ML283444191
Contributor
George Vaughan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Goulds Lagoon Wildlife Sanctuary
Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I was in the hide when I saw it coming towards me; I almost thought it was a Gull, being front-on as it was... but no. The long glides... the towering spirals... the frantically beating knife-blade wings that gave the bird the look of a thin, flying anchor... a Peregrine!!! Of all the Tasmanian Raptors, this is my favourite, as my regular readers will know, so you can imagine my contentment as I watched it spiral around and around, even stooping to shoot down at the pond across the road, albeit without any real attempt at a hunt... a more beautiful, powerful weapon of a bird I struggle to conceive of!!
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P610
- ISO
- 110
- Focal length
- 143.3 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1600 pixels x 1200 pixels
- Original file size
- 772.44 KB