Waterfowl thread

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Canada Geese with Pintails at dawn, Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, March, 2021.
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Just hanging out at the water's edge; I had heard this little guy scrambling around in the reeds for probably 20 minutes prior to this shot (but had no visual).

It eventually came out right in front of me (I even had to back up a little because it was closer than the lens' minimum focus distance).

D500, 500 f4, f/4, 1/800, iso 280.

Little grebe by Jochen Maes
 
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Came across this male Ruddy Duck doing his courtship display this morning. They'll lift up their tails and then rapidly beat that brilliant blue bill against their chests until the water bubbles up in front of them before letting out a belching sound.

Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/5.6, 1/2000", ISO 280
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Not really traditional 'waterfowl' as much as a marsh bird but was photographing Swallows flying over this duckweed covered pond when I saw motion and locked onto this juvenile Sora for a few shots before it ducked into the reeds. I wasn't really sure what I was shooting until I got home and got a good look on the monitor as I've never seen a Sora in flight before and usually I see them stalking along in the reeds and mostly trying to keep out of sight.

D500, 300mm PF + TC-14 iii, f/5.6, 1/2500", ISO 320
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High key shot of a mute swan.

I was at a local waterhole to see if the resident kingfishers would show themselves (spoiler: they did, but no shot I'm happy with). This mute swan however seemed to be fairly intrigued with what I was doing as it kept on swimming back and forth relatively close to me (this went on for about 10 minutes or so).

So a perfect opportunity to play around a bit and see what I could make of it. This is my favourite shot of the bunch I took.

D500, 500pf, f/5.6, 1/500, iso 2500

Mute swan by Jochen Maes
 
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Pied-billed Grebe - taken last September at a local duck pond. For waterfowl I like to lay prone on the ground at the waters edge to get as low as possible. I really dislike how my photos look when shooting down on them because they lack the foreground/background separation and have too much of the water in focus.

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