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Al Hansen

Al Hansen

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I love springtime-----trees budding, daffodils blooming, new life about to be born and then we have the cinnamon teal doing their courtship flights with the drakes trying the hardest to outdo one another! It was a great time at Bosque del Apache.
I hope you enjoy these shots.
Al

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Yes, I still salivate when I see these birds!

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Thank you, Mr. Drake! Here all of these years I thought cinnamon was only used with Apple Pie!

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Al,
Thanks for letting see those shots. Cinnamons are one of the best looking drakes out there. I saw my first cinnamons in Yellowstone park in the 70's and have always remembered that day. We have them here also after making it back this far north. They are unfortunately gone by season time though.
Do you see many during hunting season? The two trips I've made to Nevada for hunts have proven unproductive teal wise. Though we heard there were some in our area at the time, just never saw any.

Again, thanks.
 
AUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

figures, NOW you display those pictures!!

I just finished a cinn teal decoy for my son's birthday on the 13th!!

LOVE them, I can't wait to show him when I get home. Thanks for posting them, love the close ups.
 
Beautiful Pictures AL. I am anxious to use my newly purchased Cannon to get some shot like that. I swear shooting the camera instead of a shotgun may be equally rewarding.

Bill
 
Al,

Those guys will be showing up here in a few weeks...Mayish time and start nesting on some of the local irrigation ponds....

Come Sept they leave just before waterfowl season opens on the first weekend in Oct...so I get to see em and enjoy them ...seldom get to shoot one...I have always wanted a pair mounted...

Nice photos

Matt
 
Great stuff Al - I've never seen one of these birds in the wild, the colors are something - especially the red eye on the drake. Nice in flight shots with great focus - that is not easy to get !
THANKS -
sarge
 
Kevin,
Sure glad you liked the shots. I see them in the fall when they come through here on the their migration south and will shoot some during the early teal season. The only way you can tell the difference then from the bluewings is by looking at their eyes. The cinnamon's eyes being red with the bluewing's being brown. Sometimes in January I'll get really lucky and shoot one which has already begun its reverse migration and has flown north once again.
Al
 
Eric,
I would love it if you would post the pic of that cinnamon on this thread. Please feel free to do so. What did your son have to say when he saw the photos? Glad you liked the pictures.
Al
 
Thank you for the compliment, Bill. It is beginning to happen to me. Over the course of the last couple of years I have noticed how easy it is to pick up my Canon instead of my cannon when I'm duck hunting. I happen to be extremely fortunate to live where I do. In the mornings I duck hunt and in the afternoons I'll run down to Bosque del Apache and take pictures of ducks and geese. It is only 10 miles from the house. By the way, it IS equally rewarding!
Al
 
I'm sure glad that you liked the shots, Hank. They are quite the bird and to be able to watch them in their courtship flights was just an added bonus. I hope some day you will be able to witness the flight of a cinnamon teal.
Al

By the way, I enjoyed reading that quote you had from Grayson Chesser. He had just scratched the surface! You don't know how it hurts me when I hear of young hunters calling snow geese "flying carp". I have never been able to figure out how someone can shoot something they don't respect. Same goes with the Canada goose. I happen to remember when we didn't see many geese and if you shot one, back in the 1950's, you became a local hero for a time.
 
Jim, I'm glad you liked that shot.
Al

By the way, I sure liked that quote from Jack. He was right on!
 
I'll bet that some of those teal end up coming through this area, Matt. I have found out that they sure are sensitive to the cold! Any signs of it around here and they play Casper the Ghost and are in Mexico. Glad you liked the shots.
Al
 
Glad you liked the pictures, Dick. Last October I got lucky and close enough to a small flock of cinnamons and bluewings. Here are some eye shots.
Al

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This drake cinnamon was stretching out his wing as he swam around. It is truly a "wonder" of nature when you look at a drake cinnamon teal in the fall and then come spring, he dresses up in red and even his beak turns black.

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This shot is of a bluewing.

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