This morning I decided to practice photographing wood ducks in the pond with my Canon 100-400 mm lens and 1.4X extender. My first photos were awful. None of the fast moving ducks I photographed were quite in focus. I fiddled with my lens and my camera menu selections thinking that Read more…
I bought my new bike Tuesday and brought it home. Biking, Snow, and Wood Ducks Wednesday morning I took my first ride around the neighborhood. It was cold, but I dressed for the weather. It felt good riding, cold air in my face, wheels turning round and round, sometimes coasting, Read more…
Last week the last ice of the season (I hope) disappeared from the pond. And this week the ducks returned to the pond in force. A group of male mallards have been hanging out in and around the pond. We often call them The Boys on the Beach because they Read more…
Happy Saturday friends. Ducks and Leaf Art I spent the morning enjoying the wood ducks and mallards swimming in the pond and at a Zoom meeting of an art group making leaf art. It was so good to see the ducks back in the pond. They had been absent for Read more…
Yesterday, there was lots of activity at the edge of the pond beside the old willow tree log that the turtles like to sun on. Ducks, Turtles, and Spring Greening (Slowly) All day there were 4-5 mallard ducks swimming back and forth across the pond. Sometimes they napped on the Read more…