IMG_4448
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Comment by KarenNfld:
Lovely shot of it!!

IMG_4123
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Comment by KarenNfld:
Very pretty.

IMG_4571
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Comment by KarenNfld:
How nice!!

IMG_4138
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Comment by Pug-H:
It's an African grey parrot - a fairly popular pet bird, I believe.

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Comment by cdpayne:
Thank you! :)

IMG_3648
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Comment by cdpayne:
Yeah, it's ridiculously hard to get a shot of this duck close....as he rarely comes this close to the shore of the lake.

Male Wood Duck
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Comment by cdpayne:
Come to San Diego, and I will take you to see more wood ducks than you can shoot in a day...LOL. They really are an amazingly beautiful duck!

Mallard Duck
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Comment by cdpayne:
I love that the perfect angle on his head here shows hint of the green you see when they are coming at you, and the purple you see when they are going away from you.

Hybrid Mallard Duck
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Comment by cdpayne:
Just wait till I upload what I call the "Dalmation Duck" that also lives here...lol. These ducks here...well...I doubt they are very selective of which other ducks they choose to mate with.

Hybrid Mallard Duck
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Comment by cdpayne:
scooter - The purple head on a mallard is when you view them from behind, with the duck between you and the sun. The same duck swimming towards you will look like it has a green head. I love that about them. I see the same effect on the shovel nose duck at these lakes.

This duck's head is mostly black with a very faint hint of a dark green stripe going back from his eye, which is a characteristic of a different duck seen at these lakes a lot...so I'm sure there's a lot of interbreeding going on here.