From deep in the archives: you ever see a wet cat caught in a driving rain? How about a couple of young lions in a driving rain?
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I can't imagine what he's thinking.
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The last several Fall/Winter seasons, I've gone looking for the Mandarin Ducks. These exotic, non-native ducks have taken up at least seasonal residence (I'm not sure if they stay year round) in SoCal. They apparently fly back and forth between several local park areas, so maybe I see them, maybe I don't. This day was a positive. This of course is the showy male, IMHO the most beautiful of creatures, he even has a very smooth elegant walk.
Check him large, he's worth it! For what it's worth, I had trouble with this image. I uploaded it last night and it got zero views. More likely, it should have had a 100 this morning. So I deleted it and reloaded it. Too late to make a support issue of it, since I deleted the evidence, but this is the 2nd time this has happened recently - zero views. The common factor in the 2 different uploads was a new album I created with the first upload. Not sure where I will go from here, just a heads up I guess.
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Yep, he found her, and he looks ready to go. Kid you not, I was not prepared for this. My lens selection was based on her, munching greens in the river. I had no idea he was on his way for a woodsie rendezvous. Any effort to run to the car for a shorter lens was simply out of the question. So mostly someone had to get chopped off. That's the way nature photography goes - big glass never enough, until it's too much. 😉
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More of that challenging lighting, but well it IS a moose, a bull moose in his prime, and he's looking for love.
I posted one of him last year deeper in the bush, very exciting to see the bushes move before he even came into view.
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