Female Shoveler
/This gorgeous Female Shoveler has been visiting one of the local ponds for several days now. Hopefully her mate and a few friends join her soon otherwise she will leave and take a bit of her beauty with her.
Blue-winged Teal -Life List
/Blue-winged Teal are very unusual to see in Virginia, they usually migrate much further south but a small group has made Dutch Gap Conservation Area in Chester VA their winter home. They have been maintaining a distance from the many, many birders who have flocked to DGCA to see them making it hard to get photographs but on this particular later morning I was lucky enough to see this beautiful female sunning, eating and swimming right off-shore near pier #1.
Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chester VA
Olympus OMD-EM1X, Olympus 100-400 lens + MC-14
Illusion in Flight
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Do you see it? Caught me off guard for sure.
Mystery Duck with Friends
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Mystery Duck still hanging around Echo Lake, Henrico VA with the French geese
Synchronized Eating
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Three Ring-necked ducks enjoying their meal.