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Title: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on January 08, 2011, 04:46:09 PM
Back on the main lake this afternoon.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on January 09, 2011, 10:52:53 AM
Still present this morning.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: sidwemn on January 09, 2011, 06:13:39 PM
My best effort from this morning

Martyn
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: StewH on January 09, 2011, 07:09:37 PM
Yet another shot...
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: AKinghorn on January 10, 2011, 11:52:08 PM
Some video and some images I took of the bird on Sunday:

http://andrewkinghorn.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-going-to-ring-its-neck-now.html

Images aren't much but the video is ok :)
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on January 12, 2011, 01:53:57 PM
Still present this morning and still keeping it's distance from the bankside as the ice slowly retreats.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: Ray. Scott on January 14, 2011, 09:23:32 AM
A few shots, taken on 13th Jan, It came quite close to the bankside giving excellent views. Shame about the dull weather.
It didn't get any closer after you left Ian.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on January 14, 2011, 01:42:58 PM
Still present this morning. Better light today but it remained much more distant. The ice free area was double the size of yesterday. The lake is now 80% ice free.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on January 18, 2011, 08:02:23 PM
Still present this morning. Nice to see it in some sunshine again but still remaining distant from the viewing areas for the most part.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on January 21, 2011, 02:20:16 PM
Giving very close views for the first time this morning down to 5-6m at times as it fed just below the bank side with the other ducks.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: Ray. Scott on January 22, 2011, 01:13:09 PM
Taken yesterday, as Ian mentioned, It was coming very close to the bank side.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: Ray. Scott on January 22, 2011, 01:14:44 PM
A few action shots from yesterday also some video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnwpQzJOoJM

Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: alan crossley on January 27, 2011, 08:15:23 PM
cracking pictures Ray also found your short video excellent. How did you take your video, did you use a DSLR with video? If so what set did you use and settings?
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: Ray. Scott on January 27, 2011, 09:35:56 PM
Cheers Alan,
I used the 7D camera with Canon 500 F4 + 1.4 converter and just the standard video settings, It's only the 3rd time I've used the video on the 7D and was quite pleased with the results. It only dawned on me to use the video as I reckoned 500 stills was plenty  ;D.
I suppose, as I'm used to taking stills, I just never normally think of flicking the camera into video mode, maybe I'm just terrified that I might miss the crucial still shot.
Having said that, and although the video function Is handy, I think If I was intending to do much video work, I would use a dedicated cam/video recorder.
Horses for courses so to speak.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on February 01, 2011, 10:27:46 PM
Still present this morning.
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: Renton Charman on February 02, 2011, 04:20:47 PM
Still present today as well plus a Tufted Duck!
Title: Re: Ring-necked Duck - Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park
Post by: IanF on February 14, 2011, 06:28:45 PM
Still there this morning.
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