The Story of Ailsa the Aylesbury Duck

Meet Ailsa the Aylesbury Duck and the family album

The other day I introduced you to some domestic ducks gone wild down on the canal. This photo journal is of one Aylesbury duck I call Ailsa distinguishable by her deformed beak. Here she is to tell her own story.

Pictures of Domestic Ducks: Aylesbury, Blue Swedish and Rouen Ducks

Bird Pictures: Unusual Ducks along Bingley Canal: Young Aylesbury Ducks, Blue Swedish Duck, Rouen Duck

These are domestic birds that have either escapeed or been released from poultry keepers. Now they live wild along my stretch of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal.

Aylesbury Ducks, Blue Swedish Duck, Rouen Duck

Birding and bird photography is not an exact science: none of the birds have read the expert's books so surprises and mysteries are not uncommon. This photo journal documents, with original duck pictures, just one such mystery. Who's yer mama? Who's yer papa?