Surprise capture

[Just Plain Curt]

Just thought I'd post a strange picture I found during my examining photos I'd recently taken. Trying out a new to me Sears TLS (with one dark focus screen) and a Hanimex 23 f3.5 M42 lens I just received. Forgive the fact it's pretty badly out of focus and of little real interest except:




General photo of a couple of Mallard ducks and a man made peninsula in the background. Couldn't figure out the blemish on the left side of the photo till I cropped and zoomed the photo a time or two.



Wish I'd had the foresight to have a better lens and cleaner focus on this. Looking closely you'll find that's an approx. 12-18 inch (30-45 cm.) fish in mid leap. Common fish to this bay are Salmon, several species of trout, pike, perch as well as about a dozen others but I sure can't match this to any one species. Would've been a great ooops capture if it were a bit clearer.

[mickeyobe]

Mmmmmmm.
I dunno.
Wouldn't a leaping fish have disturbed the water at its exit point and be shedding some droplets?
I don't think any of our native fish have a wide white band around their body.
I'll bet on a mallard gliding in for a landing with its landing gear still retracted.

Mickey ( Ever the skeptic and once an avid fisherman. )

[kiev4a]

Think you are right Mickey. The water hasn't been disturbed.

[Reiska]

I think, that it could be a Mallard duck in a steep landing run braking hard nose up before touchdown.
What is odd is that the "landing gears" seems to be still up.

[SidW]

Thought it might be a heron in the first picture, but maybe not after seeing the enlargement. More likely something landfng as you suggest.

[Just Plain Curt]

Thought it could've been a bird too but there was a large splash right after I took the shot and I've seen dozens of fish jumping there at all times of the day before. I swim my dog here and then he lies down for a 20 minute drying session so other than skipping rocks I don't have much else to do.

[Randy]

It's an Alien Curt!

[Just Plain Curt]

Yes, guess this one goes in the same category as blurry Loch Ness photos, vague flying saucer shots and the fuzzy Bigfoot pictures. Call me Zapruder and point me at a grassy knoll.