ML53458551
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- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
The flushed second bittern before it landed.
Observation details
*Scarce migrant. Very surprised to find two birds. Originally looking from the road at the Georgia Lane overview I saw no bitterns. Noticing a small path leading down to the marsh, I decided to follow it and see if I could scan a more complete area. Upon getting there, I finally found one of the American Bitterns standing like all bitterns, in Tyne reeds upright and still. I walked a bit further to the left on the path (now more like a peninsula) to get a better view, and all of a sudden flushed another American Bittern from the edge of the path! Very surprising! I captured some in-flight photos of it before it relocated in the marsh, and got some shots of the one closer to me standing still. Upon getting back to the road, I was able to locate both bitterns again, and took digiscopes of both. Overall brown heron-like birds, cream stripes on neck, and long dagger-like bill. Photos.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF300mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2640 pixels x 1760 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.74 MB