Surf Scoter: York County, Maine, USA, November 2026 — The second shot here provides a nice comparison of a male Surf Scoter and a preening male Black Scoter. There was only one male Surf Scoter (that I saw) among the hundreds of male and female Black Scoters off the cliff path when we visited. The top photo, just for fun, is a full-frame shot so you can see how far away these birds were, taken at 600mm equivalent (APS-C mode) with the Sony FE 100-400 f5.6-f8 OSS zoom on the Sony a7CR (so already a crop to 26mp). The second photo is a crop down to less than a megapixel, enlarged and enhanced in Topaz for the iPad and then processed in Photomator. It will not win any awards, but it is the best I could do at that distance with the camera I had in hand. 🙂 It is still only 2mp even after enlarging it in Topaz. My birds and wildlife mode.