Wood Duck chicks mommy stare
Apr 26, 2024 07:58:18 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Wood Duck chicks mommy stare
Sony a1, Sony 200-600 @ 600 f6.3, 1/3200 sec. iso 500, manual exposure based on green leaf reading which reflects just about the same amount of light as a gray card, so it's like taking a gray card with you as long as the sun is striking the leaves the same as it striking the subjects.
Sony a1, Sony 200-600 @ 600 f6.3, 1/3200 sec. iso 500, manual exposure based on green leaf reading which reflects just about the same amount of light as a gray card, so it's like taking a gray card with you as long as the sun is striking the leaves the same as it striking the subjects.
Apr 26, 2024 10:59:48 #
Apr 26, 2024 13:30:46 #
Very nice Bill.
I think the chick is saying: "Hey Mom, look at that guy with the very big lens!"
Hope to see more of the Wood Duck family. Thanks for posting.
Joe McL
I think the chick is saying: "Hey Mom, look at that guy with the very big lens!"
Hope to see more of the Wood Duck family. Thanks for posting.
Joe McL
Apr 26, 2024 13:45:05 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
joemcl1 wrote:
Very nice Bill.
I think the chick is saying: "Hey Mom, look at that guy with the very big lens!"
Hope to see more of the Wood Duck family. Thanks for posting.
Joe McL
I think the chick is saying: "Hey Mom, look at that guy with the very big lens!"
Hope to see more of the Wood Duck family. Thanks for posting.
Joe McL
Thanks for the shout out.
Unfortunately we are heading back to Pennsylvania on April 30th and must say goodbye to out Florida home for 6 months.
We have been very fortunate to have a pair of Wood Duck at Green Cay this year. No chicks yet but lots of opportunities to get close ups of these reclusive ducks.
This post is of a female Wood Duck and the only surviving chick from 8 to survive at Peaceful Waters in Wellington Florida.
We are hopping this little guy grows up and reproduces close by.
Apr 26, 2024 14:28:32 #
Apr 26, 2024 15:40:52 #
billnikon wrote:
Thanks for the shout out. br Unfortunately we are... (show quote)
I wish that "Peaceful Waters" had been more peaceful for the Wood Duck family and hope the chick makes it to next year and that you get a chance to photograph her.
Thanks for the many beautiful posts of the birds of the SE Fla wetlands as well as the commentary regarding the photos. It has been a treat to turn on my computer in the morning and enjoy the beauty and humor of your latest posts.
Have a safe trip back north.
Apr 26, 2024 18:18:30 #
billnikon wrote:
Wood Duck chicks mommy stare
Sony a1, Sony 200-600 @ 600 f6.3, 1/3200 sec. iso 500, manual exposure based on green leaf reading which reflects just about the same amount of light as a gray card, so it's like taking a gray card with you as long as the sun is striking the leaves the same as it striking the subjects.
Sony a1, Sony 200-600 @ 600 f6.3, 1/3200 sec. iso 500, manual exposure based on green leaf reading which reflects just about the same amount of light as a gray card, so it's like taking a gray card with you as long as the sun is striking the leaves the same as it striking the subjects.
Nice shot, but only one duckling?
Apr 27, 2024 06:35:49 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
robertjerl wrote:
Nice shot, but only one duckling?
Only one that survived out of 8 original.
Apr 27, 2024 10:06:32 #
Apr 27, 2024 20:35:09 #
billnikon wrote:
Only one that survived out of 8 original.
That would explain that "look".
The park were I go to photograph water birds is a nearly one mile long man-made river with waterfalls, rapids, ponds, paths and bridges that was built in a large concrete flood control channel. The over population of turtles got so bad it seemed the banks were lined with them and duckings, goslings and shorebird babies seldom lived to grow up. They thinned out the turtles, so now you only see a very few scattered here and there. On my last trip, I rode my mobility scooter the whole length of the park and didn't see any turtles.
Apr 28, 2024 06:42:24 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
robertjerl wrote:
That would explain that "look". br br T... (show quote)
The locals must have gotten a taste for turtle soup.
Apr 28, 2024 19:56:01 #
billnikon wrote:
The locals must have gotten a taste for turtle soup.
The bigger ponds had large Koi also and a few years ago the people in the business park and homes along the nearly 1 mile of the River Walk were always calling the cops because homeless and migrants from areas of Latin America were they eat wild meat were catching the turtles and Koi and roasting them over fires in the park at night.
Apr 29, 2024 22:33:49 #
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