ML313858931
Contributor
David Clapp Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
North Chatham Landing
Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Adult male and a female sleeping on water (a modest tidal eddy) a few feet from the shoreline. Among 120-150 common eider. Always close to each other. Finally female dove, male lifted head, he flew, she flew and they went east toward the outer beach. They were watched for about an hour. Eider were not flying in and out of the sleeping flock. They were in an eddy and were not much effected by the tidal flow.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 2274 pixels x 1546 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.01 MB