I so rarely get to see Ruddy Ducks and when I do, they are too far away for photos. As it is, this image is heavily cropped, but it is still the closest image I've taken so far. Just love the beautiful blue bill! Wish its tail had been sticking up, though, in a typical pose. I sometimes have a good chuckle when I think back maybe seven years or so, when I thought that a duck was a duck (i.e. a Mallard). I had no idea that there were SO many different species!