Northern Shoveler

Gallery: AvianPosted January 10, 2017299 views4 comments

Female
Gainesville, Florida
1/7/2017 – 11:25:25 AM (raining earlier, medium to darkly cloudy)
Canon EOS 7D EF400mm f/5.6L USM
1/250 sec; f/7.1; ISO 640
Manual; Spot metering
LR5, PS6, Topaz DeNoise on the background, Topaz Detail on the bird, curves layer added to brighten bird, cropped all around to 62% of original

This is the best image I have of the female, or one of the females, even though she is facing slightly away. I'm mostly posting it because of the male/female question regarding the first Northern Shoveler I posted. I added a post with some links in that one regarding why I think that one is male.

Here's the link to that image: http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=vp&pr=240739&CGISESSID=f0f13f18db0da8a19ca8156568d52b33&u=17378&title_action=

This one I'm sure is female.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 10, 2017 at 11:11 PM

Nice detail and an excellent job on the exposure, Barbara. I think you could crop this a bit closer. The line of vegetation at the top doesn't seem to really add anything to me, though I know it goes with the reflections.

devil

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Charlie VanTassel on January 11, 2017 at 12:03 AM

Nice, Barbara. I think that your original was a non breeding male, just like you called it. cool

Registered on October 18, 2006, 644 Posts, 4801 Comments

Comment posted by Steve Thompson on January 11, 2017 at 9:53 AM

Definitely a female on this one Barbara. Lovely feather pattern on her. I think it may need some slight CW rotation. She seems to be swimming uphill a bit to my eyes. Maybe an optical illusion. I like the included vegetation. Nice work!

Registered on August 7, 2014, 125 Posts, 2319 Comments

Comment posted by David Schoen on January 11, 2017 at 6:43 PM

Yes Barbara, I now agree that the first when you posted was a male, non-breeding. I see so many breeding males in my area that I was quick to think what you had was a female but I didn't really look at the beak that carefully. Even now, and I don't think it's quite yet breeding season, I am seeing breeding plumage on the males in my area. With respect to this image, I think you did a good job on the exposure but I agree with Dennis that you could crop this little tighter.

Registered on November 6, 2006, 1213 Posts, 4587 Comments