Gilbert Run Park is a pretty little park near Charlotte Hall, MD with a fair amount of amenities like a snack bar, a lake, fishing, boat rentals in the season, picnic tables, recreation for kids, birds, and trails. I like the bridge connecting the boats to a picnic area. There are sometimes birds nearby. On this particular day, I saw a family of little ducks swimming closely together for safety, followed by the unusual black duck (muscovy?) and a young boy slowly following these ducks and geese in the lake.
Such cute little ducklings, possibly mallards
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I think this is a black muscovy, but I'm not entirely sure. It was unusual. I think they sometimes have a white patch of feathers, but I didn't see that. The red warts on the face are more extensive on males, so this is probably male.
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