Thou Shalt Not Shoot The Ducks At City Park

…said my photography professor, Gary, who is the most warmly authoritative person I’ve met yet. It was forbidden to photograph something so goddarn commonplace, and I am a rule-follower but I am also a birder, so, a decade later, here we are…

From top to bottom, left to right (duh): male wood duck; lady wood duck; wood duck date; solo post-date lady wood duck; regular-ass Canada goose, decently composed; precious American widgeon in a sea of big-ass mallards; wigeon; wigeon again; what I think is a leucistic mallard, correct me if I’m wrong, or you know what, don’t; wigeon; boy wigeon.