Feb
10
It Pays to Look Your Best
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
Grooming is an important part of a bird’s day. This hen and drake Northern Pintail know it pays to look your best.
Archive for the ‘Ducks’ Category
Feb
1
A Hole in the Water
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
This Northern Pintail leapt out of the water leaving a hole behind.
Jan
26
Drake Northern Pintail
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
These drake Northern Pintails are hard to pass up when I’m looking for a photograph to post here.
Jan
23
Pintail Airways
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
There are hundreds of Northern Pintails feeding in a marsh in southern Delaware this winter. I don’t think I have ever seen so many in one place before. I keep photographing them because every day I see them it may be the last, if they move on to another spot. This is from this morning.
Jan
21
Drake Pintail
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
I had hoped to catch the setting sun at the coast tonight, but the clouds closed down the sun pretty early. So, I looked back over the pintail photographs I have taken recently and found this handsome drake.
Jan
18
Pintails Leaping
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
The weather has warmed up here in Delaware but the Northern Pintails are still feeding in the same places in the marsh that they frequented when it was frozen over. My thanks to them for being cooperative subjects.
Jan
6
Pintails VS the Wind
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
These Northern Pintails fought hard against a strong wind a few days ago. At times they flew backwards as the wind overpowered their flapping.
Jan
2
Jumping Pintails
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
The wind was howling again tonight in the marsh as cold northerly wind pours in on the back sdie of the storm sitting off New England. Pintails were plentiful on the choppy water surface and jumped up every few minutes into the wind. These three photographs are from tonight just before sunset.
Dec
29
Northern Pintails
Filed Under Ducks, Winter 2010
Winter weather has returned to Delaware with strong northerly winds today. These Northern Pintails were feeding in the marsh in preparation for a long, cold windy night. In the top photograph the hen may be saying ‘See ya’ as she jumps up from her small group.
Dec
3
Hooded Merganser
This adult Hooded Merganser was photographed a while ago, but I thought he was worth showing off again.
