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Saturday 29 September 2012

Mandarin Ducks (Aix galericulata)

There were about 75 of them at Cannop Ponds. Marvellous, and easy to photograph.



49 comments:

  1. Beautiful shots!
    And I love Warren Zevon :D — excellent choice of tunes!

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  2. just wonderful to see a whole flock! love the new 'proud' header photo, too!

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  3. Fantastic to see these beauties so close!
    Wonderful pictures Bob!
    Cheers!

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  4. PS:
    I love your new banner!! ;-)

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  5. Gorgeous light in these captures of the Mandarin Duck.I always think they are like little works of art.:)

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  6. A flock of Mandarin, now that must be a cracking sight.

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  7. Beautiful to see and beautifully captured Bob, Great new header too...[;o)

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  8. Wonderful presentation, these birds have extraordinary colours. I am greeting

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  9. These are beautiful photos of Bob, great colors.

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  10. Bob, wonderful shots! I really like the header!!
    They are such colourful ducks!

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  11. Gorgeous ducks and beautifil pictures.. Congrat Bob

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  12. Ciao Bob questi pennuti sono meravigliosi! Sei molto bravo!!!

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  13. WOW!! They are just gorgeous! How lucky you were!

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  14. Prachtige kleurrijke foto's van deze mooi gekleurde eenden Bob.
    Gr. Tinie

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  15. What a beautiful new photo in the banner, Bob. Your other pictures are as great as ever. What a lot of mandarin ducks. Greetings, Joke

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  16. Wunderhübsche Enten, und im Header sehr toll...

    Servus
    CL

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  17. oh,they are soooooooo sweet.All Family-)))
    superb shots!!!!
    have a nice wekkend Bob-000

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  18. Bob.....my compliments for this lovely new header....it's really wonderful.

    Greetings, Joop

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  19. truly a beautiful duck, very nice capture of them

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  20. These are beautiful Bob! We ocassionally get an escapee from a private collection here but I haven't gone out to try and get images of them, perhaps I should.

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  21. Bonitas capturas de estos preciosos patos mandarines.Saludos

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  22. mooie nieuew banner en wat een mooie manderijneenden.

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  23. Fantástica la nueva cabecera, Bob, así como esa estupenda piara de patos luciendo un bello plumaje.

    Saludos.

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  24. Wow they are beautiful...dont think we have them here, like your new header

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  25. How delightful, Bob! Splendid captures!

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  26. These are such gorgeous, colorful ducks!! I would love to see them; great photos Bob!

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  27. Great banner/header!

    Glad the rains eased to permit you a little escapism to capture these beauties. Bravo!

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  28. Great photos of the beautiful birds. I had the luck to see one last year, its not so common here :)
    Greetings Susanne

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  29. Mas que colecção tão linda!!!
    Sem mais palavras.

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  30. SO MANY!?


    Wow



    Aloha from Honolulu,

    Comfort Spiral
    =^..^=

    > < } } ( ° >

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  31. 75!!!! The most I have seen once was 3, nice day, Bob!!!!

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  32. probably my favorite type of duck

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  33. Great new header Bob.You had a good day.

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  34. They all look like paintings!

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  35. Wow! They look great scattered all over.

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  36. Oh my - what delightful faces they have!

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  37. Wow Bob, what an amazing pictures of the mandarin duck.
    Much together, I have never seen.
    I find great layout.
    nice Sunday

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  38. So beautiful birds. Great photos, Bob!

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  39. WOW!!!! amazing & beautiful ducks! you must be pretty lucky to see a flock of them like that!!

    and I LOVE your NEW HEADER picture!

    warren zevon, yeah!

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  40. Love these very much and really like that you have a new header.

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  41. Wow! Lovely birds and good pictures!

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  42. Hi Bob! I wish you a beautiful Sunday!

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  43. The Mandarin is a beautiful duck. Great shots, Bob!

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  44. great shots of a beautiful duck!
    i think mandarin ducks are about the prettiest of ducks they are.

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  45. These are real beauties Bob. I have never seen these other than in photos. Nice capture.
    Dianne :)

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