While hiking the Molly’s Knob trail in Hungry Mother State Park, I came across a group of 7-10 mallards swimming in the water. One male kept dunking on the other trying to show off to the mostly females nearby.
A Mallard Duck flexing its wings near another male while the female pretends not to notice.
A mallard duck just before breaching the water. Another sits in the splash zone.
A view of a female Mallard just before touching into the lake seen through the keyhole of fall colors.
Quick! Someone feed the lake before she eats the ducks! Mother hungers.
Ha, that must be what kept upsetting them!