A simple photograph of a female Mallard. This is a shot I might have ignored if not for the light through the reeds.

Other photos taken just yards away, in a different direction, were stark with a deep blue colored water. Of course most everything else I shot that day was away from the reeds.

Male Mallards are obviously beautiful birds. But some maybe more so than others. I think these three birds are the gold standard.  I was lucky to have found them on a good clear day.

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This first photograph may be my new Canada Goose favorite. The sun and warm weather, in December, makes for great photos.

Late afternoon the soft light makes the ponds and lakes like glass. I picked these 2 images, but it was hard so many were nice.

I came on this guy bobbing around by himself in the Connecticut River. There wasn’t another duck anywhere.

Since I already have about 2 million photographs of Mallards I only shot a dozen or so images.

Moderation is important in photography.

Since early spring I have been trying to get a decent photograph of a Kingfisher.  They are very shy and unbelievably fast. In Rocky Neck they tend to stay out in the marsh near the Osprey nests.  That’s a far shot no matter what lens you use.

On the river Kingfishers will sit in overhanging branches. You might see them dive for fish, but again usually too far.

Now that the leaves are gone I can see them and their favorite fishing branches.

For a few moments today this male sat and let me move around the bank getting some shots. Not all that close, these were taken at 500mm . However, considering how they typically act I was happy to get these.