[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks

Spotted these two birds on the Don today ...... I'm not sure what they are? Any ideas?



Cheers
Mike

[Jim Eddie]

Not 100% sure Mike just a wild guess ......... Ducks 

 

Jim

[Barry Robertson]

Black/white with a zest of green Ducks maybe 

[Iain Goolager]

Almost Jim

They are infact Black bodied ring necked pink billed ducks.  
It also looks like they both went up against the newly painted green benches beside the bridge.

[Iain Goolager]

Baz,

thanks for spoiling my reply!

[Jim Eddie]

Mike

Seriously now   I saw the same ducks at Monymusk last year , not a British species , so I'm guessing domestic  escapee's.

Blue Swedish ? http://www.domesticducks.co.uk/breeds.html

 

Jim

[Mike Barrio]

"seriously now" .........      





They looked a fair bit bigger than Mallards

Cheers
Mike

[Barry Robertson]

Baz,

thanks for spoiling my reply!

Dry your eyes Iain 

[Irvine Ross]

They aren't any  breed of wild duck that I know so I agree they must be feral domestic ducks especially as they are big. They could easily be mongrels crossed with wild or another breed of domestic ducks.

 

Irvine

[Iain Goolager]

Can't find anything remotely similar on tinterweb ???



Thanks for the concern Baz but I'm fine

[Noel Kelly]

I would say they are domestic gone feral. In my home town in Ireland there is a flock of ducks and geese living in a riverside field in the middle of town for many years. They are all the colours of the rainbow(almost).
Thats my guess anyway. Lovely looking birds.

[Mike Barrio]

I give up

I've been round and round the net, on far too many bird websites and found nothing like them

I reckon we should go with Jim's name "Wild Guess Ducks" and Noel's description "Lovely looking birds"

Best wishes
Mike

[Rob Brownfield]

To me they look like a good source of feathers

[Sandy Nelson]

we also saw this little fellow, muscleing in on the wifie mallards.
You just cant trust these Honkys



Sandy

[Noel Kelly]

That one is easy, swan......

[Iain Goolager]

Noel,
Don't be silly - it's far too small for a swan, it's a goose

[Noel Kelly]

Ok a small swan then. 

[Sandy Nelson]

I thought it was Howard
 

[Iain Goolager]

Howard Swan?

[sightbob]

ok with the help of a few friends the first pair of birdies we think have been cross bred intentionally in captivity and escaped. Mallard x Muscovy or Mallard x Swedish perhaps or bits of both.
 

[Mike Barrio]

ok with the help of a few friends the first pair of birdies we think have been cross bred intentionally in captivity and escaped. Mallard x Muscovy or Mallard x Swedish perhaps or bits of both.
 

That's more or less the conclusion that I came to Brian

Cheers
Mike

[Jim Eddie]

John

This was the duck thread, looking at the photo's I'm not 100% these are the same as the Fedderate duck.

 

Jim

[Tiam]

hmmmmmn no im thinking pigeon 

Tiam

[Alex Burnett]

You are all wrong about the white bird:

I have seen these before & it is definately from an old strain called

"The lesser Orange-Billed Snowwhite Duck" a rather rare member of
the Disney Genus!!

 

Alex