ML214214291

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Found by Craig Anderson and Katie Bond out the south beach on the bay side at 11:00. Craig texted me and since Blake and I were in the park, we decided to go out. We parked at the west end of the South Point Trail. We walked 3 kilometres out the trail to the lake, then exactly 3 kilometres along the south beach towards Erieau. It took us an hour and a half to get there and it's not an easy walk, what with cutting through the patches of phrag and vegetation. It was feeding on a large pile of vegetation exactly where Craig and Katie found it 2 hours earlier - a bit past where the break was last year. There are a couple of large mounds of this vegetation nearby and I expect it'll be around a while. One of my photos shows a small mussel-type thing in its mouth. It seemed to be getting a lot of food when it was probing. The bird is moulting a bit but still resembles a winter bird for the most part. I'm thinking it may have overwintered in the area but who knows? Lots of photos.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS Kiss X6i

ISO

400

Focal length

250 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/2000 sec

Dimensions

1689 pixels x 1135 pixels

Original file size

564.53 KB