ML619645232
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- Age
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- Sex
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Observation details
Medium sized shorebird with black wings, white body, and remarkably long red legs trailing behind in flight. We were just getting out for a quick pit stop and I was helping Louis move his boat when this bird came flying toward us, fortunately not too fast. Also fortunately I immediately recognized its unmistakable features, set down Louis’s boat, and ran 20 feet to my own to grab the camera and fire off some shots on the wrong settings, yelling to Louis all the time to make sure he got on it too. Fortunately the shots came out anyway. When a rare one surprises you like this it’s the best: no anxiety about chasing and possibly missing it, just the exhilaration of finding. As Shane said to me about another bird I found in this same spot a couple of years ago, self-found county birds are the crack cocaine of birding. I had him on the mind anyway because I believe this one may tie his final Brooklyn number, which is bittersweet. State bird #401, but more importantly, county bird #339.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF300mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1427 pixels x 951 pixels
- Original file size
- 216.95 KB