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Something clever here.
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Love good photos of waterfowl in breeding plumage. Find me a couple of pintails!
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Man, those are nice pictures! Love the pictures this time of year with ice... To photograph waterfowl a few years ago, I made a floating blind from a truck inner tube and a bedsheet. Not my photo, but the one I made was similar to this -- crude, but it still worked very well!) Puddling around like this in marsh was a very relaxing way to spend a morning. John
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Wow, that's really cool.
It beats the heck out of my failed sneak attempt on a pair of sand hill cranes yesterday.
Something clever here.
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Wow, that's really cool.
It beats the heck out of my failed sneak attempt on a pair of sand hill cranes yesterday.
Need a low crawl refresher?
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I really wasn't feelin it... the low crawl.
lol.
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Hi again Dave I found a picture of a more deluxe "swan blind" but my crude version worked very well and I would not bother with more. Waterfowl are not that bright... big, white and with a neck sticking up is likely "good enough". For my "swan blind", I made a sling seat from a car's shoulder seat belt and pop-riveted the ends around the inner tube. My initial thought was that I could use the buckle to do a fast exit if I capsized in wind or waves. I never did though -- my mass was mostly below the waterline since I made the seat sling long -- and therefore I sat very low (as low at my first picture, and much lower than the one in this current post): I wish I had some pictures of my blind, but this was pre-digital. I later made a another floating blind to resemble a muskrat house -- even easier to make (truck inner tube, one seatbelt, chicken wire and cattails). It worked just as well for waterfowl. However, one day I was dozing in the sun and near crapped my waders when a muskrat tried to get inside with me. Glad there are no pictures of that event. John
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A greenhead with 3 curls...nice bird.
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Those are stunning pictures,
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The Merganser shots are spectacular. The lighting on the water really fulfills my image of what comprises a great picture.
Frames and enhances the bird.
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