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Trailmaster
04-01-2012, 07:36 PM
Took our little guy to beacon hill park yesterday and snapped some pics of the ducks, some I cant ID. The first one I know its a euro widgeon.
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/IMG_5633.jpghttp://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/IMG_5638.jpg
Not sure about this one, looks to be a widgeon mallard cross or maybe a eclipse or young drake?
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/IMG_5683.jpghttp://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/IMG_5689.jpg
Now this one? its got mallard in it for sure, but where the color of the body comes from I don't know, can ducks inter breed?
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/IMG_5696.jpg

Trailmaster
04-01-2012, 07:37 PM
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/Trailmaster10/IMG_5698.jpg

Crazy_Farmer
04-01-2012, 07:55 PM
2nd is a Pintail/Mallard hybird 100%. Always are nice looking birds.

3rd is a either a pigment issue, blonde or dark, or a mix with ducks down the line, call ducks or black east indian ducks. You'll see those and white bibbed mallards all the time at parks. Normally they're bigger or smaller then the average of the mallards around them.

Nice pics of the euro, I have a juvie mounted on the wall but always look for red when targetting wigeon.

Trailmaster
04-01-2012, 08:01 PM
I spotted the euro fro the truck before we even parked, the wife was not as excited as I, now that I look a the 2nd one I see the pintail in it, I was thinking widgeon because mallards and widgeons were all that were there, so I though a mix of those.

MOUNTAIN MAN - TOYOTA/ATV
04-01-2012, 08:09 PM
Nice pictures of the ducks.