Urban Nature : Mount Auburn Cemetery Duck Frolic.
Channel: Chris Rich
Date: 2013-05-17

One of the wonders of attending to the doings of the living world is the element of surprise and chance.

Spring being what it is has the male mallards in a fine fettle as this hapless blue winged teal discovers, gender undetermined. 

Mallard drakes seem to have an 'any port in a storm' approach and have been making hybrids with teal lately.

This is evidence of the unseemly practice, 

Parental Discretion advised. Fortunately, an eastern cottontail attended by a chipmunk bring the story arc back to the more wholesome pursuit of eating.

A view of the firmament closes it out.