Gräsand - Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard

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Hotheaded males in a fight

Some already has a female and don´t have to fight

Gräsand - Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard

© NF Photo 170113 

Mallards are hotheaded this time of year. 

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A little too much

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Mallards, probably a pair as the beaks is differently colored

Juvenile Eurasian coot

juv Horned Grebe swimming all alone. The parents seem to "have left the building"

© NF Photo 140729. Östra Vingåker

It does not look great with all the green stuff, algae,  on the water surface. But the birds don´t really seem to mind it.

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Mallard reflection

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Vit gräsand - White mallard drake

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Vit gräsand - White mallard drake
NF Photo 130110

I have been wondering about this bird. Now I was able to get shots where you can see the curved, tail, feathers. So, this has to be a drake. And with no color it also has to be an albino.

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Forest feeder and the lake

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 Nötväcka - Sitta europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch

 

 Svartmes - Parus ater - Coal Tit

 

 Större hackspett - Dendrocopos major - great spotted woodpecker

 

 Snatterand - Anas strepera - Gadwall

And mallards

 

Gräsand - Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard

NF Photo 121022, Näsnaren

They started the forest feeder for the winter so I went there to see what birds had come. Seems like most of the regulars found it. At the lake the mallards and the gadwells took off before i even got close. :( From the tower I spotted a strange looking female mallard. Her front and head was different.

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Gräsand - Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard

NF Photo 120213, Djulö Kvarn, Katrineholm

This event gave me a good laugh. To their disappointment I had no food with me.
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Strömstare - Cinclus cinclus - White-throated Dipper

This bird is the reason I went there. It has finally arrived from up north. :)
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Gräsand - Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard

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A moulting male to the right and one that seems to be a hybrid of Mallard and Merganser.

NF Photo 080602 at Djulö

A golden Mallard female, NF Photo 100317 at Oxelösund

Beautiful. Isn´t she??

2 males, the one to the left is really oddlooking. And not moulting.
 NF Photo 081127 at Djulö Kvarn

My favourite inflight  photo, NF Photo 090131

The tailfeather of the male Mallard. NF Photo 070529

The mallard is too common to really give that wow factor. You see them so much you don´t really look at them. But what do you say about this? Every now and then there comes someone different.

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