ML616404161

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

The Crakes were, quite simply, in wonderful form!! Almost immediately, I locked onto one pottering about at the nearest end of the grassy tongue of land splitting the wetland in two, utterly unconcerned as it beetled about in a way that reminded me a lot of a Stint, though the leaden-blue front and paint-dappled back, along with that cheerfully bright yellow and red bill standing out from a mile away couldn't have been more different from a Wader, of course!! It's very interesting how, when seen side by side, the Spotteds, portly and rather squished-looking as they are, really do behave completely unlike their linear-foraging, far more furtive cousins!! In all honesty, four is a particularly conservative guess... which of course means this was an immensely successful time of enjoying their presence!!

Technical information

Model

COOLPIX B600

ISO

125

Focal length

412.8 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.5

Shutter speed

1/320 sec

Dimensions

4608 pixels x 3456 pixels

Original file size

9.71 MB