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Surf Scoter
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Surf Scoter

Birders are often forced to appreciate this bizarrely-beautiful species from a distance, the diving seaducks preferring ocean and bays to rivers and lakes, but I was able to score this super-close view by approaching this male in my inflatable kayak. This is one of the most difficult exposures with the nearly-pure blacks and whites, so I was stoked to keep the detail on both ends of the spectrum. I had't appreciated the tiny barbs on the beak before this result. Gotta love that funky white eye, too!

San Mateo County, California, 2/27/20
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III on EOS 1DX Mark II
1/1600 at f/5.6, ISO 1000

  • Western Sandpiper
  • Black-chinned Sparrow
  • Willet (Western)
  • Heermann's Gull
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Surfbird
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Dunlin
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Phainopepla
  • Surf Scoter
  • Merlin - female
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Wood Duck
  • Peregrine Falcon (male)
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Cactus Wren
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
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