On Golden Pond

by Lois Bryan

Title

On Golden Pond

Artist

Lois Bryan

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Digital Art - Photography / Digital Art

Description

A perfect mallard duck floats toward me in the afternoon light of a perfect April day at the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo in Thurmont, Maryland.

http://www.cwpzoo.com/

The following is from the Cornel Lab of Ornithology:
( copy and paste Cornell's address and scroll down to hear the mallard's "song"!! http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mallard/id )


Size & Shape
Mallards are large ducks with hefty bodies, rounded heads, and wide, flat bills. Like many �dabbling ducks� the body is long and the tail rides high out of the water, giving a blunt shape. In flight their wings are broad and set back toward the rear.

Color Pattern
Male Mallards have a dark, iridescent-green head and bright yellow bill. The gray body is sandwiched between a brown breast and black rear. Females and juveniles are mottled brown with orange-and-brown bills. Both sexes have a white-bordered, blue �speculum� patch in the wing.

Behavior
Mallards are �dabbling ducks��they feed in the water by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants. They almost never dive. They can be very tame ducks especially in city ponds, and often group together with other Mallards and other species of dabbling ducks.

Habitat
Mallards can live in almost any wetland habitat, natural or artificial. Look for them on lakes, ponds, marshes, rivers, and coastal habitats, as well as city and suburban parks and residential backyards.

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February 13th, 2013

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