ML88173011
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
Media notes
Flying to -33.976343, 151.066692.
Observation details
A locally vagrant immature Black Bittern was observed between 3:42pm and 4:16pm about Lime Kiln Bay Wetlands. It was initially discovered at 3:42pm when it flushed from where the main pond was spilling over into the reed bed at -33.976449, 151.065983 to a patch of dense vegetation growing at -33.976343, 151.066692. Thereafter it flew to -33.976409, 151.067094 where it first stood in the shallow water before jumping onto the bank. It remained there for some three minutes. It then flew to the Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca) at -33.976647, 151.066227. And a few minutes afterwards it departed that tree and perched high in the Swamp Oak located on the island at -33.976422, 151.066626. At 4:14pm it left the main pond and flew westward to the runoff channel which runs along the firetrail and two minutes later it disappeared into the reeds growing around the willow tree (Salix species) at -33.976735, 151.065490.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 5D
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1467 pixels x 903 pixels
- Original file size
- 490.25 KB