Male Woodie Chick

This is a close up of a male Wood Duck in molt to show gender. I was under a camo net as this baby came withing 3 meters of my position. You can see the color emerge on top of head and darkening below eyes of feathers as the bright colors begin to come out and also there is color change on top of bird. It seems that these chicks are about a month old as I have followed them up and down Turtle Creek of late.

There is slight blur in beak area as this chick talked to me as he got closer and closer. The fallen berry in water held his interest most of the while as he tried to figure out how to eat it.

Sony a77
70-400 G Sony 4.5 zoom
Camera hand held on ground to get angle.
LR3 raw processing
PS5 color and sharpening and removal of small debris in water.