Aggressive behaviour by mallards

Visited the canal-side pond in lower Campbell Park, Milton Keynes yesterday
pm hoping to photograph the new season's ducklings etc. Mainly mallard and
a few coots on the pond, but the mallards seemed much more aggressive than
I've noted before. Drakes fought each other frequently, as did some
females, and I have a 16 frame 5fps sequence capturing how one female tried
hard, but unsuccessfully, to drown a very small duckling. (There were a few
larger ducklings around as well.) Whether it was her duckling, I don't know.

Just wondering whether the supply of food from passers by is no longer
enough for the increased duck population?
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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK



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