ML170006891
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I was very surprised to find these birds at this location at this date. Pictures were taken at about a 100 yards, and the birds were closer (maybe 50 yards) when first spotted. They walked out in the mud/water from the nearest point to my position (they were behind 18 inch tall growing rice) and while I fumbled with my camera they flushed from the field, and flew around making several passes at the wet area before landing towards the opposite end of the wet area. The wet area was a rectangular spot about 10 yards wide and 50 or 60 yards long in a growing rice field that had not been planted due to some unknown (probably planter operator error) reason. All the birds exhibited drab non-breeding plumage, had dark but not black bills, and vivid blue upper wing coverts evident in flight.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX530 HS
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 215 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/200 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.29 MB