ML186202921
Contributor
David Drews Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 70
- Behaviors
- Flying
- Tags
- Habitat
Observation details
Flying southward in wave after wave. 14 were seen on the water, others in the air. Typical groups ranged from a low of 10-20, to many at 30-45, and several at 55-70. Estimated at least 1000 on site. Looking at photo sequence carefully, at least 1600 photographed over five minutes of a six minute sequence, after eliminating any apparent redundancies. Photographed in each minute from 10:59-12:05: 346, 224, 458, 374, 85, 0 (no photos), 170. I had seen several groups fly by before starting to photograph--too difficult to count at distance--so count is likely higher.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D5200
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 6000 pixels x 1928 pixels
- Original file size
- 7.1 MB