Mallards

Had the pleasure of coming across these mallards recently.  Here's a drake.  I like his shiny, iridescent head and yellow bill.  He was swimming in a creek.  I love how his black tail feathers curl so perfectly in the back.

Here's a hen.  She was enjoying a temporary pond, filled with a superfluity of rain water.  I like the patch of blue on her wing, and the orange of her bill and feet.

After looking at my photos of this hen, I wondered if her bill was just muddy, or if it was naturally colored this way.  After some research, I learned that all such hens have a two-toned bill.