“Big” as in a big post, featuring everyone’s favourite waterfowl, ducks! This is part 2 of Weekend Update, from Sunday afternoon at Presque Isle State Park, moving on from the Bald Eagle, past the poorly parked ice fisherfolk at Horseshoe Bay, to North Pier!
Only problem w/ North Pier photography this time of year is shooting against the sun, but still some nice shots, even if oftentimes backlit, like these landing Lesser Scaups:
Birds frequently congregate against the bottom of the pilings @ North/South Pier, so one bird photography ‘trick’ is to carefully approach the edge (e.g., avoid falling in) for looking over the side = might get some relatively closeup shots, like this male Red-breasted Merganser:
These are landing Redheads w/ Lesser Scaup in the water:
Following are all Redheads in flight landing in mixed ducks:
