ML617625666

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Hahaha finally got these cuckoos! Too elusive never saw them despite hearing them all the time. Lifer! Around the swimming pool toilet heard their v call very close it was coming from a stand of thickets and trees behind the toilet building singing loudly with intervals of 30 sec where it would stop Singing I did playback of their song for about 4 segments and it suddenly took off from that area didn’t see where exactly flew over me distinct cuckoo shape and went to trees about 30 m behind me and continued calling g there had a hard time finding it another hotel staff joined me in the search finally found our high in the canopy got some poor photos then the guy pointed out the goshawk for me then he pointed to the cuckoo again for a better viewing angle he told me to come to a corner of the swimming pool where I could see it better at trees edge then a second Cuckoo came in with much better viewing angle very little obstruction ( cuckoo viewing standards ) probably a different sex that responded to the call they kept together about 30 kind later while I was watching the black flycatcher around parking lot saw the two cuckoo flying again in that same swinmjng pool area very very cool !

Technical information

Model

ILCE-7M3

Lens

100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020

ISO

2500

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/320 sec

Dimensions

1777 pixels x 1529 pixels

Original file size

1.92 MB