ML41468481

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

The following story is unbeleivable. After birding in Léry this morning, I moved to the end of MacDonald Street at Maple Grove before noon. After birding for a short while with Sheldon Harvey and Barbara Sabo (spelling???) who were doing a Baillie birdathon and then with Pierre Lamontagne, I decided to check the end of Divina-Sauvé Street. Right after turning the corner, I spotted a crane flying west. From inside the car, I looked at the bird with my binos and soon realized that it was a WHOOPING CRANE. I took a few shots of the bird with my Coolpix 4500 that I hope to show you later. After going west, the bird soon veered east and I lost it below the tree line. The bird was definitely moving towards Montreal and who knows where it will end this evening: maybe Baie-du-Febvre or Saint-Barthélemy. The story does not finish here. I drove back toward Montreal in the hope to find the bird again, although the chances to see the bird again were pretty slim. As I was finally driven near my home at the corner of LaVérendrye Blvd and Woodland Street, I spotted another crane high in the sky. First, I though that it was the Whooping Crane again. As the traffic lights were red, I just had a few seconds to look at the bird through my binoculars and realized that this time I had a Sandhill Crane.

Technical information

Model

E4500

ISO

100

Focal length

32 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/9.2

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

620 pixels x 459 pixels

Original file size

161.7 KB