Duck Ducks

Today-- at 12:47p.m. our friend 

the naturalist and wild-life photographer

 MURRAY HEAD wrote:  

 Marie, Beaking News!

The place: Central Park - The Lake

The date - 2/15/13

The Northern Shoveler

     felt the need to duck as the Gull (non-Iceland) swooped in for a landing

and there were some odd ducks on the Lake

 Including a very beautiful dark-brown mallard who looked even more beautiful after a vigorous preening