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| Mallard at Lloyd Lake, Golden Gate Park |
When I first saw the mallard above, it was doing the head-dip dance with a mallard drake with normal coloration. The normal drake followed this one around like a typical suitor, and I could only wonder whether the pale-colored mallard is female or if this is some kind of adolescent practice of the adult mating ritual.
I wasn't sure at first that the pale duck was a mallard, so I imported it into my phone's Merlin app when I got home. Bird IDs usually pop right up, but this time the app spun for quite a while before it did finally settle on mallard.
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| Mallard Chums |
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| I've started seeing more great blue herons around the park again as mating season approaches. This one was resting at South Lake, but there were also a couple in the nesting trees at Blue Heron Lake. Incidentally, I also saw a pale-colored mallard at Blue Heron Lake. Was it the same one from Lloyd Lake, or a second duck? |
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Ghost Moon
(Shot of moon rising over Twin Peaks on Friday. I assume the double image is from shooting through a double-paned window, but the exposure difference between the two moons is an interesting bit of physics.) |
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| A rain shower passed over us this morning, and then the sun came out and delivered a rainbow. |
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