Underwater Buffleheads

A bufflehead duck, white feathers glowing in the gloomy lagoon light, dives in search of food beneath the surface.

They’re extremely shy birds, so they’re difficult to photograph normally without extremely long focal length lenses.  Underwater remote cameras come into their element in a situation like this, as they unobtrusively monitor the daily life under the surface.  Earlier, a northern pike could be seen hovering directly underneath the camera, only its face visible in the extreme periphery of the lens.

This bufflehead came back three times, repeating the same diving pattern over and over again.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 4th, 2011 at 5:52 pm. It is filed under Birds, Bufflehead Ducks, Lagoon Report XX, Lagoon Reports, Remotes, Technical, Underwater, Wildlife and tagged with DigiSnap 2800, FishEYE I, Nikon Coolpix 990, Nikon FC-E8. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.