Doesn't that tickle?

Think back to your first experience of birds and I bet that it was when you fed the ducks at the local pond as a nipper. I can almost guarantee that amongst those ducks was the Mallard, a duck that if it were more scarce would have birders salivating at the sight of it, especially the male.

Frozen fowl

Gadwall

Gadwall

Mallard

Mallard

These wildfowl were sat on a small pool called Gordon`s Mere at Woodwalton Fen near Peterborough. The pool had almost frozen over completely, but there was a small patch of clear water where the ducks congregated. The light was lovely and the reflections good, which lent themselves to these shots.