Been seeing a bunch of these this year, which is nice because I consider them the 3rd prettiest ducks. I’ll have to keep trying for closer and better photos in better lighting to really show off their colors.
This group started pretty far away, but with some patience they did start to come in closer until I lost enough light to make photography worthwhile… There were five males and two females and I sat and watched them feeding for about 45-60 minutes.