I took quite a few pictures, I'll post them when I get them back from the developer.
After a few days I got to where I could tell a lot of the ducks on the wing which was fun.
Those rosy bills sure make a racket when they fly along, all that grunting and squalling. Almost like an old hen mallard fussing at her brood.
They have 13 species of duck in that area and I managed to shoot nine of them. Amongst our party we got 11 of the 13 including a crossbreed rosy bill pochard / yellow billed pintail which was going to the museum up in BA.
What was really unusual to me was that you couldn't tell drake from hen in some of the species. I remember the first morning, I had quite a few southern widgeon in the bag and figured they were all drakes. When I asked the guide he said no, that the hens were just slightly smaller. Both the pintails and some of the teal were like that too.
Destry
