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Red Breasted Merganzer
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Red Breasted Merganzer

by Bill Leggett

Gallery: AvianPosted February 22, 20184,139 views3 comments
Another from Fort De Soto park in February 2013. Looking at All About Birds it appears this is either a female or nonbreeding male. You can see by the bow wave this bird was moving along at "hull speed". I didn't lead the bird so I re-framed toward the right using content aware crop. 4/3rds original was cropped to 3:2 aspect.

E-5 ZD 300 F2.8 +EC-14 Wimberley I, ISO 400 1/1000 f13 -1/3EV

Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by David Schoen on February 22, 2018 at 2:59 PM
Really good lighting and detail on this red breasted Merganser.  I really like the color in the larger image.  Really fine point of view.
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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 22, 2018 at 5:51 PM
Nice job, Bill.  Good crisp image of the Merganser and I like the spiky hairdo.
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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on February 22, 2018 at 10:22 PM
A very nice look at this species Bill, good lighting and detail. devil
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