... with one eye open.

By Chamaeleo

Garden: Partial Eclipse

More and less showy in large

The duckules are still all mid-moult... Koi is (unusually) looking least ragged, and is starting to show her gold and silver colouration again, and Flügel has pretty much shed his breeding plumage into 'eclipse plumage', leaving him without his pewter-y head, white collar, defined bib, and curly tail feathers... His facial patterning emerges showing that he still has the characteristic facial markings of a mallard beneath his spring-time get-up.

Others here (or right from Snoozy shapes)
p.s. Flügel's colouration is called 'Apricot', while Koi is 'Blue Fawn'; both of them are forms of the pastel colouration of call ducks... Kappa's wild-type mallard markings are referred to as 'Grey', while Ida is just 'White'.

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