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    Default Shoveller ducks at Moor Green Lakes Reserve

    Shovellers galore, once they'd woken up.
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    Great shots Rolf. Lovely ducks, I think, even if a little prehistoric looking

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    And I wonder who woke them up

    Beautiful images rolf have all shovellers got a beak like these and if so I can see why they got there name

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    LOL, I had Beryl out there poking them with sticks.

    Yes, they are amazing beaks, found the picture of the underside quite interesting.
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    Beryl with a stick................well that's very scary

    Yes you wouldn't think it would have a pattern like it does, I assume they use their beaks for digging in the mud?

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    Yes, and the beak filters it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rolf View Post
    Yes, and the beak filters it.
    Very clever

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    Just one more thing rolf are all the ducks in the above pics called shovellers or are there different kinds of shovellers because there are quite a few different coloured ones

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    All Shoveller Ducks Babs, but the light was extremely variable, due to the amount of passing cloud.
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    Who is passing cloud ?

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    Crumbs, that takes me back to the early seventies, when it was really cool to smoke Passing Cloud cigarettes.
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    some very good pics rolf. i like the two pics of the drake impersonating john cleeses' ministry of silly walks

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    LOL, thanks Andy, got a series of several photos on fast fire, was contemplating an animation.
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    That would be a very good idea Rolf.

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    The smell from those passing cloud cigarettes you refer to Rolf, should have been renamed Passing Farmyards
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