First posted on the e-group's sibling site, DPNow.com, and all taken using an E-30 and ZD 300 f/2.8 
My personal challenge to catch some waterfowl coming in to land on the Grand Union canal that flows past our office here in Apsley has not been blessed with, well, any flying waterfowl, so far, but here are some less spectacular images from the canal instead - all taken with a lens equivalent to a 600mm f/2.8 (and all hand-held!):

Never noticed those before...

All dressed-up.

Juvenile swan (still with a grey beak) dribbling.

Moorhen.

Another swan strutting its stuff.

These two were keeping each other company - an oddball couple.

These two were on the far side of the canal, but not too far for a 600mm lens!

A welcome change to the very common Canada geese, a Greylag goose.

Greylag goose on the march!

Another close up of the Greylag.

Feeding time on the towpath!

Greylag scratching.
Now how do I get this lot to fly?
Ian

My personal challenge to catch some waterfowl coming in to land on the Grand Union canal that flows past our office here in Apsley has not been blessed with, well, any flying waterfowl, so far, but here are some less spectacular images from the canal instead - all taken with a lens equivalent to a 600mm f/2.8 (and all hand-held!):

Never noticed those before...

All dressed-up.

Juvenile swan (still with a grey beak) dribbling.

Moorhen.

Another swan strutting its stuff.

These two were keeping each other company - an oddball couple.

These two were on the far side of the canal, but not too far for a 600mm lens!

A welcome change to the very common Canada geese, a Greylag goose.

Greylag goose on the march!

Another close up of the Greylag.

Feeding time on the towpath!

Greylag scratching.
Now how do I get this lot to fly?
Ian
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