Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on December 10, 2024, 02:52:04 PM
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Quite the fog this morning. To truly appreciate fog I must head for open space. No, not outer space, but an open expanse where nothing can penetrate the fog so that I can be enveloped and free of distraction, as long as I don't look down. Naturally, I headed for the lakefront so that the fog would be truly shroud-worthy. There were boulders near the water that were so black that they could not be over-looked unless you crawl right on top of them and then they can be overlooked, but I wanted to get closer the the water level. It was cool watching a duck come out of the mist. There were very few ducks and that surprised me. I always thought that ducks and fog go together like ham and cheese, but that may have changed, besides I don't eat meat or dairy anymore, so that's changed, so why not ducks and fog. I saw a single Longtail in search of its tail having a adventure in the fog, but ducks don't tell their tales, but I did hear a loud quack in the mist, accompanied by an echo, but that may have been my imagination, yet I'm quite certain the Longtail was real. What do you think?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-nD2DjNC/0/LBhQDd2tthf4njCm4qgnWLVNZ4bMWFbqCrBBLbHdF/XL/Longtail%2CF%2Cfog%2C2%2Ccropped-XL.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-nD2DjNC/A)
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Isn't that a female, so it would never "find" its long tail?
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Yes, it could be a female, or a juvenile male, but either way I'm not going to tell that duck the potentially devastating news. If it's a female then it will never realize a long tail as accoutrement, but as consolation for remaining short-tailed it won't need to master the art of yodelling. Besides, didn't someone of note once say that girls have more fun.