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olga1913

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Nov 22, 2009 19:54 | #1

Two trumpeter swans on a local saltwater flat near Sitka, Alaska.

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jgrussell

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Nov 22, 2009 22:24 | #2

Nice capture.

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Nov 22, 2009 22:40 | #3

The neck feathers look warm, I wonder if this texture is unique to swans?, nice shot

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Nov 22, 2009 22:51 | #4

It's a beautiful setting.

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Nov 23, 2009 03:44 | #5

Nice shot, looks cold there.

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Nov 23, 2009 04:27 | #6

Nice shot Bruce. We have a few traveling thtough here now. We can hear them out on the river.

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Nov 23, 2009 05:56 | #7

Nice shots. I see these guys here too especially on migration.

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Nov 23, 2009 22:19 as a reply to @ gabebalazs's post | #8

Hello,

Thanks for the nice comments. We have had a colder snap here. We do have years where swans will stick around all winter provided there is enough open water. Their neck feathers are so hard to get to appear to be defined. These birds always look ofer exposed to me. I will get one right some time.

We were luck enough to not have hollywood crawling all over sitka this last year and a half. As a result The Proposal was shot in some small town on the east coast and not Sitka. Rumor has it there is a few seconds of real footage in the film when a character is driving. No official word here yet. We did have a Morton Salt commercial shot here though.

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Nov 24, 2009 06:11 | #9

Nice shots, Bruce. We saw swans along the road to Haines once, but they were a distance away.

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Nov 24, 2009 08:54 | #10

Nice shot.

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