ML320439141

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

**Oak Top rarity; seen well flying north in tight group with CANG. Picked up on long string of geese fairly close in binoculars before quickly switching to scope to look for other species. Immediately picked up on these nearly duck sized geese flying close together within the flock. Small compact geese with dark heads down to beginning of breast. Birds showed brown upper parts with fairly pointed wings. Pale breast and clean rumps stood out well. Immediately went for pictures but due to not taking pics for a while our settings were not right for lighting. Still managed to get some horrendous shots off before the disappeared to the north. Yard bird for JSE and me and after years of checking near 8000 geese migrating over our yard it finally payed off. These southerly winded evenings can show some very obvious migration patterns. #199sp for me in the yard!

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Lens

EF400mm f/5.6L USM

ISO

1600

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/250 sec

Dimensions

676 pixels x 422 pixels

Original file size

48.86 KB