ML596051041

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Nancy and I saw this large flock of Snow Geese strung across a field along this dirt road. The where eating wheat sprouts. We snuck up on them. She took some photos. I took a photo of her photographing them. my telephoto lens was set at 92,mm. I could not document the full width of the flock because I did not have a wide angle lens on my camera. I counted the flock with by using the visual approximation of 10 birds in a bundle from right to left and my estimate at that point was 400 approx. The the flock got spooked and it became apparent that there were at least an other 400 to 500 that we could not see until they were in flight that had been over the hill. There were other smaller flocks of Snow Geese along this road numbering in the hundreds. I used the same method of counting them and took some photos. I did not include some sparrow species too far away to identify.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7000

ISO

400

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/11.0

Shutter speed

1/1000 sec

Dimensions

3600 pixels x 2384 pixels

Original file size

3.82 MB