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Sandhill Crane at Dusk
Bosque Del Apache NWR - San Antonio - New Mexico
Saturday, November 20, 2004, 15:51:12
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© Copyright Ed Bustya
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Bosque Del Apache is the most amazing place in November when about 60,000 Snow Geese and 10,000 Sandhill Cranes visit. It's a bird photographer's paradise! The Sandhill Cranes roost in ponds at night, where the water gives them some protection from predators like coyotes, and they feed at the cornfields that the refuge maintains just for them. It is quite a sight to sit at the edge of the cornfield during the day and listen to them talk to each other in sort of a gurgling sound - the male makes his sound and the female or juvenile answers back. I think it's supposed to be how they keep track of each other (their families stick together). At the end of the day, they fly back from the cornfield to the ponds, when I captured this photograph.
Camera, Lens, and Exposure Information
Camera model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Lens used: Canon 600mm lens
Exposure Data:
ISO 1600.
1/320 at f/5.6.
Av exposure mode (Aperture Priority).
Multi-segment metering
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