ML619598456
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Observation details
1) When walking west of last parking lot on exit road by Middle Harbor Trail I heard a prothonotary calling west of parking lot. Later when I returned from walking I heard it again in multiple locations nearby west of parking lot. Then it was north of parking lot in wetland in canal of water south of Middle Harbor but couldn't see well in there. 2) Then when I was walking over wooden bridge to pennisula at north end of Middle Harbor Trail I heard one calling in SE area of pennisula (east of the wetland south of bridge) 3) The when leaving wooden bridge and walking north heard the one that usually calls west side of swampy marsh. #2 and #3 could be the pair that breeds near pennisula. 4) Then when walking east of parking lot on Middle Harbor Trail (having already heard the #1 at west end) when you get almost halfway east (near large dead tree on side of trail) I heard one calling near canal of water or long wetland south of Middle Harbor but it only briefly called then went south into woods because I was there. 5) So when I reached the far east end of Middle Harbor Trail just before wetland I didn't go in because of long grasses (ticks) but stood there looking east into woods which is west of wetland and heard a strange call - not prothonotary call and not "Tink" call. Didn't have my phone left it after went home to eat and recover but knew it was prothonotary and then I saw two of them interacting and only got a picture of the one on a branch. Then I think that one probably a female came outside the woods and took another pic. So I am not sure if #4 and #5 locations are used by the same birds. Last year when the prothonotaries were done breeding I would see groups of then not in wetland at east end but halfway west on that trail in the woods on both sides of trail.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
- Lens
- 3.8-247mm
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 221.1 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 650 pixels x 488 pixels
- Original file size
- 89.03 KB