ML128837581
Contributor
Michael J Good Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Cabo Corrientes Cuban Black Hawk Dec 3 2014 Day 3
Pinar del Río, Cuba
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Observation details
Coming back to Maria la Gorda Hotel someone in the bus yelled out that there was a Cuban Black Hawk on the side of the road.. Since we had not focused on one yet we stopped the bus, everyone got out and we were treated to a rare feeding event for this species. The Black Hawk was roosting in an Uva tree as we set up our scopes and cameras. Suddenly it dove to the beach catching a Crab. It proceeded to jump several times into the air piercing the crab with it's sharp talons. It then began to eat the crab in front of the whole group showing us why it was called the Cuban Crab Hawk. After consuming part of the crab it flew off to a nearby tree to finish it dinner.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3100
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 710 pixels x 634 pixels
- Original file size
- 336.41 KB