Hello!
My wife spotted this duck family a few days ago near our neighborhood, and I just went to check them out. They have me stumped. The drake is a mallard, I would guess an escaped domestic, as it is larger than most of the wild ones I have seen. The hen seems to be a hybrid of some sort, mostly slate gray with a brown patch on one half of the breast. The ducklings take after their mother. Any ideas on what variety of hybrid these are?
Thank you!
My wife spotted this duck family a few days ago near our neighborhood, and I just went to check them out. They have me stumped. The drake is a mallard, I would guess an escaped domestic, as it is larger than most of the wild ones I have seen. The hen seems to be a hybrid of some sort, mostly slate gray with a brown patch on one half of the breast. The ducklings take after their mother. Any ideas on what variety of hybrid these are?
Thank you!
