ML619529595
Contributor
Paul and Joan Woodward Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Lake Accotink Park
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Juvenile, Unknown sex - 4
- Tags
- Field notes/sketch
Media notes
Youngsters followed by female swimming away after having executed evasive action due to our presence.
Observation details
female with 4 LY. Female HOME swam out from shoreline as we approached. She herded her brood one way, then another. Then she froze watching us, and at that moment the 4 young birds vanished instantly. We remained in frozen as well, locked in eye contact with the female. After several seconds of no one moving, the 4 youngsters popped up out of the water together about 15 feet from where they had disappeared. They began swimming away followed by the female who carefully kept herself between us and them. Photo of this last moment as they swam away.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P1000
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 9.8 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/3.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 881 pixels x 482 pixels
- Original file size
- 173.41 KB