We saw quite a few birds like the one in this picture. They were NOT too shy and let us get fairly close before flying or running away. Still, the zoom was very helpful. :-) I got several nice pictures of them, but this one seemed to me to be the best.
I think that this is the only bird of this species that we saw. I saw it fly over and perch in a tree, and, luckily, my camera was all ready to go, on maximum zoom! I snapped 2 great pictures of it, but I think this one is just slightly better than the other. Isn't this a beautiful bird!
This isn't the most common duck that we saw, but we still did see many of them. I thought that this picture came out exceptionally well.
This bird was standing quite a long way from us, on the other side of the water. Nevertheless, I managed to get this nice shot of both the bird and its reflection, again thanks to the great zoom!
I actually don't know if this bird was about to land or had just taken off. It was just a lucky shot!
Isn't this little guy cute! He's actually about the size of a small cat, but he's really a rodent, called a "coypu". They are originally from South America, where they are valued for their fur. For this reason, they were brought here many years ago. However, because of the warm climate, they don't actually grow that great fur here, so the hopes of the importers were dashed.
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