ML42064921
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Fecha
Localidad
- Edad
- No especificado
- Sexo
- No especificado
- Etiquetas
- Múltiples especies
Detalles de la observación
Noting the north winds and peak time of year, we headed to Boiler Bay hoping for a good shorebird day and were not disappointed. Spectacular, with waves of peeps flying northward in large flocks. Numbers were so impressive that I resorted to counting how many flocks flew past. I tallied just over eleven hundred large flocks (200-300+ birds, some flocks up to 2000+) and many smaller groups. Clearly hundreds of thousands had migrated past. The movement gradually moved further offshore, but I was still tallying endless flocks of two to three hundred peeps until we left. At times many thousand would pass close by in only a few minutes. Our final estimate was 330,000 but we rounded down slightly. I think this number is conservative, as it was easy to underestimate flock sizes, and we were often missing flocks when our focus turned to something else.
Información técnica
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX20 IS
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 100 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.7
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 4000 pixels x 1474 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.48 MB