The mallards are the reason why we don't pick very many blueberries in the backyard at the end of the summer. But that's okay: we decided the blueberries are for them - as long as they leave the currants and the gooseberries in the garden alone 🙂

Random captures from our lakeside camera in which the duckies had the courtesy to stay in frame so we can enjoy watching them up close.

Spotted around 3am while the sun was rising over our misty lake.

The mallards are done gorging on blackberries in the backyard and going back onto the lake.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49065678

Great Lakes region, USA. July 4th 2026.

Look at these adorable mallards! They were such cooperative subjects too. My heart is melting.

Lady mallard getting ready for the night.

Group of mallards half a mile away, spotted by our lakeside camera

We have a group of lady mallards currently summering on our lake that likes to rest on our beach at the end of the day, then goes hide in the bushes in the forest to nest during the night. I knew roughly what time they like to come in the afternoon, so I waited for them and captured their rest stop with our lake camera.

This little guy was all alone on the lake some 600 yards away. The water was still enough that our lake camera could track it fairly easily.

Sorry as this is likely the wrong duck community (i mean the focus of cute instead general) but its by far the largest: what does the white coloring mean? We get more ducks as years pass that look like they got too close to wall painters

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Edit: I am a silly goose, forgot to say this is at Kanaal Schoten, Belgium