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ssheipel

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Northern Pintail duck. Nikon Z6; 300pf w/ 1.4 tc
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Nice cooperative subject
She was in a small cattails encircled shallow pond above a small stream that fed into a larger pond and then swam right toward me and perched there nicely on a minor log jam; stopping where there was a small opening through the thorny shrubbery (think it was wild roses) and the reeds. I was on my knees in three inches of water choked with grasses at the edge of the pond and had to wait for the wind to blow several reeds out of the way to get focus on the duck. So yes her choice of perch was very cooperative; literally I tried high or lower and several other angles and there was no other clear through the obstructing plants than the one that landed me these shots :)
 
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