CLOUDY DAY DUCKS

SELF | Jan 11,2009 | swampsniper

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Cold weather front moving in, Sunshine may be scarce for a while. These are Hooded Mergansers, migrating North..

[lawnguy]

Beautiful Hooded Mergansers. One of the really beautiful waterfowl.

The male doesn't flare his crest often, but when they do they are an incredible sight to see

Often share habitat with Wood Ducks, but stay more to the deeper water, while the woodies work the edges a bit more.

This is one of our early Migrants in Kansas.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Nice shots but why do you downsize so much? I know that Powershot of yours will take bigger pictures!

[waterhill]

Stuffed with jalepenos and wrapped in bacon and smoked over mesquite, all waterfowl are excellent table fare.

[PERKY2004]

When I store my photos online, they are automatically resized to "medium." I post photos online in a number of places, and many places have informal and formal size limitations -- so the medium size was a compromise so I didn't get so much flack for having big pictures. (I even got flack on Free Republic until I went to the medium size as the norm.)

[Gabz]

Folks with dial-up connections fo appreciate the smaller photos.

I know it’s selfish, but some of us are still stuck in the darkages because of where we live........

That aside, I love the photos both of you post.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

800X600 at around 200kb is not too big for most web pages. I can make a decent print from that size file. Much smaller and the file becomes useless for printing. If photobucket is resizing your pics you must be uploading huge files to begin with, they don't resize mine.

I was resizing for one forum, 600X480, which meant I had 2 sizes stored in Photobucket, that is just too much trouble, I don't post on that forum any more.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I was on dialup myself, until 6 months ago. 800X600 is not too big for most dialup connections. I worked with image files for 6 years when my connection speed was less than 50 kbps, took a while to upload, but what’s the point in storing files I can’t make 8X10 prints from?

[GladesGuru]

That is actually a meeting of the spiritual healers association - QUACK, QUACK.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

You’ve been in the swamp too long to be saved, LOL, the mud has infiltrated all your gray matter! Mine, too, but I’m used to it now, don’t miss a thing!

[pandoraou812]

I don’t think NJ has ducks like these. They are beautiful.

[Northern Yankee]

Stuffed with jalepenos and wrapped in bacon and smoked over mesquite,...

That could just do the trick. I'm game!

[Allegra]

Beautiful.

I like their heads and tails.

[GladesGuru]

As the Brits say, “That’s just ducky.”

Here’s a pun - from a Bumper sticker:

BEWARE THE QUANTUM DUCK - QUARK! QUARK!

[mmanager]

“Stuffed with jalepenos and wrapped in bacon and smoked over mesquite, all waterfowl are excellent table fare.”

Ah, no, these are fish eating ducks. If you could swallow one of these bad boys down your tougher than me. We call these ducks “practice ducks”.

[lawnguy]

I don’t think NJ has ducks like these. They are beautiful.

I'm not sure if the Hoodies migrate through NJ or not, but even if they don't you have some beautiful ducks in your neck of the woods. If you are near the coast, I woulds assume you have some of the sea ducks that migrate along the coast.

Check them out if you get a chance. I have always wanted to see them in the wild. Eiders and Old Squaw for example.

[dixiechick2000]

Absolutely beautiful ducks, SWAMPSNIPER!

Dang good pics, too. ;o)

[waterhill]

I am aware they eat fish. I always age my game in brine or cheap beer. They are not as bad as you say.

Be careful about wasting game. Most wildlife officials don’t look kindly on that.