{"id":113479,"date":"2022-07-02T05:35:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=113479"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:47:39","slug":"a-preening-redhead-actually-out-of-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/02\/a-preening-redhead-actually-out-of-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Preening Redhead, Actually Out Of The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

A first for me.<\/p>\n

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Eleven days ago, while I was standing at the edge of a pond with my camera gear on a tripod and photographing cormorants directly in front of me, I happened to look behind me and saw this adult male Redhead. He was out of the water and preening within about 30′ from me.<\/p>\n

Seeing a Redhead out of the water was such an unusual experience for me I immediately abandoned the cormorants, moved my tripod back to get a better light angle and hoped the Redhead would stay where he was and continue to preen. He did, for long enough for me to get several hundred photos of him in good light.<\/p>\n

Eventually an ATV came along and scared him back into the water. I’m not a fan of ATV’s…<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t resist cropping one of them to a portrait. Handsome devil.<\/p>\n

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In all that time he barely moved his feet, so his body angle didn’t change much but he sure gave me lots of preening poses.<\/p>\n

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And some of them, like this one, looked pretty silly. He was trying to reach some feathers near the base of his neck and had to go through some contortions to have a chance at accomplishing it.<\/p>\n

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And it worked. The look on his face suggests that he was surprised that it did.<\/p>\n

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Some folks might think of Redheads as “only a duck” and wonder why I’d devote an entire post to them. But I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a Redhead out of the water before (except in flight) and I know<\/em> I’ve never posted photos of them on land to my blog, because I checked. So, for me this was an unusual opportunity worthy of documenting.<\/p>\n

Besides, now I know what Redhead feet and legs look like.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A first for me. (5 photos)<\/p>\n

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