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HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2014: Ducks In Pond In Winter

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States 2014
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About this clip

This vintage home movie captures a quiet winter scene at Hidden Lake Colorado. Ducks rest in cold water, some flapping their wings while others move out of frame. Small trees obscure much of the view, with weeds visible at the bottom of the screen. The natural, unscripted moment evokes a sense of calm and seasonal stillness, perfect for nature documentaries, seasonal montages, or nostalgic storytelling.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, winter nature edits, environmental b-roll, and quiet social cuts needing ducks resting on cold water at Hidden Lake Colorado.
Edit role
The short runtime works as a calm cutaway, transition, or texture beat between wider snow scenes and closer winter wildlife details.
Visual details
Ducks sit and drift in bright cold pond water behind dry reeds, cattails, bare saplings, and patches of snow, with pale winter light washing the background and no visible people.

Tags

ducksflappingtheirwings and weeds on the bottomof screensmall trees covers most of the viewducks are sitting in cold waterwhile some move out of the picturepondwinternaturehidden lake colorado C20144kcinematicprob-rollcuteemotion

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
40 MB
Location
Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States
Year filmed
2014
Published
Dec 2014

Still Frames From This Clip

3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

At Hidden Lake Colorado, ducks rest on bright cold pond water behind dry shoreline reeds, cattails, bare saplings, and snow patches, with no visible people.
The opening frame shows the ducks partly obscured by winter brush along the pond edge. (0:00)
At Hidden Lake Colorado, a cluster of ducks sits across the upper pond while dry weeds and thin bare branches fill the lower frame, with no visible people.
This moment emphasizes the layered shoreline foreground between the camera and the ducks. (0:01)
Ducks drift in cold water beyond leafless brush and tan winter reeds.

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