This family of very young mallard went for a paddle on May 22, 2020. (Sadly, I have not seen any of them since. That is not to imply anything bad has happened to them, just that mom has taken them to some other part of the lake to grow up.) 

Keeping track of this playful bunch must be a challenge - notice that two of them are much smaller than the other nine - one or more of them is always ducking (pun intended!) under the surface. 

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(The entire sequence of 37 photographs - only some of which are shown here - occupied less than two minutes in actual time.)