This isn’t the highest quality shot but I was at the Ridgefield NWR back in April of 2010 and was given a tip that a Eurasian Green-winged Teal (EGWT) was around post 6 (my best recollection). I headed over there and low and behold this male EGWT was probably 60-70 feet off the road. But it spotted me quickly and began paddling. I only got 3 frames. I had a slow f6.3 500mm Bigma lens on my Canon 40D, shooting at ISO 400, which was pretty high for this camera. Shutter speed was 1/250–very slow compared to what I shoot at now for moving birds. But the shot was good enough to identify clearly the horizontal white feather line which separates this bird from its American cousin, which has a vertical white line. This was one of those shots where I remember it like it was yesterday and remember how exciting it was to capture this bird.
A Rarity from 2010
Posted in Ducks, Grebes, Cormorants, Swans, etc.
This isn’t the highest quality shot but I was at the Ridgefield NWR back in April of 2010 and was given a tip that a Eurasian Green-winged Teal (EGWT) was around post 6 (my best recollection). I headed over there and low and behold this male EGWT was probably 60-70 feet off the road. But it spotted me quickly and began paddling. I only got 3 frames. I had a slow f6.3 500mm Bigma lens on my Canon 40D, shooting at ISO 400, which was pretty high for this camera. Shutter speed was 1/250–very slow compared to what I shoot at now for moving birds. But the shot was good enough to identify clearly the horizontal white feather line which separates this bird from its American cousin, which has a vertical white line. This was one of those shots where I remember it like it was yesterday and remember how exciting it was to capture this bird.
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