Saturday, June 4, 2011

A rather damp nesting site



These Great-Crested Grebe were on the Plover Lake at Lackford Lakes recently. They had found a very shallow spot about 20 metres off shore, and were piling it up with weed, apparently to see if they could build a nest there. They only did this for a while, so maybe they decided it would not work, or perhaps they just called it a day.

This is another digiscope shot. The Grebe were about 50 metres from the hide, and filled the frame at minimum zoom on the scope. There is pretty obvious softness at the edges of the frame at this setting.

Canon 60D with Celestron Ultima 80 at 1/400 sec at f/6.3 (fixed), ISO 320

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