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Territorial Dispute

Lets get ready to rumble!!!!! These two groups appear to be engaged in a territorial dispute. Each claims to have been there first. The turtles have the numbers but the ducks have the size. I left before feathers and scutes started flying.
Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa)
Red-eared Sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans)

Aix sponsa wood duck male wood duck white rock lake female wood duck dallas texas sunset bay aquatic bird aquatic water fowl dabbling duck eclipse plumage eclipse colors territorial dispute log driftwood Trachemys scripta elegans red eared slider water turtle turtle aquatic turtle reptile slider herp