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Pretty sure it's not a baby robin, bigger than a mallard, head is dark grey.
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Posted : 24/05/2014 7:53 pm
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Its a duck.

You're welcome.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:54 pm
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Platypus


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:55 pm
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That's dinner in Peking. 😆


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:55 pm
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Mallard hybrid


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:56 pm
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Whatever it is, it's laughing at you.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:57 pm
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His name is Quentin. Quentin the duck.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 7:59 pm
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Probably a cross with a farm duck breed, it doesn't look like any native duck.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:01 pm
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Looks like a mallard / Aylesbury cross breed. Very tasty. 😉


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:03 pm
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Looks a bit scary anyway


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:06 pm
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That, is a zombie duck


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:07 pm
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Where is Sarah???


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:11 pm
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As above, a mongrel mallard/somethingelse hybrid. Mallard are randy buggers that'll pretty much rape any female duck regardless of species. There was one chasing a female out onto the Bath Road by the river in Chippenham one afternoon, and it really wouldn't take no for an answer, I was trying to drive it back onto the river to leave the female alone, and it was trying everything it could to get at her. She'd have run under a car trying to get away if I hadn't driven the male away. The female ended up hiding in some bushes to escape the male.
Persistent little sod.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:17 pm
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Yes, it's a mallard cross. We've tried to rescue female mallards before now, it's heart wrenching to see them being raped.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:26 pm
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Where is Sarah???

Here


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:27 pm
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Ivy, Nettles, cowslip... its weed paradise


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:29 pm
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And youve left buck all alone mightymule? For shame!!! 😀


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 8:40 pm
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Commuting home along the canal once I saw a dead female mallard floating in the canal. A couple of males were nearby, one of whom was still showing an interest in trying to mate with her. Presumably she had drowned during mating. A gruesome scene.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 9:40 pm
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Only on STW could a cuckoo take the moral high ground.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 9:45 pm
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It's a 650b Mallard.
Makes the duck pond come alive.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 10:19 pm
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I saw a dead female mallard floating in the canal............Presumably she had drowned during mating.

No, traditionally it's raped, murdered, thrown into the canal.


 
Posted : 24/05/2014 10:38 pm

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