Female wood duck

Cute little thing, not a clue what its called Nice feather detail

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Cliff.




My Flickr link
Nikon D750, D7000 , Nikkor 80-400, 70-300 and 18-200 lenses

It Is a female Manderin duck.
Amin, are you using the Pentax DA100mm?

Richard

Yes, all the 100mm shots you see on the gallery were with the Pentax DFA 100mm f/2.8 Macro

And thanks for the help in cataloguing them. I really appreciate that. If its not asking too much I would really appreciate help in naming the wildlife shots I manage to upload. My english is limited as you know, worse even for aspects such as wildlife.
So all the help is greatly appreciated. I will edit this one now and put up the name for it. Will go and update on my personal webalbum and flickr site too. Looks much better with the catalogued name

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Amin Photo Gallery

Looks too colourful for a female Mandarin to me, would say it's a female Wood Duck myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_ducks.JPG

Dan

Edit: Just seen that you've got a pic of a male Wood Duck uploaded.

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K-3, a macro lens and a DA*300mm...

Well spotted Dan

Thanks a lot. Just updated the link and the name

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Amin Photo Gallery

Well you are right Dan, I should know that, we get them in the forest at the back and sometimes the ducklings go the wrong way and end up on the road, then everybody has to round them up and get them back on the route to the pond about 500 yards away. Mother duck making loads of noise to call them.

Great photo, showing Aix sponsa - The wood duck or better known as the Caronlina. Its a femaile but showing at least two previous pairings from another sub-species, as the white eye-liner gives it away. Hence why its a great picture...shows folk detail of femail to male, older to younger etc.

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big cat man