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I was caching yesterday and on the way back to my car I decided to take a pic of the nearby creek. As I stepped off the trail, I accidentally stumbled upon a nesting duck. The duck scared the beejeebers outta me :blink: Anyway, he left behind an even better pic to post in my log.

 

Duck eggs!

 

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That's so cool. I've never seen duck eggs in the wild.

 

That reminds me - when I was younger, we lived for a while at a place that had a pond. We had a couple White Pekin ducks for eggs (sigh, I miss duck eggs). They bred with wild Mallards that came in to enjoy our pond. We had a bunch of duck mutts running around after that. They were quite attached to us, more so than the White Pekins, probably because they were handled by us right out of the eggs.

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The most interesting picture I might have taken was when my daughter and I rounded a bend in the trail and there were two rattlesnakes, staring at each other and trying to see which one would be the tallest. It might have been the only time I have been hiking or caching without some kind of camera. But Moose (as we were on the way to an earthcache) or Tule Elk (a locationless cache for me back in the day) are always photogenic.

 

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Eagle having salmon for lunch.

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Bufflehead.

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Two Pileated Woodpeckers.

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A Hairy Woodpecker. He kept trying to hide behind the tree.

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A quick snapshot of some swans flying over.

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This was a great encounter! It met this marmot on the way to the cache GC1ZQY2 - Schwarzenberghütte.

I didn't find the cache, but it was a great walk about 10 km through a stunning mountain area.

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I have a few others on my profile, and more picture on my photography page. It seems like whenever I run into a deer or something more interesting than a bird my camera is away, and in my bag, I have no time to get it before the creature runs away. :(

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Found these lounging seals while boating early in the morning on the puget sound. I like the lighting, because the town had been completely obscured by grey fog before taking this picture. The sun is casting a warm color on the buoy, and just starting to burn off the fog, leaving the city almost colorless.

 

Puget Sound

 

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A set of photos I took of very friendly squirrels at a local park.

 

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Was he FTF? And please don't tell me he left acorns in the cache!

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Took this photo near http://coord.info/GC2AQKR. Maybe (i`m with the last 10) it will become picture of the year in Holland. You have to like the page to see it.Categorie Natuur (nature) and click and click Stem (vote). When it says gestemd you voted. http://zoover.pgtb.me/Nwlp0S/gqtNh?w=26527017&e=64568709 ...

Wonderful picture! I tried your link to the zoover site but it says "Page not found". So I can't vote.

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Took this photo near http://coord.info/GC2AQKR. Maybe (i`m with the last 10) it will become picture of the year in Holland. You have to like the page to see it.Categorie Natuur (nature) and click and click Stem (vote). When it says gestemd you voted. http://zoover.pgtb.me/Nwlp0S/gqtNh?w=26527017&e=64568709 ...

Wonderful picture! I tried your link to the zoover site but it says "Page not found". So I can't vote.

 

Thank you contest is over, and we won !! still can`t believe it

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