Wood Ducks Galore!

Paid a visit to Dawson Creek Park in Hillsboro, Oregon after eBird indicated a profusion of wood ducks, up to 350 of them! It was a really rainy afternoon and it rained throughout the 1.5 hours I spent walking around. But the wood ducks were there, not quite 350, but I counted at least 125 of them. Here are a few of them! Hope you like them!

All taken with the 7D2 & 100-400 II.

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Scrumhalf wrote in post #18168162
Paid a visit to Dawson Creek Park in Hillsboro, Oregon after eBird indicated a profusion of wood ducks, up to 350 of them! It was a really rainy afternoon and it rained throughout the 1.5 hours I spent walking around. But the wood ducks were there, not quite 350, but I counted at least 125 of them. Here are a few of them! Hope you like them!

All taken with the 7D2 & 100-400 II.

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IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/NBtw​vT 7D2_4775 by Scrumhalf, on Flickr

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IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/NBrG​4V 7D2_4786 by Scrumhalf, on Flickr

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IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/NBrG​ep 7D2_4781 by Scrumhalf, on Flickr

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IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/MDqt​tk 7D2_4767 by Scrumhalf, on Flickr


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https://flic.kr/p/MDqt​jn7D2_4787 by Scrumhalf, on Flickr


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https://flic.kr/p/N9Xc​597D2_4766 by Scrumhalf, on Flickr

Very nice series Sam on a beautiful bird. That last pic is a wall hanger.

Thank you, Terry! Not sure what they were arguing about! Maybe the male didn't want to cede the high perch to the femaie!

marvelous! I've never seen more than a pair of them.

Apparently, I was there too early, at about 330pm. I was told that a whole bunch show up a bit later to roost. I might go there again this evening around 5pm. According to ebird, there were over 350 wood ducks roosting there in the evening a couple of days ago, and a couple of mandarins as well. Probably escapees, so I won't count them in my life list, but I have never seen a mandarin, so I hope they are there.

Excellent set Scott, it must be quite a sight all of those Wooders all together like that. Top notch work here.

Thank you Bret! Appreciate the kind words!

Well, I went back to see if I could spot the mandarin duck.

This was the scene when I arrived at about 5:20pm. This is about a third of the wood ducks in the water, so that gives you an idea of how many there were even before the final flocks flew in.

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very nice- what a treat for you and us as it turns out

Really nice set.

Nice shots! That's crazy the amount you have there. We have a couple, maybe, in the Tahoe area, but we got lots of mallards

Awesome and wow in the same sentence! I consider myself lucky to see one or two in a year, and can't imagine seeing that many together.