Mallards

Female mallard

Some of the ducks which have taken up residence in West Park, coping when the lakes were almost frozen.

Mallard

Mallard

Mallard

Female mallard

Heron and distorted reflection

Heron

A flotilla of ducks had just swum by, hoping I was going to feed them.

That disturbed the surface of the previously dead calm canal just the right amount to give fairground mirror type reflections of the heron fishing on the opposite bank.