Lone Mallard Duck-

[Miss Lydia]

If she is a domestic other than keeping up with what your doing on taking her home once you know for sure.
Hopefully a handsome drake will fly over and see her .
If she were captive bred she may not have anything showing that. In other words you might never know. Wonder why her family would fly off though and her not go with them?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/difference-between-wild-and-domestic-mallards.356578/ post #5

 

[Brooke_R]

I'm going to visit her this afternoon. I have been bringing some duckling feed as snacks when I see her. I'll take a closer look at her web and if there is a back toe. Thanks for the suggestion! If she is domestic, what should the recourse be? The same?

I was curious about this so I looked at my mallards’ feet but didn’t notice a toe missing. I had to look really closely another day to see that only part of one was gone. So make sure you get a really good look lol

 

[swampfox440]

How cute she is ! Mine are toe clipped . My mallards are in the process of molting now and mallards go through this period when they can't fly far without primary wing feathers . Every year the males loose the beautiful color and become brown like the females . She won't be able to fly until she gets her primaries grown in this fall .

 

[Miss Lydia]

How cute she is ! Mine are toe clipped . My mallards are in the process of molting now and mallards go through this period when they can't fly far without primary wing feathers . Every year the males loose the beautiful color and become brown like the females . She won't be able to fly until she gets her primaries grown in this fall .

Is it pretty normal for a female to be a lone duck this time of year?

 

[Mrs. K]

I would advise leaving her where she is. One day she will just be gone, but will could come back in the spring, but I would not recommend capturing her and taking her home if that is what you are thinking. And I would not feed her either. Wild animals have the food thing figured out, and when humans interfere with that, they often cause more problems than they solve.