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| wow! this looks like a good place . . . |
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| . . . no wait . . . what the . . . |
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| . . . five females together?! . . . |
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| . . . I’m outta here . . . |
I think these are common goldeneye (females). We scoured our bird books and decided that they fit the description, plus they will nest in trees (please, someone correct me if they are not). The first photo was taken just a week ago but the other four were last year at about this same time. Anyway, what is remarkable is that on that day, five of these birds landed on this tree snag and I was able to photograph them! I was holding my camera by hand, zoomed in at 200mm and through glass (shaky, shaky, shaky)! Just one of those things, there was no time to grab my tripod (I was not prepared), and a blurry photo is better than no photo when it comes to capturing what is going on around you in nature!
(I submitted these to a contest that our county was holding and they featured my photos in their newsletter).
Now I’m linking up to World Bird Wednesday at the Pine River Review
Tripod or not … these are great shots! And your commentary is quite funny!
If you hadn’t said ;blurry’ I never would have thought there was anything wrong with thos pix! I love every one of them. Glad you linked right after I did on WBW — it’s nice to find your lovely blog.
Barb, these photos are great!
Great captures; especially the big group at the top of the tree.
Those are some freaky-looking eyes. Great captures — I am often unprepared for these kinds of shots as well. Must get better… :)
Great capture of an incredible sight. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
oh that’s cute! popular roost!
Quite amazing! How wonderful to have your photos published in your county magazine too!
Now this is a new sight for me.
Ducks sitting on a tree…cool!!!
A great post (sorry not the tree)lovely images and humour.
Great photos – I’m glad you took them even without a tripod.
Sort of reminds me of the age old conundrum: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? So far the question has gone unanswered. Perhaps the ducks are weighting in? Great shots!
THAT is such a fun series IT brings to mind for me, how many people can fit in a VW BEETLE? Maybe a record for Guiness Book of World Records!
That’s funny — how many did they think they could fit up there! Cool shots!
What an amazing image – all those ducks on top of that broken tree1 Actually, when you look closely, it looks like a great place for a nest.