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went to wollemi national park today and was walking along a creek when I came upon a small clearing with a family of wood ducks lying around.
I was lying in the dirt for a while and they seemed to forget about me and go about their business.

there were 2 adults and 2 juveniles. This is a juvenile.
I couldnt help myself cos I thought this was soooo cute.
mother duck did see me and seemed like she was going to attack me but not before I got a few shots off.
Steve

Yep, it's a cutie. It's a good clear, sharp photo. How far away were you from the little fella when you took this shot?

Beautiful nature portrait steve lovelyOOF and sharp, particularly round the eye where it needs to be. Great! Gee, I can here the duck shooters loading their shot guns already
cheers
marco

doug:
This was around 4 metres away.
original image is full frame but cropped to vertical
taken with the 80-400vr @ 400mm
Marco: I think the npws guys would have a bit to say about the shotgunners.

Steve

Steve this is a great wood duck photo. Makes a nice portrait. Background works really well. I saw a family of 20 of these guys one time.

thanks nicole,

I really like this.
I have another with it looking 3/4 towards the camera also.
I took about 30 odd shots of this family from the prone position and they only really became alarmed when I tried to get closer for some wider angle stuff.
mother duck really looked angry. have a few of that too!! I moved away then and all was well.
This was a great place to see birds.
Saw kookaburras, king parrots, glossy black cockatoos (annoyed that I didnt get a shot of these.) I see all these sulphur crested ones and heard them flying my way and assumed it was them. @ point blank range (less than 3 metres the glossy blacks went by and all I could do was point the 400 in the general direction and swear!)
all sorts of stuff.

Steve