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This photo (taken at 12:53 PM) was obtained shortly after my arrival on site, and it provided a nice feeling for this tall bird wading through the tall grass--and it did so without obscuring important, potentially viewable, details of the bird. It is not, though, a side-on shot, so it does not provide the high-quality view of the face of the bird that may be had in a couple of the other photos herewith, especially in the sole digiscoped photo.
Podrobnosti k pozorování
Based upon study of my photographs and review of my field notes, this individual exhibited somewhat less than full adult plumage, although it had mainly adult features. Nonetheless, I believe that labeling it (below) as adult might be misleading as to its actual plumage state (indicating age), so I am listing it below as "immature." PLEASE NOTE: In discussing below my photos I will point out specific features indicating that this individual evinced less than full adulthood, fully recognizing, though, that most of its features were like those of adults. I will, using this set of photos, also document this bird's capture and ingestion of a Hispid Cotton Rat and will supplement that by providing some visual observations of this heron obtaining and consuming its New Year's Day feast. This Bare-throated Tiger-Heron initially was found (and reported) on December 21, 2009 by R. Nirschl and R. Snyder. Publicity concerning this first-ever (USA) finding brought many birders to this state park to search for it. The present report concerns my own fifth effort to find and photograph it. A few days before this I had had a very brief sighting of a bird in flight, near day's end, that closer birders had affirmed was this desired species, but from my greater distance, seeing the bird briefly in flight in low-level light was inadequate for definitive personal identification and for photography.
Technické informace
- Model
- Canon EOS 10D
- ISO
- 400
- Ohnisková vzdálenost
- 255 mm
- Blesk
- Flash did not fire
- Clonové číslo
- f/11.0
- Expoziční čas
- 1/1000 sec
- Rozměry
- 541 pixels x 729 pixels
- Původní velikost souboru
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