Female Northern Pintail Duck

Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
edited October 10, 2012 in Wildlife
For me I have always seen the male Pintail around my area. This year was the first time seeing the Female Pintail, and this gal was not afraid of people at all. In fact I had to keep moving back to get a focus lock on her.

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Regards - Dennis

Dennis Kaczor Photography

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  • Brian_SBrian_S Registered Users Posts: 188 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2012
    beautiful images as always Dennis, well done
  • Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2012
    Brian_S wrote: »
    beautiful images as always Dennis, well done


    Hi Brian and thank you for your kind words on these images.
    Regards - Dennis

    Dennis Kaczor Photography
  • PGMPGM Registered Users Posts: 2,007 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2012
    Dennis, these are beautiful! Were you using a flash? What time of day? You have to be proud of these! Best, Pam
  • Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2012
    PGM wrote: »
    Dennis, these are beautiful! Were you using a flash? What time of day? You have to be proud of these! Best, Pam

    Thank you so much Pam and happy you liked these. 2:00PM was the time these had been taken and I don't use flash when birding as I don't like the effect that I get when using the flash. I think that the only time I would use a flash is on the smaller birds in the shades of the trees.

    Thanks again for your comments.
    Regards - Dennis

    Dennis Kaczor Photography
  • deb22deb22 Registered Users Posts: 428 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2012
    Beautiful Dennis, I love the tones very much. We get the pintails around here but they are Always the first to fly away which bugs me as they are by far my favorite duck species.
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  • Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2012
    deb22 wrote: »
    Beautiful Dennis, I love the tones very much. We get the pintails around here but they are Always the first to fly away which bugs me as they are by far my favorite duck species.

    Thank you Deb, and I agree that the tones really make these stand out. Funny, in this case she kept coming towards me and I had to back up as too much lens with the 500mm, could have used a 70-200 for these as she was 10 feet away.

    You are lucky to see them even though they fly away, we might see one all winter here of the male, but that's about it, and if I recall he was fairly close in too.

    I have a couple more that I will post later on of here, this time on land.
    Regards - Dennis

    Dennis Kaczor Photography
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2012
    Two excellent images, well composed and exposed.
    Harry
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  • Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2012
    Harryb wrote: »
    Two excellent images, well composed and exposed.

    Thanks so much Harry.
    Regards - Dennis

    Dennis Kaczor Photography
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