Wood Duck

Wood Duck swimming among water plants
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve Marsh Boardwalk, Fort Worth, TX, October 23, 2021
Canon EOS 5DS R with Tamron 150-600 mm lens; 600 mm; ISO-200; f/6.3; 1/500 sec.

This page is for the Wood Duck (Aix sponsa). My first photographic evidence of the Wood Duck was on October 23, 2021 at the Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX. This has been one of my favorite species of ducks as I really like all the vibrant colors of the drake. The best photograph I have taken of the Wood Duck to date (above) is the October 23, 2021 photograph at Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, but I also really like the misty silhouette of a Wood Duck that I took the following week.

The following photograph is the best representative image from a different date and location than my species representative example.

Wood Duck swimming in a mist. Some plants are in the distance.
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve Marsh Boardwalk, Fort Worth, TX, October 30, 2021
Canon EOS 5DS R with Tamron 150-600 mm lens; 600 mm; ISO-400; f/7.1; 1/1600 sec.
Wood Duck on a large rock at the edge of a pond.
Wood Duck, Botanical Gardens, Fort Worth, TX, April 9, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens; 500 mm; ISO-640; f/8; 1/200 sec.
Wood Duck swimming with some other ducks nearby.
Wood Duck, North Holiday Park, Benbrook, TX, May 28, 2022
EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-4000; f/11; 1/2000 sec.
Juvenile female Wood Duck standing on a dead tree just above the water.
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, July 30, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-2000; f/10; 1/500 sec.
Female Wood Duck flying low over the water
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, August 21, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-12,800; f/11; 1/500 sec.
Female Wood Duck flying overhead.
Wood Duck, Red Slough WMA, Idabel, OK, September 12, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-320; f/11; 1/800 sec.
Wood Duck flying overhead.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Red Slough WMA, Idabel, OK, September 13, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-200; f/10; 1/500 sec.
Male Wood Duck swimming in the water with a blurred reflection in the ripples of water it is making as it swims.
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, October 30, 2022
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 700 mm; ISO-1000; f/10; 1/640 sec. +0.3 exposure bias
Wood Duck swimming among some water plants. A few female Blue-winged Teal are in the foreground.
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, September 17, 2023
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 480 mm; ISO-800; f/8; 1/800 sec.
Wood Duck swimming among some water plants. A few female Blue-winged Teal are in the foreground.
Wood Duck, Fort Worth Nature Preserve, Fort Worth, TX, September 17, 2023
Canon EOS R5 with Canon 100-500 mm L-series lens with 1.4x Teleconverter; 480 mm; ISO-800; f/8; 1/800 sec.