Forget the Blue Planet, look what I photographed in the depths of the duck pond at Arnot Hill Park on Sunday morning.
It appears to be a grey plastic supermarket trolley. If my memory serves me right these were used in Wilko’s. I’m going to have to go in next week and see if they still use them.
It was a bit chilly so I resisted the temptation to dive in and photograph it in its natural habitat.
There were also a few ducks and moorhens about.
Mallard
Moorhen
Red Crested Pochard
Mallard/Pintail cross drake
Mallard pin-tail cross – that’s a bit different! Quite dapper.
There are a few about when you look them up on the web. They do look good.
Nice photos, Quercus! The red crested pochard is a beautiful duck. I’ve never heard of that species.
They tend to congregate in central Asia and India, with a few in Europe.
We need to see more of the red crested pochard. Please.
I’ll see what I can come up with. 🙂
Until you identified the shopping cart, I could not figure out what it was. But as soon as you did, it snapped into focus. Funny how sometimes we can’t see. Nice pictures of the ducks and moorhen. I really like the labels you have with the pictures because except for the mallards, the others, as far as I know, are not found in Maine.
It took me a moment to identify the trolley –
possibly because it’s not the normal wire type. 😉
Excellent duck and moorhen photos. Poor drowned trolley!
Thank you. 🙂
More excellent photography – especially the giant sea-snail
🙂 Thank you Derrick.
I love the way ducks turn tail up. Such a group of them! The trolley is unfortunate, but kind of funny…
Yes, as trollies go it is a good one, but it would be better in the shop. 🙂
I like it.
It’s much more impressive than the average water-logged trolley. But it is Arnold…
True.