutes drilling.