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barnegat lighthouse state park, brant, canada geese, colonial lake, great black-backed gull, long-tailed duck, photography, postaday, ring-billed gull
Male Long-tailed Duck.
Male Long-tailed Duck.
Male Long-tailed Duck.
Great Black-backed Gull.
Brants.
Canada Geese.
Ring-billed Gull.
Ring-billed Gull.
neihtn 
Super images, the ring billed gull in flight is a stunner! 🙂
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Thank you Julie!
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Beautiful pictures to enjoy on a Sunday – and any day!
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Thank you Helen!
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I enjoyed all your winter bird photos, Hien, but oh my goodness, what a great day you had finding the long-tailed duck. Now that’s a bird I have never seen, and what a treat it would be. I guess his elegant tail was hiding underwater. Great find for you, how fun.
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Thank you Jet! Long-tailed Ducks come to the New Jersey shore every year in the winter. They do tend to stay a good distance from the water, especially when they see people.
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Birds of winter shores….bright and crisp and always moving. Well done!
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Thank you Lynn!
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Another nice set, that Long-tailed Duck is a nice catch, not one you can see just anywhere.
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Thank you very much, John!
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Awesome gallery of shots, Hien, I especially loved looking at the Long-tailed Duck. I’ve only captured them in flight on one occasion, I’d love to see them up close like this, they are beautiful!
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Thank you Donna! Those Long-tailed Ducks were far out on the water and I had to crop the raw images a lot to get the photos above.
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Such beautiful contrasting colors! ❤️
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Thank you Irene!
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Some lovely and dynamic photos. The second last one is beautifully captured.
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Thank you! Glad you like them.
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I particularly like the flying Canada geese. My local park in South Wales sometimes has Canada geese but I don’t think they have flown from Canada (although I read that some do fly across the Atlantic which is incredible).
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I have been seeing Canada Geese flying in all directions every day. I think the cold snap we had sent them looking for warmer spots.
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Is the polar vortex on its way towards you? The drop in temperature in the mid-West (I hope I have called it the right name) look absolutely brutal. I should think the geese would definitely leave if that was the case!
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This year’s polar vortex is the worst on record. We were not hit too badly compared to the Midwest and did not get more than 1 in of snow. It is leaving us today, and warmer temperatures in the 40°F are returning tomorrow.
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Thank Goodness, those poor people and animals in the midwest!
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Such handsome ducks!
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Thank you Eliza!
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Wow Hien, those duck shots are amazing. So difficult with such bold contrasting colors. Great job!
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Thank you Tina! Those ducks were a good distance away for my lens. Lots of cropping resulted in those photos that you see.
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Excellent series.
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Thank you Rabirius!
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Long-tailed duck preening in that frigid water! Guess they don’t feel it like we do. Such beautiful, clear photos.
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It seems like ducks, and birds, don’t feel the cold like we do. They can stand on ice and go to sleep!
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