{"id":126728,"date":"2023-01-04T05:12:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=126728"},"modified":"2023-01-04T05:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:52:21","slug":"two-interesting-coots-from-yesterday-one-angry-the-other-dramatically-leucistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/two-interesting-coots-from-yesterday-one-angry-the-other-dramatically-leucistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Interesting Coots From Yesterday – One Angry, The Other Dramatically Leucistic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately my life has been dominated by doctor and physical therapy appointments at the hospital, daily PT sessions at home, down time while I’m recovering from PT and trying to get through endless days on end of clouds, snow and really poor light for photography. On those rare occasions when we’ve had some brief breaks in the clouds I always seem to have had some kind of appointment, including one a few days ago to get my pickup’s oil changed. At least that’s done, finally.<\/p>\n

But the spell was broken late yesterday afternoon when we got a sucker hole in the clouds and I didn’t have any other commitments so I visited one of the ponds I frequent to see if I might get lucky.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

The most interesting shots I got were of American Coots. This is the time of year they start to get frisky with each other so I concentrated on trying to photograph them during their brief but intense skirmishes. Of the shots I got I liked this one best as the angry coot chased off another coot, out of frame to the left, that it thought had infringed on its feeding territory.<\/p>\n

I’m including this photo for two reasons. I think it’s a pretty good action shot and it shows what a normal coot (if there’s such a thing as a “normal” coot) looks like – in contrast to the next coot I photographed which was anything but normal.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a dramatically leucistic<\/a><\/span><\/span> coot out in the middle of the pond. It never did come in close so these photos have been cropped significantly but it was close enough for me to document its unique coloring reasonably well.<\/p>\n

This photo shows the highly unusual colors and patterns on its left side and…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

this one documents those on its right side and flank. Yes, there’s a twig in its bill.<\/p>\n

It’s the strangest looking coot I’ve ever seen, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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The strangest looking coot I’ve ever seen. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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