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Ducks, East Anglia, UK (1 Viewer)

ialarmedalien

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I identified these ducks before, but now I can't for the life of me find them in my bird books!

Apologies for the poor photos -- the ducks were in the background whilst shooting a different bird.
 

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The first one is a common colour morph found in domestic Mallards, the second looks to me just like a "normal"/wild-type male Mallard going into eclipse (though you can't rule out some domestic ancestry in any Mallards in the UK, really).
 
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