Great Woodies Matt! Reflections even! These are so hard to get. So glad you got out while you were in AR. Where did you see the Gadwall? You have a great capture there also. When we were in Bentonville for Phil's Novar training I spent the days around the Buffalo River. I loved that trip. I hope we get to go back someday. I could have spent a year there. There is a photographer that lives up in the Ozarks that posts amazing pictures of his state. I'll try to send you a link. Happy hunting!
Thanks very much for all of your comments; you are far too kind! The gadwall are fairly common, I got some of the shots of them below the dam at Hoover Reservoir back in January. During the coldest months the ducks that are around congregate in any open water they can find. Blendon Woods Metro Park has a waterfowl preserve that is bubbled in winter to keep it from freezing, so many ducks there and relatively easy to capture them with the camera. There is a nice bunch of woodies there now, I hope they nest and I can get some pics of chicks. I shot most of the divers; cans, redheads, red breasted mergansers, and some of the ringnecks in a housing addition pond along highway 23, just south of South Bloomfield. The water was bubbled and those divers were stacked in like crazy during the extreme cold of January and February when again most everything else was frozen. It is a two acre pond that had about 300 ducks on it. Again, thanks for your comments, I truly appreciate all your kind words.
Great Woodies Matt! Reflections even! These are so hard to get. So glad you got out while you were in AR. Where did you see the Gadwall? You have a great capture there also. When we were in Bentonville for Phil's Novar training I spent the days around the Buffalo River. I loved that trip. I hope we get to go back someday. I could have spent a year there. There is a photographer that lives up in the Ozarks that posts amazing pictures of his state. I'll try to send you a link. Happy hunting!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for all of your comments; you are far too kind! The gadwall are fairly common, I got some of the shots of them below the dam at Hoover Reservoir back in January. During the coldest months the ducks that are around congregate in any open water they can find. Blendon Woods Metro Park has a waterfowl preserve that is bubbled in winter to keep it from freezing, so many ducks there and relatively easy to capture them with the camera. There is a nice bunch of woodies there now, I hope they nest and I can get some pics of chicks.
DeleteI shot most of the divers; cans, redheads, red breasted mergansers, and some of the ringnecks in a housing addition pond along highway 23, just south of South Bloomfield. The water was bubbled and those divers were stacked in like crazy during the extreme cold of January and February when again most everything else was frozen. It is a two acre pond that had about 300 ducks on it. Again, thanks for your comments, I truly appreciate all your kind words.
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