We have widgeons in our area all year, although there seem to be more over winter than in the summer. These ducks don't quack, instead they have a distintive wheeze. The male has a prominent white patch on its forehead, the female's have a pattern fairly typical of female ducks. Here is a picture of a female widgeon.
Photography notes:
This image is mostly unprocessed, it has only been cropped and resized. There is a considerable amount of feather detail in the background pictures that can't be seen in the small picture at the top of this page. A small section of the original below shows the detail of the bird's eye.
