Atchafalaya... Sir, you are located mid-stream in all this migration, I'm just over here in the shallows.

Your photos are much better than mine, in fact I only took one.

There's fair numbers of resident mallards around here, of course in ducks males outnumber females, so there's groups of hard up mallard drakes trying to do their duck rape thing on any mallard females not hidden somewhere with eggs and/or young. They look stressed.

This one guy avoided that whole rough dating scene by taking up with a plus-sized girl smile

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