Doug West
05-15-2012, 01:47 PM
This was captured at Lake Isaac near Cleveland, OH. Not the best as far as IQ,
but I've never seen a shot like this...then again, I don't get out much :)
This was some type of mating ritual. The male and female were at opposite ends
of the lake. They just started quacking at each other, circling in place. Then they
started for each other. Because of the distance I was away from them, I was using
my 600 as binoculars.
As they're getting closer, they're still quacking and I'm thinking, 'they better slow
down or they're going to crash'. When they got a few feet from each other it hit
me that they were going to run into each other, so I just started firing.
After the first butting of heads, they would do a 360 and ram into each other
again. After doing this about 10 times the male jumped on top of the female,
taking her underwater and 'ducked' her.
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but I've never seen a shot like this...then again, I don't get out much :)
This was some type of mating ritual. The male and female were at opposite ends
of the lake. They just started quacking at each other, circling in place. Then they
started for each other. Because of the distance I was away from them, I was using
my 600 as binoculars.
As they're getting closer, they're still quacking and I'm thinking, 'they better slow
down or they're going to crash'. When they got a few feet from each other it hit
me that they were going to run into each other, so I just started firing.
After the first butting of heads, they would do a 360 and ram into each other
again. After doing this about 10 times the male jumped on top of the female,
taking her underwater and 'ducked' her.
112879