I'm happy. I took 4 very bad photos of a duck, and I'm pleased. Every time I visit the beaver pond, a few ducks take off as soon as I arrive, and go to hide in the grasses on the far side, too far away to see them, even. And this time, I had the camera on and pointing in the right direction, (because I'd been chasing dragonflies) and I caught one in flight. And it's a wood duck!
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| Halfway there. |
Those brown things are water lily leaves. Many of them are standing above the water line, and most are dead. It's been a hard summer for them, even though the beavers have reinforced their dam at the outlet of the pond.
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| The wood duck. His mate followed him, but I wasn't fast enough to get her. |
About those dragonflies: tomorrow.
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Estoy feliz. Saqué cuatro fotos muy malas de un pato, y lo estoy celebrando. Porque cada vez que visito la laguna de los castores, salen volando unos patos, y siempre llegan al otro lado de la laguna y se esconden entre los equisetos, antes de que les puedo sacar fotos. Pero esta vez, tenía la cámara lista, y apuntaba en la dirección de donde se levantó el pato (porque había estado buscando libélulas) y alcancé a sacar fotos mientras volaba. Y era un pato arcoíris macho, ¡tan bello!
- Ya va por la mitad de la laguna. Las cosas cafés en el agua son lirios acuáticos. Muchos se levantan por encima de la superficie, y casi todos están muertos. Ha sido un verano difícil, aunque los castores han seguido manteniendo su presa a la salida de la laguna.
- El pato. La hembra le siguió, pero no tuve tiempo de capturarla.
Acerca de esas libélulas: mañana habrá fotos.
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