Mother and babies. Domestic ducks have a bad reputation for motherhood but some of mine seem pretty good at it. Perhaps it is because they live in very natural conditions.

Freda and some specklies pausing in a slug hunt.

Zoshka [call duck] sitting on nest in back garden.

 

Two call drakes [Zoshka's children 1987].

 

 

 

 

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