This guy looks like the dark shadow side of the mallard you have posted. What an expression!
Mallards and Shovelers may be similar in the broad strokes but they are amazingly dissimilar in the details. The Shoveler bill is a wonder unto itself. JK.
That may be so, but I tell you the look in his eye says, “Stay out of my path, Mallard, or you’ll wish you never landed in this pond!”
This guy looks like the dark shadow side of the mallard you have posted. What an expression!
Mallards and Shovelers may be similar in the broad strokes but they are amazingly dissimilar in the details. The Shoveler bill is a wonder unto itself. JK.
That may be so, but I tell you the look in his eye says, “Stay out of my path, Mallard, or you’ll wish you never landed in this pond!”