ML96010531
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Seen frequently during the count. Around 1130, 4 seen flying around the trees in the vicinity of the middle pond, darting and apparently foraging, making liquid calls, at ca treetop height and a bit below. At 1255, I watched and got a photo of an apparent male TRES perched in a flooded Populus near the middle pond, vigorously making sweet liquid 'chirp' calls for a minute or two. Then an apparent female (more drab, gray-brown) landed next to him and they faced each other and both gaped. I then saw them both take off at once. Around 1301 I got photos of 1 individual (a male?) perched in a low willow near this same cottonwood, then flying back to the far side of the cottonwood where a nest box was; it did not reappear. Ca 1 minute later a TRES that had been perched high in the same cottonwood flew down to the vicinity of the next box (I had moved so I could see the side of the box) and I heard vigorous, somewhat harsher calls; that swallow flew away without entering the box. I surmised that the first swallow was in the box and drove the other away.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 357 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 3515 pixels x 2861 pixels
- Original file size
- 961.73 KB