Hoodies, Mergansers and Wigeon

Today was a simply gorgeous day, sunny, light winds and 10 deg. Celsius.

I managed to make it out to a local pond in downtown Dartmouth where local waterfowl congregate over the winter. A zillion mallards and gulls, but out in the middle were these Common Mergansers, a couple of Hoodies and along the shore the Wigeons came out to graze along the banks.

Here's my take for the day.

Common Mergansers (man they're hard to get without blowing out the whites!)

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Nice, wish I could get that close to ours

Nice variety.

Very nice set John!

davtackett wrote in post #16709477
Nice, wish I could get that close to ours

Thanks. Other than the wigeon tho, all the rest are pretty severe crops ~70%, using a 500mm and a 2x extender. They were reallly far away!

jhayesvw wrote in post #16709874
Nice variety.

Thank you.

CMOats wrote in post #16710357
Very nice set John!

Thanks. These are the first I've managed in a number of weeks.

Lovely series John.