The seeker

Had a long walk today all the way to and through the golf course. There was a brook running through it, and a lot of mallards in the rapids beside the bridge passing over the brook.

This fellow was one of the more persistent seekers of food at the bottom, diving his head below every now and then. This is taken just after he had come up once again. The drops are still on his plumage, like drops on a just-waxed car, shedding away immediately. Really water-resistant, and beautiful plumage.