Wood Ducks on the river

[Lame-Duck]

On the San Joaquin and Kings Rivers of the central San Joaquin Valley, we have a nice resident population of Woodies.....some are starting new families (no shots of babies, yet). Here's a few recent pictures of some of the ones in my area.





http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Lame-Duck/Wildlife%20Stuff/07-6729_Wood_Duck_drake_Canon.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Lame-Duck/Wildlife%20Stuff/07-7144_Wood_Duck_Drake_swimming_Ca.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Lame-Duck/Wildlife%20Stuff/07-6738_Wood_Ducks_pr_Canon.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Lame-Duck/Wildlife%20Stuff/07-7216_Wood_Duck_pr_swimming_Canon.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Lame-Duck/Wildlife%20Stuff/07-7415_Wood_Duck_flying_over_water.jpg

[Blackburnian]

Realy Nice series Mike!

Love Wooducks and they're colors. Love that flight shot!

Marc

[rocklyons]

Great shots of beautiful birds.

[jorj7]

Nice series Mike. Great detail on all of them. I really like the flight shot.

[Ilah]

Great shots of really striking birds, I really like the last one of the male in flight.

[morehtml]

You did a GREAT job here!

[sam walker]

all good Mike I liked the wing shot too. Little guys should pop out in May. Fun to watch them turn into big wood ducks through the Summer.
Sam

[pttenn]

Yeah--those are NICE.
Karen

[hTr]

Stunning Mike and the in-flight defies a superlative

[Reyno]

Beautiful series of finely captured images Mike.

[westernminnguy]

Very nice. Fun shots to see.

Did you shoot in raw and convert?

[Stephen Stephen]

Great series Mike. As Marc said: "Love the flight shot!"

[rw2]

I love that last shot.

[Lame-Duck]

Guys and Gals.....Thank you so much for the nice remarks. They alone, are a tremendous reward for the effort put in.......Mike

[village idiot]

Tremendous in-flight shot!

[Sindri Skulason]

Excellent series. Very well done indeed. :-)

[calicokat]

Great in flight, nice work on all