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Mallards

Nature · 2026 · 18 photographs

Low September light, long lens.

  1. A mallard hen dabbles at the water's edge, her reflection gold in the low sun.
  2. The hen dips her bill into the shallows, her feathers lit warm.
  3. Silhouette of a mallard rising on the water, wings spread wide.
  4. Two mallard hens swim through rippled blue water, one looking straight at the camera.
  5. A mallard hen floats on blue ripples, a flash of blue wing feathers showing.
  6. A mallard in silhouette walks along the shore, the water behind it glittering.
  7. Close portrait of a mallard hen in profile, another duck blurred behind her and yellow leaves in front.
  8. A mallard hen looks ahead past a blurred yellow leaf, a second duck soft behind her.
  9. A mallard hen walks toward the camera across sunlit sand.
  10. A mallard hen in profile on the bank, another duck out of focus behind her.
  11. Profile of a mallard hen with a wisp of white down caught on the tip of her bill.
  12. The hen faces the camera, wisps of down stuck to her bill.
  13. A tight profile of the hen's head, the down still on her bill, against soft brown light.
  14. A mallard hen rests on rippled water, small in the frame.
  15. A young mallard swims across blue water, its reflection copper beneath it.
  16. The young mallard glides on, rust and cream feathers glowing.
  17. A mallard swims away from the ripples spreading around it.
  18. A mallard floats on blue water above its brown and cream reflection.