“So here is a better picture of a duck, an Eider drake I took earlier this year, on the Ythan estuary.”

“The family pets were dogs, cats, and a Muscovy drake duck named Lucy which lived for nine years.”

“Some of the sailors played mumblety-peg with their knives or played duck and drake with small ice-cold stones they could find beneath the snow.”

“So here is a better picture of a duck, an Eider drake I took earlier this year, on the Ythan estuary.”

“The family pets were dogs, cats, and a Muscovy drake duck named Lucy which lived for nine years.”

“Some of the sailors played mumblety-peg with their knives or played duck and drake with small ice-cold stones they could find beneath the snow.”

“On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.”

“I suppose drakes of many species like to get away from the family on Father's Day.”

“The other day while walking along the footpath opposite the park I noticed seven or eight drakes surrounding a female duck and her ten ducklings.”