While waiting for more snow and colder weather to hit our region so that I can continue searching for Snowy Owls, here is a shot from my files. This is not counting all those Greater Snow Geese pics from this Fall on file, too.

These male mallard ducks seem to be chasing after a lone female in this shot.

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens with 1.4 II extender on tripod @ 1/1000, f5.6, ISO 400, +1 exposure compensation.

It's always difficult getting multiple birds in focus when using zoom lenses. The depth of field is often too shallow to capture all the birds in focus - that is why I'm happy with this shot.

With the ducks in a line, I cropped to my favourite 8 x 16 frame. About 5-6 water droplets removed.

Cheers,

Mike