Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) - The Fishing Bridge, The Yellowstone River & East Entrance Road (a.k.a. US 14), Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth, Wyoming (44.566967, -110.382739)

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Bufflehead Duck - Round Valley Recreation Area, Lebanon, New Jersey

These guys are hard to get close to, and usually all I get is a shot of their butts as they swim away as fast as they can (which is pretty fast), so I was quite happy to get a shot of this guy's butt in a more relaxed pose. But even so this is still a 50 yard shot, and I had to stay in a blind (e.g. my car) to get it.

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Bufflehead Duck at the Barnegat Municiple Dock, Barnegat, NJ
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Bufflehead Duck - Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Smyrna, Delaware
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This guy was swimming in place against the current as the tide washed in bait fish, and repeatedly dove in the same place relative to where I was sitting on the loop road, so I took the opportunity to record the his diving technique.
Amazingly, 7 frames per second was not nearly enough to capture all the positions of a dive so I used 4 or five different bursts to capture the various aspects of the dive mechanics.

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Female Bufflehead feeding off the jetty rocks - Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
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