Siwash Rock Star Trails Missing Clouds
This image is 30 second exposures stacked. Because the clouds are generally brighter than the stars, I had to mask out the clouds in each exposure. There are 100 frame here because my camera stops taking photos at 100 exposures if you just hold the button down.
Siwash Rock Making Star Trails
This is a 100 image, 30 seconds an image time lapse. I was planning on stacking them and lightening them to get star trails but the clouds flying by made that much harder than I anticipated.
Two Mallards In Tight Skirmish
The duck on the right has the duck on the left by the tail. It's close to mating season for Mallards so the males are doing a lot of "positioning".
Mute Swans Looking For Seed
These are highly managed birds. Their wings are clipped (can't fly) and their eggs were addled (damaged so they wouldn't bear young) so they didn't proliferate. When the river otters moved in, they started losing fights and were relocated to a private property further up the lower mainland.
Male Common Merganser
Green head seems common for ducks (Mallards obviously, but also American Widgeon's and wood ducks). In my mind, the female is just as showy as the male.
