Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Ducktopia, any Duck on land. Here's a mallard drake, in a shot taken in late June, seeming to contemplate the choices that led him to this moment. 📷
alt text
A mallard drake in full, green-headed breeding plumage stands on a spit of soil between two pond sections, which form the foreground and background. The bird is surrounded by thin grass and a few flowering plants, and is shown in right profile with wings folded.