A Brief City Duck's Tale

Though my ongoing recovery from last month's running injury has kept me from even "jogging," I did set out on a circuitous bicycle route from my home to our city's downtown, briefly stopping along the Genesee River. While out-and-about I snapped a few fowl pictures presented below... with narrative editorializing, too!

I stopped briefly on the patio adjacent to the Rochester Convention Center and looking down saw a sole duck all by her lonesome on a long shale island. Can you see her, too?
Here's the same pic as above, only with the duck enlarged. She was "hiding" in the center of the photo. The young camouflaged duck skittishly walked around the edge of the shale before gently gliding into the current.
Uh-oh! While she earnestly attempted to swim against the current, it only caused her in the frustrating pattern of swimming in a wide circle. Eventually, she gave into the current and allowed it to carry her...
Through the aqueduct and out of my view, presumably to points unknown (or the other side of the bridge and onto another part of the river)--this time clear of any shale island resting spots.