Female Lesser Scaup diving for food under Lily pads
I was happy to find this new migrant at Beaver Lake :) It was the first scaup of the season and it just popped out from under the water to my delight! Trying to differentiate the Greater and Lesser Scaup is not easy, but I'm pretty sure this is a Lesser Scaup based on the little black "nail" on the tip of its bill.
This video captures the scaup diving into the Beaver Lake water and foraging under the Lily pads for something to eat :) The water is not very deep, so you can see the water displacement kicked up from the scaup's webbed feet. This allows me to track it and hopefully capture it coming out of the water :) I wish I could capture it underwater!
This video was captured on November 25th 2017 at Beaver Lake, in Vancouver's Stanley Park located in British Columbia, Canada.
Thanks for watching!
How funny she dived under the water! Honestly, I've never seen a duck dive.
In my city ducks live near lakes. They are accustomed to people and are not afraid at all.
And the rest, wild, live in the city, and very shy.
Gorgeous photos @stanleyparker I Love the way you include interesting videos to enhance your blogs.
Thanks @trudeehunter! All of my content is video, so I try to find still frames from those videos to use as photos. It's not always an easy task though :( especially if there is a lot of motion in the video, which is often the case. Motion blur is not an issue in video because it all blends together at 30 frames per second, but finding that nice clear crisp frame amongst the hundreds of frames is proving to be a challenge :)
Well, I think you do a great job @stanleyparker and I look forward to seeing more of your work.
It is very calming watching these videos you post. I look forward to them each day... and you even know the names of the birds!
Thanks @keithboone :) I really appreciate anyone that takes the time to view my videos and comment/upvote.
It's always a pleasure finding a new bird! The latest has been a Gadwall couple; and I spotted a Eurasian Widgeon the other day too :)
I often use the "dive time" to sneak up on them :) I have to be careful not to scare the other ducks, because the second a diving duck surfaces, they look to how the other ducks are behaving and if they're all leaving in one direction, off goes the diving duck :) Not stupid these creatures! "Social proof" ;)