ML220518511
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Observation details
To this day, this is the only Noisy Miner we've ever had on our land... and what a baffling case it is!!! I remember doing some work and then hearing something strike the window right beside me... and then I saw a little ball of fluff whirring away in strange, hopping bounds! I set off in hot pursuit, camera in hand... and there it was!! Sitting on the ground, trilling and begging for food, was the most bizarre little baby bird I've ever seen here! I remember saying at the time it must surely be a young Bronze-Cuckoo kicked out by its victims... but no. The photos didn't match. To my astonishment, a search of the internet showed the identical match to be a young Noisy Miner!!! To this day, I can't figure out how it managed to hop all the way up the hill; I suspect it was carried up by a Raptor and, in a quirk of fate, somehow got dropped alive. I've never seen any case like this before...
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P510
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 360 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.9
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.93 MB