Last weekend we went to Neary Lagoon in Santa Cruz to see if we could find some Wood Ducks. We did find a few, along with some other birds.
Neary Lagoon is an easy photo spot for us, but it was very dark and grey that morning, so we had to choose our camera settings with care: fast enough shutter speed to reduce blur, but low enough ISO to reduce noise. Luckily, the birds gave us several chances.