I have not taken an image of a bird or animal in at least six months. When I heard about this local Mandarin duck my interest was peaked but candidly I was quite hesitant to photograph it. Obviously not a wild bird and everyone with an iphone from hear to Sunday has photographed it. Today I had sometime this afternoon and decided what the heck, I'll go find it and take some shots. Well, I found the people first which led to the duck. It is clearly now habituated as unfortunately it is being fed bread and likely other not so suitable stuff from the human hand. Interestingly, it is near impossible to get at eye level unless you want to put waders on and go into the creek (I actually thought about doing that as I have waders in my trunk). Any who, I did manage to get fairly close to eye level on this shot. The image is also fairly well processed in LR and PS, but I like the end result. The Philadelphia celebrity duck!

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON D800E
Exposure:	0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture:	f/4.0
ISO Speed:	1800
Focal Length:	500 mm
Lens:	500.0 mm f/4.0