ML67326981
Contributor
Cristina Hartshorn Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Olmsted Park--Leverett Pond
Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Male - X
Media notes
Stalling against the wind to check the water below for fish.
Observation details
Possibly an immature, some of the photos show white specks on its dark plumage. It flew over the pond for a full hour, often stalling its flight against the wind to check for fish in the water, quite spectacular. It dove four times coming up empty, but finally on the fifth time it caught a fish. It struggled a bit to come up again with its twisting load but was eventually able to gain altitude and carried its prey to a tree.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P610
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 116.5 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 1653 pixels x 1282 pixels
- Original file size
- 330.42 KB