ML170086811
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Media notes
Just over the bank and within the National Airport border along the Potomac River side.
Observation details
At around 10:30, I saw 2 HLs flying along the outlying rock pilings that form runway 33 at National Airport and they went out of sight into the main runway area. They were still on the Virginia side of the Potomac boundary. A few minutes later, one of them perched itself on a nearby (still Virginia side) runway light. It would eventually fly back into the airport main runway area like before. I left the area and came back around 11:30 and found one perched on a different pole in the same area (Virginia side). Soon a second one appeared on a nearby post. Finally, a plane flew over and spooked them causing them to fly out over my kayak which was about 20 feet from shore in the Potomac River (Washington DC). On Aug 4. 2018 I had filed an ebird report for a pair of Horned Larks that I saw in this same exact area that stayed on the edge of the Potomac (Virginia side) but did not cross over into DC waters.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 80D
- Lens
- EF200mm f/2.8L II USM
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 200 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 7500 pixels x 4219 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.96 MB