ML417531061
Contributor
George Vaughan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Little Forester River Estuary
Dorset, Tasmania, Australia
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Now this was, even including the star of the show, one of the absolute strangest sights imaginable; I was zooming in to photograph the Sooty Oystercatchers on the very edge beach when I spotted a tiny little hunched Duck right beside them... I would surely have thought it was a Teal, being right on the edge of the breakers, but I immediately understood the truth with one look at that incredible boot of a bill!!! A Shoveler, by the ocean!!! It ended up flying off with the Oystercatchers, and the last I saw of it was the sight of it bobbing about confusedly in the breakers themselves, like no Shoveler I've seen before!!!
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX B600
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 412.8 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 9.09 MB