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

[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).