Sometimes a pond can be a watery Payton Place
Shown here is a male kissing a female while
Their mates glower at the awkwardness this creates.
(This was a strange little vignette - there was what appeared to be two perfectly content pairs of teal, but the male just sauntered away from his mate (on the far right) and started kissing the female from the other pair.)
Location: Black Point Wildlife Drive, MINWR
Sources: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue-winged_Teal/overview
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