Growing Ducklings + Duclair

[yourlibrarian]

In my last post I updated about the baby geese we'd had around our lake. The earlier duckling batches I posted pics from have now morphed into many many ducks around our place.





The ducklings began stretching out in what seemed like a week.



Then they began to morph out of their fuzziness.



Soon they were looking like teen ducks, followed by looking like adults, just a little smaller.



In the meantime we spotted a different looking duck amidst the adults.



Apparently this is a duclair duck, the first we've ever seen.



Although with all the grown ducklings, he's less easy to spot now, we saw him the other day. No idea if there's a nest of his babies in process.

Comments

[shirebound]

How delightful to be living next to Duck Lake!

[yourlibrarian]

Yup, we see duck butt every morning, which is never not amusing 😉

[necco]

beautiful :')

[yourlibrarian]

They are some cuties.

[adafrog]

They grow so fast!

Haven't heard of a duclair duck.

[yourlibrarian]

We hadn't either -- when we first saw it we wondered if it was just a genetic anomaly but apparently not!

[weofodthignen]

So many baby ducks made it! Your lake is obviously good habitat. That handsome fellow looked like a mixed breed to me, and some reading confirmed it; the Duclair ducks arose as crosses of domestic ducks (the white) with wild (presumably also mallards).

[yourlibrarian]

A lot of them made it this year, for sure. Usually the survival rate is pretty dismal but given how many ducks we have this was a banner year.

Oh interesting! I wonder if our Ghost Duck had babies and this is the result? (Though if so, I don't know why there would be only one).

[sparowe]

Handsome fellow, I don't believe I've seen one before, either!

[yourlibrarian]

The curled tail feathers caught my eye 🙂

[silveradept]

Those are still adorable ducklings, although now I guess they're very cute ducks.

[yourlibrarian]

Haha, yes, they're all mixed in with the adults now

[turlough]

Adorable ducklings! And the duclair duck is so striking! I've never seen a duck like it before.

[yourlibrarian]

We hadn't either, and learned a new duck!