Mandarin ducks are a symbol for long love in a partnership in various East-asian cultures.
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Mandarin ducks are a symbol for long love in a partnership in various East-asian cultures.
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Beautiful photo
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Thank you. These are beautiful birds.
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A good looking duck. I wonder if they taste like mandarines?
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You prepared to try?
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You catch and cook and I’ll eat and let you know
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I might catch or even cook but no way I’m going to kill one.
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I’m just in the cook only camp. I’ll catch if it is in need of rescue but that’s about all.
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Beautiful!
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They are.
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Never knew that saying about Mandarin dusk… First image in this post is of such a duck strutting in a sho w off way: https://suejudd.com/2018/11/04/lens-artists-photo-challenge-18-blending-in-or-standing-out/
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The one you photographed is really strutting. 😃 The info about them being a symbol for long lasting love came unbidden with wikipedia.
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I loved that little strutting duck!
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He’s gorgeous and he knows it.
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He most certainly did! 😀
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