A few pics from an afternoon at Lossie. They show what a bird has to go through to hold on to its food. This goosander was being harassed by gulls a crows as it desperately tried to swallow a fish that was not designed to go down a ducks neck! It managed to swallow it eventually.
I was taught a big lesson photographing this one. I had just taken a few landscape shots along the estuary and had set a very slow shutter speed to increase the depth of field - and then the goosander flew in to range. So I quickly swapped lenses and started taking photos of it struggling with the gulls - but I didn't change the shutter speed! There I was thinking I had lots of great action shots - but all I got was blur! I have posted one of the pics at the end, as it shows the mayhem that was going on in the water.
I actually quite like the effect of the blur - so maybe I should say I did it deliberately!
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| Gull fighting with goosander for food |
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| Goosander walks away victorious |
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| And here's the blurred one. The goosander's under water! |
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