Thousands of ducks

Up in the northern half of a large, shallow wet area are thousands of ducks at this time of year.  They gather there - I believe - because the hunters are elsewhere in the wetlands and this is a safe place for them.  Plus there is plenty of food.

So you'll see a lot of different kinds of ducks plus herons and other water birds on occasion.  And, for a photographer, the question is how do you show this multitude?  Unlike shooting cranes at Bosque, the ducks don't fly up in squadrons.  So I started small, with this shot.


Then expanded our view to this one.