- Messages
- 5,548
- Name
- mike
- Edit My Images
- Yes
Daniel she is a silver call duck. Call ducks were bred around the turn of the last century,not the one just turned. They were bred to be carried out onto the marshes and tethered to act as a decoy for wildfowlers to draw in wild duck,two factors were principal in what the guys wanted to breed back then ne that they would be small...easy to carry(imagine carrying 4 Aylesbury's on to a marsh lol) and two, that bloody noisy quack to call in the wild ducks from distance.....always makes me feel like they are laughing
Daniel I keep them, have shown them, was brit waterfowl breeder of the year or something at one time. Orininally they were just mallard coloured or white,but now they come in a huge variety of standardised colours. Mate you ought to see then as ducklings they are just about the cutest thing on the planet. They are actually a genetic dwarf see how short the beak is legs are small too. The beak is a real give away isolating this from a minature silver appleyard or similar.
Ahh mate it's a shame some folks get ducks domestic and wild,keep them a while and then dump them,we have the same here but it's not just the domestic ducks getting dumped things like mandarins are too,which shouldn't really be part of our ecosystem,even though they are a joy to see. Sure sometimes they simply escape as with the north american ruddy duck which can cause real problems for native species.......read about euopean white headed duck and NARD's.
There ya go buddy for once a little give back for all the times you have tried to help me with this game of photography
She's a cutie, so a photography question ,I'd bet she carries a black saddle across that dark blue bill,is there any possible way that more detail could have been captured with a back lit image such as this on a predominantly white bird with a very dark bill?. Mate I think you did well and maybe I'm asking for something that is simply not possible,but hey nothing to lose
take care
stu
Just had goose dumping on the lake i use,these two turned up the other day,