Just messin' around with a new "used" lens!

Al, I believe some of those snows were here a few days ago. A buddy of mine had a flock of 80 land in the field behind his work the other night but they were gone almost before we could formulate a plan to go after them. Great photos as always!
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Hey Cody, good to hear that you had some in your area. I sure enjoy seeing them around. Once in a blue moon I'll get lucky and shoot one, like I did last year.
I hope you will still have that chance this year, Cody.
Al
 
Pintail Rich!!!!!

Send some of those tux wearing drakes down to South Texas!

Regards,
Kristan
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Hi Kristan. Do pintails know how to read maps? I would try it----They do dress up nicely don't they. I can still remember a guy I was hunting with when a flock of maybe 35 bull springs flew down the Rio Grande corridor just out of shotgun range. I loved watching him hyperventilate and his eyes were like saucers!
Al
 
Neat stuff. Amazing how many pintails are there.
Keep working with that new lens and I think you will get the hang of it. :)

Tim
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Glad you liked that, Tim. A few years ago the federal Fish and Game biologists had a large program involving three distinct areas; Texas, New Mexico and California. They banded the pintails in each of these study groups and also attached satellite receivers to them. What was so wonderful was that I could go to my computer and see where each of the pintails from Bosque del Apache NWR flew on their migration northwards. Some of them made it to the Bering Sea. I loved every moment of being able to do that.
Al
 
I find it interesting that the pintail hens and Drakes tend to migrate separately. Quite often there is a significant time difference.
 
I find it interesting that the pintail hens and Drakes tend to migrate separately. Quite often there is a significant time difference.
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It is quite evident when I run to Bosque del Apache and see all those drakes that come down here when the bluewing/cinnamon teal do. In fact, the adult drake teal normally are always in Mexico before our early teal season opens around the middle of September. When our season opens, we usually shoot only juvenile teal. Then after they migrate south is when the adult hens begin to head south.

Good point, Paul. Now that makes me wonder about other puddle ducks and or sea ducks, which I know nothing about---
Al
 
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