ML530563411
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- Age
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- Sex
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Observation details
Well, this is a sad one. The local female was here with six ADORABLE babies. I mean some of the cutest birds I’ve ever seen. Then unnoticed that as they walked the flats, the gulls were getting close to them, and at one point, a RBGU grabbed one of the babies but was tackled by the mother before it could steal the baby. It was then that I had the horrible realization that the gulls were predating the babies. Although the mother appeared to be doing a good job of saving her little ones, while scoping the Hudson, I hardly someone scream, “Oh no! It got one!,” and I turned to see a poor, hopeless duckling in the jaws of a RBGU. I’ve never had such a distaste for gulls like I do today. *Update: by the next day, all the young were gone, from 9 on Sunday to 0 today 😢.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- ISO
- 2800
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2184 pixels x 1456 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.15 MB