Female Common Goldeneye

[gail bisson]

We have a small pond on our property in Ingonish. This year we have 3 young male green teals that are frequenting the pond. No girls around so I am calling them the 3 bachelors.
Anyway, I put my waders on and got into the pond at sunrise to get some shots of them but to my surprise this female common goldeneye flew in. She swam through this lovely patch of golden water.
The green winged teals never showed up!
Canon 5D MK IV
600mm III and 1.4x III
F 5.6 1/800 ISO 1600
Crop to ~70% FF
Cleaned up the eye and used a luminosity mask on the water to tone down the brightness slightly.
There was a blue cast on the feathers due to the bird being in the shadows so I fixed that,
Gail