Wood Duck

[Snowshoe]

I'm trying out a new camera with better auto focus and tracking and got this. It's my old lens and the saying goes, glass before camera, but the camera made this lens work better. I could not see this kind of colour or even get as many shots with the old camera. Heavily cropped to get the Mallards, Black Ducks and huge Mute Swans out of the picture.

[smartrock]

Oh, that's really lovely!

[IRISHWISTLER]

Snowshoe.
Great shot Mate.👌

Mike ☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸

[SunDance]

That's a beauty!

[barry581]

It's all about the glass! Nice shot!

Do you do any editing or processing? I use Lightroom CC and really like it.

[Mr Kleb]

Wow, great image!

[Jollymolly]

Lovely photo

[POPTOP]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[Snowshoe]

Thanks all. I've been twice to photo the Wood Ducks. And the other geese and ducks at this spot. Actually, three times but no WD there the first time. Twice a nice man has been there who seems to love helping people ID species and point them out. The day of this photo there were 21 swans (did not count how many Mute and how many Trumpeter) and the day before this man counted 29 swans.

@barry 581 I use Olympus Viewer which is soon to be replaced by Olympus Workspace. These are the free editing programs that come with the camera. The only processing on this is it's converted from raw to jpeg and cropped.

ETA: Oops no, not heavily cropped. The original was only the bird, though it is cropped.