This is another one of my favourite images. A good deal of pre-work and observation went into this shot. I'd been watching and photographing several male mergansers on Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam for several weeks. Mergansers are from the "ducks that dive" (do prolonged dives to search for food) and are carnivores in that their diet is fish and other small water creatures, as are all mergansers; Hooded, Common and Red-breasted. Of the latter I never did get a good photo (I have good shots of both the female and male Hooded Merganser however). Eventually I recognized patterns to their "fishing" and could get myself into good position to get shots like the above. This one is the best of a series on Common Merganser feeding behaviour. This is at the precise moment that this duck was emerging from its dive with a fresh caught fish.
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