ML616669437
Contributor
Simon Pearce Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Table Mt. NP--Buffels Bay
Western Cape, South Africa
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
a vagrant to South Africa, an adult was stood on the beach in splendid isolation, facing out to sea. Although the gathering crowd kept a respectful distance, the penguin seemed completely unconcerned by the human presence and even took to wandering around the car park at one point, with folk having to step out of its way. Having just stepped off the plane only an hour or so previously, it was all somewhat surreal - our first experience of twitching, South African style! The bird was later assessed by park officials a couple of days later and found to be in a healthy state, eventually being translocated to an undisclosed private beach elsewhere on the peninsula, for its own welfare
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 26.5 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2566 pixels x 3422 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.89 MB