Any Day Now

[Rob MacKillop]

2. Mum with the bairns:




3. Dad taking a break:




4. Dad working, getting straw for the nest:




5. some weird stuff:





DP3Q.​

 

[Brian Moore]

You did not call them ducks; very wise Rob. You seem so close to them but I imagine that is an illusion created by the telephoto effect of the DP3Q's relatively long lens? Whatever,...nice water fowl shots Rob.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I was about ten feet away, behind a wooden rail - very close in fact. They completely ignored me, and were focussed on shoring-up the nest. I'll try to get back over the next few days. Let's hope the fox I've seen around here doesn't get to them.

 

[Ian Grant]

Rob, I feel the tonality is way off what it should be, even allowing for personal tastes.

I have to be honest,

Ian

 

[Rob MacKillop]

And I appreciate it, even though I'm happy to keep them as they are. YMMV.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Black water like syrup rob. I like the eggs and the stretched out neck the bestest. Like brian I thought they may be ducks but this is a nice goose.
I do beleive it would be a brave fox who attacked such a creature as this but maybe there are brave foxes out there or desperate ones. Lets hope this swan is ok and hatches two ugly ducklings.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

O boy, ignored againeven though I'd say that you did well with Mr and Mrs Swan and the stretched out one is my favourite albeit a little dark.

 

[Pete Askew]

Another example of ducks losing out!

Love that first shot and the tonality in general - I find it shifts it away from what could have been an OK set of wildlife shots to something more. Nice.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

That's what I was aiming to do, Pete. Thanks for noticing.