January 6, 200917 yr Took this in my backyard a few days ago. There's normally about 5-6 ducks that hang around. I have no idea why they all invited their friends to come over.
January 6, 200917 yr Took this in my backyard a few days ago. There's normally about 5-6 ducks that hang around. I have no idea why they all invited their friends to come over.Looks like a goose gang moved in on their territory. Any fish in that pond?
January 7, 200917 yr Mrs Coldweather took some of these with a Nikon D100 and some with a D300. She has a bunch of lens. She typically uses her 80-200 F2.8 lens or her 24-105 F2.8 lens. How do you like the 80-200? It sounds like a great lens, but I always fear 200 won't be enough for shooting football and soccer games.
January 7, 200917 yr Looks like a goose gang moved in on their territory. Any fish in that pond? Big time. We've caught some really nice-sized catfish and bass. Also some big blue gill. I put some grass carp in there a few years back to help with the scum/moss and it's hard to believe how big they are now. They actually will come out of the water a bit and eat grass/weeds off the bank. They've got to be over 2' long. We probably need to start pulling some of the bigger fish out because it's not all that big of a pond (1/4 acre) and I'm not sure it can sustain too many large fish. Nice pond to have though, as it attracts deer, turkeys, coyote, fox, geese, ducks, etc.. down to it. Not as many frogs as there used to be, though - my son has gigged out quite a few of them!
January 7, 200917 yr How do you like the 80-200? It sounds like a great lens, but I always fear 200 won't be enough for shooting football and soccer games. She shoots both sports with it all the time with it. These could still be cropped. Andre in the middle of the field Arliss on the near side David on the far side David on the hash
January 7, 200917 yr Big time. We've caught some really nice-sized catfish and bass. Also some big blue gill. I put some grass carp in there a few years back to help with the scum/moss and it's hard to believe how big they are now. They actually will come out of the water a bit and eat grass/weeds off the bank. They've got to be over 2' long. We probably need to start pulling some of the bigger fish out because it's not all that big of a pond (1/4 acre) and I'm not sure it can sustain too many large fish. Nice pond to have though, as it attracts deer, turkeys, coyote, fox, geese, ducks, etc.. down to it. Not as many frogs as there used to be, though - my son has gigged out quite a few of them!Wow, must be nice to have something like that right at your doorstep! If you need someone to help thin out the herd, I have a very effective "fish retrieval device."
January 7, 200917 yr How do you like the 80-200? It sounds like a great lens, but I always fear 200 won't be enough for shooting football and soccer games. Unless you shell out the bucks for a full frame camera you are looking at a 1.6 magnification due to the sensor size so the 70-200 becomes a 112 to 320. With quality that is coming out of the cameras you can crop and still have a pretty fantastic picture.
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