ML608556892
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- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Observation details
Conservative estimate, counted by tens or twenties at various times. Actual count may well have been >1200. For most of the time we were there they were extremely active and noisy, usually converging at the waters in flocks of maybe 100-200 birds to feed. Then someone would walk by or a larger wave would break (or a Peregrine would swoop in) and they'd all take flight, do a few loops around the beach and repeat. Meanwhile, several hundred others would be milling around in the wrack or loafing. By the time we were leaving, however, most of them looked pretty tuckered out, and as the tide went out they gathered higher up the beach in the dry sand. Many of them remained upright and tucked their heads into their wings, but a few dozen just lay on the sand and snoozed.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/11.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3150 pixels x 2100 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.21 MB