ML617617115
Contributor
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Date
Location
VA RESTON Cosmo view to E mid-elevation
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Vocalizing
Media notes
we suspect this flight was an elaborate display in defense of territory
Observation details
the resident falcon soared and stooped, circled and hung on updrafts, flashed in and out of four urban canyons, and maintained a constant chatter either for pure enjoyment, exercise away from her eyrie, or disturbed perhaps as her eyases were 'managed' and banded by biologists intruding into her reproductive efforts. we managed a better-than-our-usual image of her in flight. note the broad wings compared to wing length characteristic of the falcon and unlike the narrow sicle of the tiercel wings
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX230 HS
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 70 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.9
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1225 pixels x 850 pixels
- Original file size
- 222.11 KB