ML622566823

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Observation details

The most I could see at one time; could have been more. I had looked and listened all around the park from about 12:30. Thought I heard some a couple of times but only for a few seconds. Finally at about 4 pm while I was sitting on a bench falling half-asleep I heard them and Merlin SoundID confirmed. They were flying about but very high up almost the entire time, best viewpoint seemed to be the first bridge crossing the Rideau from the park towards King Edward. Only once in a while over a period of 2 hours before I left did one come down below the highest level of the surrounding trees, and then always flying so fast that I couldn't get any photos. They were flying around a very large area around the river and often extremely high up, at times so high up that with the naked eye they seemed to come down into view from nothing. I attached a photo taken with a 500mm lens, deliberately left uncropped to give an idea of how high up they often were.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D5000

ISO

200

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/1250 sec

Dimensions

4288 pixels x 2848 pixels

Original file size

2.42 MB