ML182688091
Contributor
Nels Nelson Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Fernhill Wetlands (general)
Washington, Oregon, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Flying
- Tags
- Habitat
Observation details
As I was near the end of my survey and just coming back to the parking area, this bird suddenly appeared, heading in to the strong wind and rain coming from the SW. It was having a heck of a time trying to land on the tip of a limb of this tree on the west side of the parking lot. The wind and rain was so strong, it had to give up on landing on one limb, then moved to this limb and finally got hold of the limb with its talons and was hanging on for dear life. The very dark, stormy weather made taking photos almost impossible. As I recall, I had the ISO way up to 6400 to get this poor but diagnostic shot.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 60D
- ISO
- 6400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/13.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3208 pixels x 1707 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.73 MB