Hooded Merganzer and young

**turns** · 07-02-2011, 12:07 AM

I think this is a Hooded Merganser, had to wait about two hours for them to come out of the reeds before I could get a shot.

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**edG** · 07-02-2011, 05:40 AM

nicely captured

**Iguanasan** · 07-02-2011, 08:06 PM

Very cool! Excellent patience!

**Bambi** · 07-02-2011, 08:50 PM

nicely done! I don't have that kind of patience!!

**turns** · 07-02-2011, 09:14 PM

Thanks for the compliments and looking Ed, Iggy, and Bambi, I had talked to a pro nature photographer and as he said you always need to have patience and let the wildlife come to you. You cant go chasing it.

**Hillbillygirl** · 07-03-2011, 07:27 AM

Nice capture of a very nervous hard to capture species.
You can find a very cheap blanket blind just to throw over you and that will help immensely. All thats needed is to break up your human outline.