ML619105785
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Flying
Observation details
0807 Female adult flew in and fed 2 begging nestlings that were extending their heads out of the nest cavity. Adult then went into nest for about a 1 minute, presumably to feed other nestlings? 0840 Female adult fed 2 nestlings, including going into nest briefly afterwards before flying away. 0917 Female adult fed both nestlings, but did not go into nest after feeding them both. 0927 Female adult fed 2 begging nestlings, but again did not go into nest afterwards. 0937 Female adult fed one begging nestling and then flew off, second nestling not seen. 1001 Female adult fed one nestling at the opening, flew off and again second nestling not seen. **Summary: Overall more frequent feedings today compared to yesterday. Nestlings did not extend their heads as far out the nest cavity during feedings compared to yesterday. Second nestling not seen during last 2 feedings. Female adult did all feedings today. Male spent some of the time inside the nest, and often looked outside opening, presumably to defend nest. But when an adult PIWO wasn’t present inside or near the nest, on 5 different occasions, a European Starling entered the PIWO nest and stayed inside for approximately a minute at a time.**
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON Z 8
- Lens
- NIKKOR Z 600mm f/6.3 VR S
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 4330 pixels x 3097 pixels
- Original file size
- 10.02 MB