Shot on the second day of Easter.
There were four 'mothers' protecting two little ones. When I first saw them, they were on the opposite of the canal. They hissed to people, chased other birds away and even attacked a big dog. They jumped on top of him with flapping wings and biting where they could. The BIG dog ran off! :)
While I was watching a while they jumped in the water and swam around a couple of minutes. After that they came out on my side.
At first they hissed at me, flapped their wings and gave me angry looks. I did nothing and they got bored of me I guess. So I tried my luck and stepped closer, again the hissing routine. Kneeled down, hiss flap hiss, but they let me stay. They relaxed and started to eat. So I shot a few photos and this is one of the best I think.
Just the night before I read some advice about waiting, looking around etc by Charlotte Lowrie and Peter Burian and MSN's Photo thingie. A lot of helpful articles there and the advice works. :)
Hope you like it.
Here is all four of them btw:
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