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Sep 19, 2011 10:00 |  #1

Got lucky the other day....

It seems, if you listen to Mother Nature long enough....she will speak to you....

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Sep 19, 2011 12:08 |  #2

Nice pic in tough conditions of an immature merg.


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Sep 20, 2011 07:38 as a reply to  @ Ornithologist's post |  #3

Thanks.

The mother (see below), and a few others just went past. She then turned back and starting sqauking. I looked back to the right and I see Jr. running with, I believe, a small Bullhead.

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Sep 20, 2011 10:32 as a reply to  @ jjenkins11's post |  #4

Those are excellent! Very cool to have caught the fish shot!


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Sep 22, 2011 08:02 as a reply to  @ Gator Stealth's post |  #5

Thanks. I caught the whole seq. - swimming, to running, back to swimming.

Like I said....I got lucky :)

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Sep 22, 2011 14:37 |  #6

Where did you find Crystal water?
Lovely captures.


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Sep 23, 2011 14:06 |  #7

patlannon wrote in post #13146313 (external link)
Where did you find Crystal water?
Lovely captures.

I was up in the Adirondacks.....early AM (7ish)...


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Sep 24, 2011 11:16 as a reply to  @ jjenkins11's post |  #8

neat captures




  
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