Question to any of the other birders / bird people out there.
Has anyone else been noticing an uptick in male mallards actually staying around the female and family's during and post hatch??? I've seen it twice in like, one month where there was a male mallard actually sticking around with a female and the ducklings and I am just astounded.
They'd actually stay around the female and the ducklings, follow them where they went, alarm with the hen and everything. Like whats with this new trend in the local mallards at least in my county where drakes are actually sticking around???
Curious if anyone else has been seeing it and/or if they know anything on this in current birder's news / papers or anything.









