ML351078881
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Observation details
Well!! At first, as I reached the start of where the Waders roost, I was a bit perplexed to see so may Hoodeds and Red-Caps bunched together with only one tall Double-Banded workings its way along the waterline behind them... but then... then, right at the end of the sandy point, the beach was a solid mass of dark colours!!! There they were, massing together, an incredible sight of subtly handsome birds with watchful, careful demeanours!!! To my astonishment, a good proportion of these were still in almost complete breeding plumage, something you'd never see at a time like this in the South... and when they all leapt up to fly a little down the beach, they made a low, wheeling, knife-winged cloud!!! It was starting to get very late, and I'd spent so much time with the Curlews that I didn't end up getting quite as many shots of the Double-Banded flock as I'd have liked... but still!!! What remarkable and underrated characters these are!!!
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX B600
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 309.6 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 9.31 MB