Ring necked Duck morning dunking in slomo

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It is ugly duck season back in SoCal, but I wouldn't really call this gentlemen ugly.
The local ponds are starting to fill with the winter duck residents, which offers up a great morning excuse to sit on the edge of a pond for a few hours and enjoy a duck's life passing by. In this video, I was lucky enough to have one of the male Ring-necked ducks decide to perform his morning bath off on his own allowing me to isolate him while he was doing his splishy-splashy morning ritual.
Using my R5 for slow motion, I was pleased no other pond-dwellers decided to enter the frame while videoing as the focusing settings I use tend to lock onto whatever is closest and was even more pleased that when he decided to do his wing flapping at the end it was perpendicular to me for the best view!