Ducks (Muscovy's to be exact)

[bulldurham]

Ducks are anything but graceful, but they do provide moments of great levity among us mere mortals who can only fly if pushed from a high precipice and then only for a short period which most often ends badly. At least they can land, albeit often not in the most gracious way...

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4 The Approach

5 Third Wire Hook

7 Throttling Back

8 Release Wire and Go to Idle

 

[baturn]

Great sequence! Bit of algae in that water?

 

[bulldurham]

Pollen..lots of pollen

 

[Jasii]

A very nice set Chris Loved it! The closeup offered in the 2nd made my day.
Thank you for sharing this.

 

[PropilotBW]

Nice flare shots! That's the "ugly duck".

 

[k5MOW]

Great shots.

 

[dannylightning]

great captures of a ugly duck landing in a lake of slime lol

i really like the 1st 3 photos.

 

[weepete]

Really good set, certainly gave me a chuckle. Cracking shots too..

 

[DarkShadow]

All wildlife is beautiful to me even when its a ugly duckling.Great Shots.

 

[BillM]

THat is some seriously bad water lol

But really good shots !!!