Happy first day of July! I was able to capture a semi decent image of a beautiful male Wood Duck while I was in Minnesota. It was out on one of the small ponds by the barn when I was headed out to dinner one evening. I wish I had been closer and that the light had been better but will take what I can get. 😁 They have such a beautiful coloration/pattern to them.
This is one more image that I was able to get of the Wood Ducks and turtles too. I hope to see these again sometime at a different time of year when the male is in it's beautiful plumage. It was cool to see them at all though. Another off my checklist. 😀
I think I finally saw and captured a Wood Duck couple. The male is not as handsomely colored as what I have seen in photos but the female definitely has the eye spot. I saw these on one of the many ponds around the area I was staying in Minnesota.
I captured this image while on a bike ride last weekend. I think it is my first Wood Duck capture! The light wasn't that great this day and was overhead and harsh so created a shadow on it's face but I am pretty sure, by comparing the markings, that the one on the right is a Wood Duck. Not sure what the one on the left is but it doesn't seem to match what a female looks like.
