A few photos from a walk around the neighborhood. I was using my 100-400mm lens with a 1.4x extender, which gives an equivalent of 1120mm. That size of lens on a full frame camera would be huge and heavy, but with micro four thirds it's quite manageable. But it's still a lot of telephoto to hold steady, even with good image stabilization. I didn't want to carry a tripod around so I compromised with a monopod.
I was looking for the Harlequin ducks, but this day it was mostly American Wigeons.
As usual with birds, the males are more colorful than the females.
There were some Common Mergansers but they were farther away and into the sun.
This Bufflehead was also a little too far away and into the sun. At first I thought this was a Hooded Merganser. Or it could have been a Common Goldeneye. There are too many black and white ducks around!
And there were a few of the other usual birds around - gulls, robins, and sparrows. In Saskatoon the robins are a sign of spring, but they're here year round.
This sparrow was singing away loudly, half hidden in a bush beside a building.
Of course, I couldn't resist a few reflection photographs.
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