ML476869191
Contributor
Bryan Sharp Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Heritage Preserve
Franklin, Ohio, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Observation details
Looks like the first immature may have spread the word to a sibling, but then one chased the other away, which flew off toward the West. Sibling rivalry? Unfortunately, I was too far away to get a picture of this interaction, which I observed through my binoculars. Also one individual seemed to be practicing its hunting skills with a tried piece of cattail that was lying horizontally in the water. The bird struck at it and dropped it three consecutive times. Hopefully it was practice and not the bird thinking the cattail really was a fish.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3000
- ISO
- 1600
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 1280 pixels x 856 pixels
- Original file size
- 346.63 KB