Serendipity is everything. These two mallards were sitting on the pond and nicely reflected in the dark water. I raised my camera, and just before I pressed the shutter, they simultaneously duck dived. ODT Nature photography
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Polar plunge; ODT weather permitting. An opportunity for a polar plunge is part of cruises to the Antarctic, weather permitting, even in a snowstorm. I don't know what more extreme weather would be needed to cancel it. The penguins wonder what all the fuss is about

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A reminder of what I loved about doing fieldwork in the outback; silhouette ODT

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Great Egret (Ardea alba)
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The peaks are now officially named Una Peaks, but were long-known colloquially as Una's Breasts, after a well-endowed Falkland Islands secretary who would have been the last woman seen by British Antarctic Survey expeditioners on their way to Antarctica in the 1950s; ODT pointy

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