Saturday, June 18, 2011

Motorboating merganserlings

RACING MERGANSERLINGS, GREEN, MICHIGAN, JUNE 17, 2011

Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300 at 300mm
1/800 f10
ISO 1600

An infrequent but always amusing sight off our beach at Lake Superior is a clutch of very young merganserlings racing each other, wildly churning their webbed feet like pint-sized Evinrudes, down the beach when the water is calm. The one in the lead triumphantly grips a wiggling prize in his beak, either a minnow or a tadpole.

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