The Other Ducks

When searching for the Wood Duck last week at
Lake of the Lilies
I came across a few other ducks that have come for the winter.
None of these are regulars.

Now, if you take pictures of any kind of wildlife, 

you will be nodding your head through the text of this post!

If they swim in a lake, they will always be swimming in the dead center of a lake...

If they are swimming in a lake, the lake will be choppy just like the ocean...

If they are sitting by a tree, there will always be at least one branch in front of them...
They are sleeping...

The sun is never out when you get to your spot, even though it was out when you left your house...

If the sun does come out, you experience cloud cover the minute you are ready to take your picture...

These are just a few of the problems of a wildlife photographer...
but we still capture the image.
So...let me show you through pictures...


Here is a group of Greater Scaup
all sleeping...all male except for the one brown female on the right,
I surely feel for her!


A group of Ruddy Ducks it's difficult to tell if there are a few females in there.
All sleeping, all way out!


A Male Bufflehead


Buffleheads, one female, one male.


The Hooded Mergansers are here for winter...
Female on top...


this is the Male!
These are the worse pictures I have ever taken.

So there you have it, and if you hold a camera in your hand, 
it is something you already knew!

I'll be back and I will do better!

Wise Words On Sunday