Thursday 30 March 2017

Quackers not Quakers

The River Devon mallards are looking at their finest, and acting at their feistiest. There's a fair bit of scrapping, mating, and very angry swimming going on, the high speed head down variety.

They don't take it as far as the coots though. I've watched a coot take off and fly 50 plus metres in order to attack another bird minding its own business elsewhere!

Si

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3 comments:

  1. Coots are seriously deranged birds; they also kill their own young sometimes for no apparent reason.

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  2. Great pictures of the Mallards.

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