Before I saw these two I had never considered a mallard would mate with anything other than another mallard but a couple of weeks ago we noticed that the merganser shows up with the male mallard nearly every time. The merganser never eats the food we toss into the lake, just hangs back a good distance while the mallard stuffs himself. Can't see it so well in these photos, but, the merganser is photographed here on zoom. Learn something new every day out here!
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