I don't know. It might have been a Bald Eagle flying over. I saw that
happen several times earlier in the day.
I also saw two red shoulder hawks squabbling over a snow goose carcase
that one or the other must have brought down. That was over near the
feeding grounds.
This is just part of one of several great flocks(?) that exploded up
from the pond simultaneously; just a tiny bit of what was visible in one
direction. At the same time I took this, there was another great flock
overhead and a third passing behind me.
Within another 15 minutes, they'd all returned and settled in again and
by then the light was completely gone.
When I got there in January, it was the coldest day of the winter,
record setting low temperatures overnight & this was one of two ponds
that wasn't completely frozen over.
The park volunteers told me the geese & the Sandhill Cranes usually
spread out to several other ponds, but with the other ponds iced over
they were all concentrated in the two big ponds for a few days.
This is the best slice out of one frame, sort of what you could do with
the PZ-1p. Except that PZ-1p always gave you the center of the frame,
and this is from the bottom third.
On 9/7/2013 1:47 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Wow! That's a great shot, John.
Did someone pop a paper bag to startle them? :-)
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:38 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
Panorama cropped from a single frame.
K10D, Tokina AT-X Pro 287 @ 70mm, f/8, 1/800sec, ISO 800
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/9690539472/lightbox/
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