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<\/p>\nBald Eagle + thousands of ducks = instant pandemonium.<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning I visited Antelope Island with the goal of trying to learn the tricky ins and outs of my new camera. There wasn’t much action on the island itself but there were ducks along the causeway, mostly Northern Shovelers and Green-winged Teals with a few Northern Pintails in the mix. The vast majority of them were far away on the water but occasionally small groups of ducks would fly by fairly close so I worked on my skills with birds in flight.<\/p>\n
Suddenly thousands and thousands of ducks in the distance rose into the air in a panic.<\/p>\n
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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n The catalyst for their agitation was the sudden appearance of a near-adult Bald Eagle looking for duck for breakfast. I could tell by ‘his’ erratic flight pattern through the clouds of ducks that he was on the hunt but on this occasion he was no match for his speedy quarry, though it wasn’t for lack of trying.<\/p>\n These two Green-winged Teals zoomed right past him and for me the three banking teals in the photo help to make the shot, in part because all three are sharp or sharp enough. It appears to me that the eagle is watching the two ducks almost directly below him but knows that he has no chance with them because they’re just too damned fast. I have to wonder if the ducks were deliberately taunting him. Ducks gotta have fun too…<\/p>\n After making multiple attempts on the ducks the eagle gave up and landed on a chunk of ice out on the lake.\u00a0Probably resting before his next attempt at catching a ducky breakfast.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bald Eagle + thousands of ducks = instant pandemonium.\u00a0<\/p>\n