ML619271207
Contribuidor
Fecha
Localidad
- Edad
- No especificado
- Sexo
- No especificado
Detalles de la observación
Continuing on the island in the lake. First reported on South Bay Birds by Melanie Barnett this morning. When I arrived at the northwest corner of the lake, I immediately saw the oystercatcher foraging along the north shore of the island. I saw it make a couple short flights between the elevated center of the island, where it rested, and the shoreline, where it foraged. I heard it give its raucous call when it made one of these flights, probably flushed by a nearby kayaker. The few nesting birds on the island mostly left it alone, but I saw it have small squabbles with an avocet and a Forster's Tern. I continued to watch the oystercatcher as I made my way around the lake. When I got to the vantage point from the maintenance road, along the southwest side of the lake, the oystercatcher was up on the elevated center of the island, and thus visible from this vantage point, so I got some closer-range views of it from here. It was still on the island when I left.
Información técnica
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX620 HS
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 112.5 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 396 pixels x 297 pixels
- Original file size
- 44.83 KB