ML282826771

Age

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Sex

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Observation details

***1st Kenai record (but there may be a hunter record out there from the 80s; TBD). Found by Robin Collman yesterday. I viewed it from Bear Lake trail in a very small area of open water. Eventually every single duck left the patch of open water and it was the only one left (there was another somewhat larger open patch). Even the WODU took off several times only to re-land in the same area. Clearly not comfortable with its dwindling prospects of open water. Lake was 99% frozen (or more like 99.9% as Buzz Scher said), and I believe the vast majority of that occurred overnight. The exact same phenomenon happened last year after I found the Common Pochard (but in that case, it froze up completely overnight). For some reason this lake does not slowly freeze. Somehow it did not completely freeze over the following days of this report, despite rather low overnight temps. Bear Lake is a mystery.

Technical information

Model

ILCE-6500

Lens

FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS

ISO

160

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

2048 pixels x 1365 pixels

Original file size

1.79 MB