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A few from today.

Not sure what type of hawk this is.


Owlet. They have grown so much since I saw them two weeks ago.


Red tail hawk at dusk.

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[Nicolas06]

The official line is yes, as long as the taking focal length was 300 or more. The unofficial line is, some of our more notable members cheat a bit with the 60-250.

I take care to include 55-300 pictures only for the 300ùmm settings.. I have nice picture at 260mm or 170mm, but I don't show them here.

[Franc]

just a branch in my front yard
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[mohb]

Sigma 150 500@ 500 Quite a challenge to catch this at a cricket match, they are only small and dash about chasing insects, heavy crop.

[jpzk]

Here are a few photos taken from my trip to Toronto. All were taken on Lake Ontario.

Red Neck Grebe




Long tail duck.


American widgeon



Mute swan

Beautiful images !
What gear did you have?

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K-1 + dfa 150-450
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Wow!
Here I was thinking that the K-1 would not quite show the "reach" when paired with this lens vs. an APS-C camera.
You managed some fine images here.

[WPRESTO]

Eider with a good sized brood. Apparently female eiders will pick up youngsters from other females, or to put it another way, young eiders separated from their mother will attach to any available female with young about the same age and be accepted.

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[Venom3300]

Eider with a good sized brood. Apparently female eiders will pick up youngsters from other females, or to put it another way, young eiders separated from their mother will attach to any available female with young about the same age and be accepted.

Do female mallard ducks also do this? I saw a female mallard today with at least 15 maybe 20 babies with it. I couldnt help but to think that there was no way they could all be hers.

[Ducatigaz]

This is a Grey Wagtail, two shots show it with a beak full of food for it's chicks. Bit of a nightmare to photograph because they never seem to stand still. K-5/FA*600mm f4 ED [IF]

[WPRESTO]

Here's a pretty fellow.

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Do female mallard ducks also do this? I saw a female mallard today with at least 15 maybe 20 babies with it. I couldnt help but to think that there was no way they could all be hers.

15 is a lot for a mallard, the brood size being given in my quick source as one to 13, However the record brood size for a mallard is 24(!), so 15 eggs incubated by one mallard hen is within reason. I have not found any description of mallard females taking in stray offspring, but my personal impression is no, they do not. I can recall watching more than once a female mallard attacking what seemed to be a stray duckling obviously different in size from her own. I'll try checking a bit more.

After some more searching: Apparently many ducks will adopt offspring not their own with two things commonly being critical 1) the duckling entering should be very near the same age as the hen's own brood; 2) generally the younger the ducklings the more likely the adoption will be successful. These observations were made following human attempts to integrate a "stray" duckling into the brood of a hen with young. Whether it happens naturally, as it does with eiders, is unclear for mallards and other duck species.

[jthommo]

Grey Fantail K3 with DA*300/4 + HD1.4x

[riseform]

Say's Phoebe adult and soon to be satisfied juvenile K3ii DA 560

[noelpolar]

K1 arrived today.... 1 hr before sunset.... DFA 150-450

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Convoy
smc PENTAX-F 100-300mm F4.5-5.6 on Pentax K-x
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[WPRESTO]

Puffin preening for its picture.