Who's the odd one out?

When I looked at Mrs Mallard with her ducklings at Priory this afternoon, I wondered whether ginger duck had a different father. She was keeping them all close to her - 6 surviving at the moment.

I have now discovered why I have to keep changing the date on my pics each day which keep reading April 2011. This camera wasn't even out then but for some reason the date has gone mad and this is the date that my camera says so I have now changed it to the correct date. Weird or what?

Alternative pic of a duck with 11 ducklings can be found on 25 April Bits & Bobs album

[🐞Lucy Dolittle]

The lighter one looks a it bigger. Wonder if he is a foster duckling?. Great shot

[Graham Thresher]

A great shot. The most ducklings I have seen in one family this year was eleven. Fav

[Rosie Kind]

@lucypics I hadn't thought of that Lucy

[Rosie Kind]

@thresheg Thanks Graham for your Fav. I posted a pic on 25 April of a duck with 11 ducklings on the same lake

[Lux Vivens]

Aaaaaaaaaaw, they are so cute! :) Great shot!

[Judith Johnson]

Lovely to see the ducklings in Spring. I like the little ginger one, so cute.

[carol white]

Lovely capture,Rosie!! Think mum must have acquired an extra little one along the way

[Beryl Lloyd]

Lovely capture Rosie, '--perhaps the ginger one has been too long on the sun-bed !!

[Al Perry]

Whos your daddy. lol Nice eye catching that.

[Denis]

A lovely capture Rosie.....

[Karin Hirsch]

Wonderful shot. Great title

[Shirley Banford]

Sweet!

[❀ Lynn]

It will be interesting to see the colours of the feathers as the light duckling matures....it is obviously the same kind...same markings, just lighter...wonder if it is a 'leucistic' type...not albino but with some feathers not having the colour?