The lonely Pintail
For the first time this winter, to be exact since October 2012, there was a female Pintail sitting down town Lucerne with all the Mallards, Mute Swans, Black-headed Gulls, Coots etc. Down town is where the lake ends and the river starts and I pass every day when I go to work.
The female Pintail looks very similar to the female Mallard. But she is a bit smaller, has a slimmer beak and a hint of a pin tail. She was there almost every day, lately trying to flirt with one of the male Mallards – but it didn’t work out.
Last Friday was a beautiful sunny spring day and therefor I decided to bring my camera to take a photo of her. I have no nice photo of a female Pintail yet. She wasn’t there! Probably decided to spend that beautiful day somewhere else…
So here are some photos of the other ones hanging around.
Dreamfalcon 
Too bad no pintail … but you certainly saw some other beauties. Terrific photographs!
I did get a (very bad) photo on Tuesday of the Pintail – you’ll get to see it soon 🙂
Beautiful sunny pictures and nice for the female pintail
Thank you Chris! It hasn’t been sunny since – just snowing and very cold (unusual for end of March)…