Cinnamon toast---

Stunning Al! I wish we had cinnamons on the Illinois River. Spoonies, we have plenty... Pat
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Thanks, Pat. I can still remember the very first cinnamon drake that I shot. It was late in January or 2005 and I was about to go home when a pair of teal came by. Since I don't see red very well, the drake looked very dark, almost black to me and of course the hen I spotted right away. Well, they made a couple of circles and I finally got off a shot at the drake and put it down. I thought it was probably the prettiest duck I had ever seen.
Al
 
Those pictures of the Spoon bills look amazing and so brillaint with the light hitting their wings
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Sure glad you enjoyed those spoonbill pictures. By the way, I can't agree with you more on what you said about Canada. You are a very lucky person to live where you do and recognize what a gift your country is. I have been in all of your provinces and the Yukon Territory.
"Canada,,,More square feet of awesomeness per person then any place on earth"
Al
 
Great pictures!
Cinnamon toast sounds good to me also. Grandma always made the best!
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Sure glad you liked the pictures. By the way, it took me quite a while to figure out why I was so lucky to have cinnamon/sugar toast all the time-----The jam spreads cost too much. Heck, I never knew we were poor because we always had so much to eat and life was good! Almost all my buddies had jeans and shirts just like mine----when holes appeared mom patched them up just like she did my socks. I still can picture her sitting in the living room with one of my socks pulled over a light bulb darning it.
Al
 
Al - Some great his and hers flight shots ! I am struck by some of the differences like eye color and feet, no less, between the drakes and the hens.
sarge
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Hi, Sarge. There are two ways you can tell the difference between a bluewing drake and cinnamon drake when they both have their summer plummage. The first way is by looking at their eyes. The bluewing's eye is brown and the cinnamon drake's eye is red. Secondly, and this one is much harder to recognize, the cinnamon teal's mandible is slightly wider (spoonbill appearance) than the bluewings.
Al
 
the hollywood comment is great, i think it was on one of the old duck commander videos years ago that i first heard that.....also we call them smiling mallards :)


also like the one pic of the duck on the right almost looking upside down inverted flight!!!

awesome pics!
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Thanks so much, Kyle. I love capturing waterfowl when they are whiffling. They seem to have so much fun when they are doing that.

Al
 
Al: Always enjoy your photos. Duck related and otherwise. Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing with us.

Ken
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Well, Ken, that makes me feel good to know you have enjoyed the threads. Thanks so much for the comments.
Al
 
O MY GOSH!.......LOVE EM! Just when I was about to put duck hunting out of my head till next year you show these!
 
Beautiful Birds.. Most certainly a bird i hope one day to hunt..

Your pictures make those smiling mallards look good too... Great Pictures
 
Nice shots...cinnamon teal and shovelors are so pretty....too bad we don't get the cinnamon teal over here all that often. Though somone did get pictures of one down in South FL this year. That was neat
 
O MY GOSH!.......LOVE EM! Just when I was about to put duck hunting out of my head till next year you show these!
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Tom, you know you can't get duck hunting out of your head----impossible! Made me think of this past Sunday afternoon when Bev and I cleaned our two ponds that out in front of her art studio. I had to put on my waders and of course you know what I started to think about----
Glad you liked the shots.
Al
 
Beautiful Birds.. Most certainly a bird i hope one day to hunt..

Your pictures make those smiling mallards look good too... Great Pictures
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Thank you for those comments, Victor. I sure hope that some day you will be successful on a cinnie hunt. Got a kick out of "smiling mallards".
Al
 
Nice shots...cinnamon teal and shovelors are so pretty....too bad we don't get the cinnamon teal over here all that often. Though somone did get pictures of one down in South FL this year. That was neat
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Glad you liked them, Dani. Funny how you would like to see more of the cinnamon teal. When you take your pictures of the bluewing drakes all ready for the dance, I wished that we had them around here. Bev and I have lived here for 16 years and I have only seen one bluewing drake in the springtime.
Al
 
Great pictures. I fully admit that part of the reason that I hunt is to be able to hold a bird in hand and admire it before I eat it. A cinnamon teal is one that us East Coast people can only dream about seeing one day. There was a rumor one fall of one flying around one the Delaware river estuary creeks for about a month, but I think it was just a rumor to keep us all looking in the sky for something new and different. Shovelers are also a neat duck, and occasionally we will get a couple in the season, but I have hunted in places that they are very common, and they are one fun duck to watch fly. They always seem to me to be very determined to get somewhere. I'm not sure if they know exactly where that is, but who cares? I know that many say they eat too much animal life to be good eating, but I had always found them to be about the same as most other fowl on the table.
 
Well, Greg, I can sympathize with you regarding wanting to hold one of those birds. I have to admit that I do look forward to the last two weeks of January, just hoping that I might see some cinnamon teal. Their plummage is spectacular.
Al

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