I give my right arm for those moments you capture when wildlife does something humorous, something we humans can so easily read into what’s really not there but is funny to us. Such is the case for this photo of a pair of Canvasback Ducks photographed a couple weeks back at our AK Base Camp.
I’ve just finished 9 days of populating 2x 2TB of new hard drives and repopulating 3x 1TB of old drives (I was spared messing with another 2TB) as I expand my rabbit farm to manage all the digital files (having to make a rabbit hutch too boot!). What a royal pain in the butt and a bore moving, doing chksum and recreating thumbnails. I’m just now able to upload the images from AK & the air races to the network. I can read a whole new meaning into that kwaking duck photo after this experience.
What’s really happening is there are two males and one female flying past us (one male is out of the shot). The two males are after the one female (birds & the bees stuff) and I guess kwaking in her ear as they fly is the way to her heart. They buzzed right on by and all the way to the end of the marsh. I wonder who got the girl in the end?
Photo captured by D3, 600VR on Lexar UDMA digital film