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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Continuing pair - possibly attempting to nest. The birds were in the same area described by othes - a previously logged area. One bird was at the tree where it had been seen by others, but I didn't see the other bird at first. While I watched the first bird (probably male) it would fly off and get an acorn, and bring it back to the hole in the tree. It would present the nut, as if offering it to a mate, but got no response. It finally cached the nut, then flew off and returned with a bug. It again presented it's offering, and again no result, so it finally ate the bug, then flew off and returned with another nut. Later the second bird flew in from the trees near the trail and landed on a skinny dead tree. The first bird seemed to be trying to coax the second one toward the big tree, but it stayed on a skinny tree which it used as a base for flying off to hawk insects. Photos
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 500.0 mm f/5.6
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1500 pixels x 1071 pixels
- Original file size
- 101 KB