mallard

Trying to impress the ladies - Mallard after the fight. I am away on a photography mission until Monday night, with no Wifi, so have a good weekend one and all. Till then au revoir.

Keep practising the flight shots.. got the lighting all wrong on this one though, so it had to be lightened in post processing. I still need to work on panning with them... the next image, he was nearly out the picture LOL. Oh and BTW I was asked why Brent Geese were my favourite: not just...

taken again in the local park

Today's theme is distance and disappointment. Yes, I like to take a birding break on Vest-Amager any time I have a layover between flights through Copenhagen, but it's also frustrating. I don't digiscope. I don't even own a scope. The ponds along the shore where there are masses of birds are...

I spent a short time at Kinnordy, without many pictures to show for it. All the ducks were moulting and therefore mostly in hiding! The bog bean and reeds were high, so anything in those areas were well hidden!! I've had better days there LOL. There was a grey/white blob on top of a distant...

Taken at the Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area (Lake Boris) at about 10m. Apparently this is a first for me: for a moment I thought I had misidentified the male (thought it was something other than a mallard), but realized this is the mallard male in eclipse plumage. Never photographed...

They looked very relaxed when I took this photo.

He sure did. This was a heavily wooded area and there I'm standing with what may resemble a canon. Pardon the pun.

I think this is an eclipse plumaged male, judging by the colour of the bill. I don't usually manage to sort them out from females!! Shutter Priority settings f/5.6 1/800 sec ISO 200 Exp bias 0 Focal length 167 mm Max aperture 3 (but I don't know what that means)

After practising a few shots at home using Shutter Priority, I took myself off to Kinnordy. These three Mallards swam past the hide and I think even Ove might be quite pleased with the wake and what the camera did with it LOL. I'd no idea that would happen! f5 1/1600 sec ISO 800 Exp bias 0

Well Peeps, Its an early start from me this morning, I'm off out with BF's Toby H...I hope y'all have a great weekend.

mr and mrs mallard today.these ducks do have attitude i love watching their antics.

mr and mrs mallard today.these ducks do have attitude i love watching their antics.

The morning light was on this drake as it was preening.

Another photograph of a sleeping duck.

an actual pic with autumnal touch hope you like it