A bird that had been conspicuously absent from my list was the Chestnut Teal. Or so I thought. I recently purchased Apple’s Aperture application and imported in all of my digital photographs (nearly 7,300 photographs from the Canon 350D alone). I was cycling through the old photos and something caught my eye. A Chestnut Teal. Full plumage male no less. Refer to the photograph below…
The worst bit is I remember the day I took the photograph clearly, I was looking for Hoary-headed Grebes at a lake in Joondalup and thought this particular bird was a manky farm duck. So the Chestnut Teal becomes bird number 266 on my list.
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| Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea, Joondalup, WA, Australia). Image has been cropped and the white balance adjusted. |
Good work!! :|. Any Freckled Duck photos popped up yet? 😛
More seriously, on the full photo with both birds (not shown here), I reckon you've got a female Chestnut too
(and finally beat that Alan chap to comment…….)
Extra points if you read the post title in the voice of the comic book guy from the Simpsons….
No Freckled Duck pictures as yet!