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Feeding Sora

by Brian Lengling

Category: AvianAdded September 23, 200879 views

Chicken-like Marsh Birds

Keywords: rails, shorebirds, Sora, secretive, yellow beaked

A little trophy for my patience. Sora's are very shy and reclusive and I comitted myself to several excursions to photograph one. I finally waded out into the marsh one morning to a spot where I could hear the call of several around me. Standing perfectly still waist deepin the water for about an hour, I caught this guy out of the corner of my eye and then waited another 20 minutes for him to cear the reeds and grass and offer me a series of shots.

Canon 40D Canon EF 100-400
400mm ISO 200
F/7.1 @ 1/320 sec
Image Format: Digital Capture - Greater than 9MPImage Crop: Greater than 75% of originalDigital Enhancement: NoneModel Release: NAProperty Release: NACaptive: No