Doc Duck
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Thursday I took a walk in the Oslo (Norway) city forest. Thought I'd practice using my Coolpix camera, as I won't be able to carry the D90 for some weeks after surgery next month. Wasn't doing too well with the Coolpix (no manual focus, so hard to pick out birds in trees) until I got to Sognsvann (Sogn lake). Got a nice shot of a female mallard, since they don't spook easily. Also managed to capture this much smaller diving duck, after following it along the lake shore until I worked out about how far it would go on each dive before bobbing up again. When it was in the shallows near the bathing beach I could even track its movements by the surface disturbances. Since it was only on the surface for a few seconds between dives, it was constantly wet and therefore constantly appeared a fairly even, dark brown. Two shots do show some areas of lighter plumage. I'm guessing this is a Eurasion Wigeon, or could it be a female or juvie Ruddy Duck? With the plumage patterns so unclear I thought I'd better check.
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