Apart from shooting images of the pied wagtail (previous post), I also made a number of photographs of a young family of mandarin ducks. There were, at the time, four ducklings, but on my return today there were just two remaining. I can only assume that two have become the victims of natural predators, so much of my attention was directed at recording this small family. Curiously, the drake has not been in evidence to offer any sort of protection; this is the case for both mandarin families on Eyeworth pond, and is possibly a charactistic of the species.
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