Common Goldeneye Wingflap.
Most of the waters have now frozen over up here, but some areas where the water is fast moving it stays open year-round and attracts the over-wintering goldeneyes. The goldeneyes hang out here every winter and concentrate on those areas of open waters...the only time we can get close to them as they are skittish. Even then one needs to be patient as they either fly a few hundred yards away or wade to the far bank of the river. Good thing that after a while (a good 20 minutes or so) they slowly drift back close...it does get cold lying on the ice waiting! This fella was kind enough to offer a nice wing flap from close range after an icy bath...
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light, handheld while lying prone on the ice, more than FF (added canvas left and top), a few larger and undesirably placed snow flakes removed on the face and wings, removed some sort of twig on the bill.
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