Tag: gadwall
Some Recent Urban Pond Birds
In the last three days I’ve visited three urban ponds in the Salt Lake Valley while looking for birds. (6 photos of 6 species)
Some Recent Birds
Avian Potpourri From My Recent Trip To Bear River MBR
Gadwall Takeoff, Eventually
I can be guilty of paying less attention to ducks on my blog than I should. Today I make some amends.
A Few Recent Birds
This is one of my roughly semiannual attempts to give my readers a feel for some of the birds I’ve been photographing recently that didn’t make it to my blog.
Some Recent Birds
A bird potpourri of sorts, just to give you a feeling for some of the other birds I’ve been photographing in the last ten days.
Landing Gadwall (and why I can still enjoy a flawed image)
Gadwall In Flight And At Speed
A Mixed Bag Of Recent Birds
Occasionally I review my recent images and look for photos that I may have missed that hold some interest for me. This is a collection of eight of those images, taken over the past several weeks.
Some Recent Birds In My World
This selection of seven photos is a fairly representative cross-section of the bird species I’ve been seeing recently.
Gadwall Stealing Food From A Coot
Gadwalls are well-known for stealing food (kleptoparasitism) from American Coots . They eat the same kinds of food (submerged aquatic vegetation), Gadwalls are almost a third bigger than coots and the two species often feed together in mixed flocks so being the bullies on the block, Gadwalls can’t resist taking advantage of the situation.