When something goes wrong in nature.

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Back at North Farms Reservoir, after the Swan landed it took a good 15 minutes for it to recover from this landing. Thank you for stopping by.
Peter

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Z8, 180-600mm & 1.4ext, f9, 840mm, -.7EV, 1/1600, ISO 3200 and cropped around 50% in DXO PhotoLab 8.

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Beautiful landing sequence, Peter. Did it hit one of those stubs sticking up? Excellent job on catching and processing this.

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Hi Dennis
The Swan didn’t hit any of the stubs. I think there was something really wrong with this bird. You can see the C curve in the neck and the break line in its’ feather at the bace of the neck. None of the other Swans show this problem and this is what a healthy Swan looked like.
Thank you for the comments.
Peter

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You’ve captured some wonderful landing poses here. Great poses on all the images.

I hope the swan is OK.

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Nice series, Peter. The first image made me think the swan was water skiing.

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Hi Glenys & Allen
The Swan look completely undone, it took a long time to get its’ head back up. It’s not look good for the Swan complete recovery.
Thank you for the comments.
Peter