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Tag: Mallard Duck

  • Like Water off a Ducks Back

    Like Water off a Ducks Back

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Female Mallard
    Female Mallard
  • Time for Mr Duck’s Morning Stretches

    Time for Mr Duck’s Morning Stretches

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Mallard duck
    Mallard duck
  • Female Mallard — Water Water Everywhere #106

    Female Mallard — Water Water Everywhere #106

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    Female Mallard

    How To Join In

    1. Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
    2. Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box or create a pingback by linking to my post.
    3. Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.

    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Shooglie Duck — Water Water Everywhere #105

    Shooglie Duck — Water Water Everywhere #105

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    This shot captures a male mallard, mid shake of his head, scattering water droplets everywhere.

    Shooglie duck

    How To Join In

    1. Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
    2. Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box or create a pingback by linking to my post.
    3. Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.

    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Inquisitive Duck — Fan Of… #125

    Inquisitive Duck — Fan Of… #125

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in this weekly challenge whenever you find yourself thinking “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    It’s my wife’s birthdaycoming up & I’m on hoilday for the next couple of weeks; Fan Of… will be back on the 20th September. Until then, stary safe & happy blogging

    This week’s Fan Of… is a nosy but friendly duck (we called her Matilda).

    Whilst up at Palacerigg Country Park to get some shots of Snappy’s modified camera bag, featured in last week’s Fan Of… #124, one of the female mallards at the pond decided to come over & see what was happening.

    Female mallard duck at Palacerigg Country Park
    Female Mallard Duck at Palacerigg Country Park
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  • Mother Duck and her Tiny Flotilla

    Mother Duck and her Tiny Flotilla

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Mallard & ducklings
    Mallard & ducklings
  • Hi, Is This my Good Side?

    Hi, Is This my Good Side?

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Pale brown mallard
    Pale brown mallard
  • A Busy Day at the Pond — Water Water Everywhere #60

    A Busy Day at the Pond — Water Water Everywhere #60

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    About three quarters of the pond at the Palacerigg Visitor Centre was frozen, giving the resident ducks a much smaller swimming area.

    Palacerigg Visitor Centre Pond
    Palacerigg Visitor Centre Pond
    Mallard ducks
    Mallard & Muscovy Ducks
    Mallard & Muscovy Ducks

    How To Join In

    1. Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
    2. Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box or create a pingback by linking to my post.
    3. Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.

    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Learning a New Skill — Lens Artists Challenge #125

    Learning a New Skill — Lens Artists Challenge #125

    Hi All 👋 My entry for this weeks challenge, set by Tina: You Pick It.

    This was inspired by Lisa Coleman’s latest Bird Weekly — Photo Challenge: Birds in Colour & Mono. In the second picture of her post, there is a slider bar which can be dragged back & forth to change the colour & grey scale aspects of the picture. I was very taken with this but, had no idea how it was done. I decided, for my entry, to use columns to put the colour & the black & white images side by side, but wordpress went into a huff & wouldn’t play alongI ended up doing the images in a stacked format as that was all that was working. Below is an example.

    Bushboy to the rescue. Brian, in the comments suggested that I edited the post using the compare function in the block editor.

    So here is the newly edited post, using a newly learnt skill, inspired by Lisa & pointed in the right direction by BrianWordpress is a wonderful place

    Muscovy Duck in Palacerigg Country Park

    Drake Mallard Duck in Palacerigg Country Park

    Magpie in Bellahouston Park

    Ravens in Cumbernauld House Park