This Wood Duck seems to present a feathered gift to me. Actually, he was in the process of a very long preening session.

I took this shot last week in the company of Daniel Houx. I see that another good friend Dom Cantin, beat me to it to put this bird on his site yesterday. :-)

Canon 50D with 500IS L f4 lens @ 1/800, f7.1, ISO 400 with a monopod and the Jobu Jr 2 gimbal.

Slight crop for composition purposes.

Cheers,

Mike