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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pretzel" data-source="post: 268508" data-attributes="member: 12257">Day 52 - BONUS!!!  (or PART 2!) - D U C K!!!FINALLY settled down enough at work that I was able to take one of my craved lunchtime photo jaunts.  I *KNEW* there would be different types of ducks at one of the larger park ponds I like to visit, but thought they might all be gone by the time I got to make my return...  quite a few were still around, though.  Lucky me!!1st, of course, to keep the locals happy, I took a shot of the ever hungry and fearless drake mallard, and the even MORE fearless resident goose (who didn't care at all that I was there to shoot ducks instead).[ATTACH]74032[/ATTACH][ATTACH]74034[/ATTACH]The rest of these shots were a little tougher, as the "out-of-towners" are a bit more skittish around strangers.  Heavily cropped to draw them in.First, the ducks that stayed the farthest away from me, the tiny, short billed Pied-bills.[ATTACH]74027[/ATTACH]Then, because I'd never seen these guys before, and I fell in love with their coloring (especially the bills), several pics of the Ring-necks.[ATTACH]74028[/ATTACH][ATTACH]74029[/ATTACH][ATTACH]74030[/ATTACH]And finally, often confused with mallard because of the similar coloring, the Northern Shovelers.[ATTACH]74031[/ATTACH]I rather thought that this black headed shoveler might actually be a different variety, but per the internet, it appears he is just a more rarely seen version of the Northern.  He was hanging out all by himself, and sure didn't want to give me a good angle.[ATTACH]74033[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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