ML30734571

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

My hearing isn't all that sharp anymore, so I was blessed to be in the right place and ready with my camera when one NOWA popped up on a dead willow branch. I got just one shot before it flew. Our group moved away from this spot after about 5 minutes and were some 100 feet away looking for NOWA in another spot. Working on a hunch that the NOWA might return to the spot where we'd first seen it, I walked back and staked out the dead willow bush and began 'phishing' and BINGO, one popped up on a lower dead willow. I was able to get ONE shot of its back as it flew off the branch. Almost immediately, another NOWA popped up and landed on the taller dead willow where I'd first seen and photographed one some 15 min. before. It sang two or three times for me as I snapped almost a dozen more shots, then began frantically waving to the group down the road to come quickly, but the bird dropped down out of sight a split second before the group arrived. No amount of phishing was able to bring a NOWA back into view. Luck evades me at times, but not this time.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 40D

ISO

800

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/6400 sec

Dimensions

906 pixels x 709 pixels

Original file size

287.88 KB