Landing gear down

[buzzsaw]

I took the day off Friday to enjoy the sun and lack of wind. I went to one of my tried and true spots and came away with a few images.

Common Merganser incoming.

Then came the Scaup.

[Deitz Dittrich]

awesome! Great picts.. love the one of the duck skiing!

[Steve Foss]

Nice stuff, Mike. Sure wish that open water would find its way north.

[mountaindew]

Mike,

I see you're an "early bird" posting early this morning! So am I!

Those are beautiful images! Sharp..very tight and nice! Especially liked the third picture of him "waterskiing" You always take brilliant pictures with bright colors on those ducks!

I went out yesterday morning on this pond near Henderson, and I've got a couple of shots of the ducks. But it's on my laptop, and I'm using this morning on "office" computer at home right now. I need to get ready to go out to do another Job Sandblasting till this afternoon, so I will come back later on and post the pictures.

Wonderful set Mike!

[buzzsaw]

Thanks guys!

Steve, not much open water here yet, but where there is, is where I set up in a blind.

MD, yeppers, I have to get up early so I can do a few loads of laundry, the dishes and clean up the house a bit before I take off... or my wife maybe wouldn't be so leniant to my photography desires. Gotta roll, I'll check in this afternoon.

[finnbay]

Nice stuff, Buzz! Love the bluebill shots!

[Royce Aardahl]

very cool! love the first 3

[Dbl]

Swwweeeett Mike. Love the landing shots. The drake Bluebill with the still water is close to perfection!

[JR777]

Great shots! I looking forward to capturing some of these fine birds myself.

[buzzsaw]

Thanks guys! I must say that I went back to the same spot today and it was a bust! So I went scouting and found a location that was holding... Woodies, Ringneck, Bluebills, Red Breasted, Hooded & Common Mergansers, Pied Billed Grebe, Northern Shovellers (alot), Bufflehead, Goldeneye, Mallards, Blue Winged Teal, Kingfishers, Ruddys etc.... the only problem was that I hiked in far and without my blind.

[Bigeye30"]

Absolutely amazing, you photographers in this forumn are absolutely amazing, great work everyone.