We have been enjoying several trips up to the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island in Newburyport, MA. Now that is a truly wonderful place. And now the autumn glories have begun! The Saturday before last I was furiously photographing the Sanerlings, Calidris alba. They always offer fun and challenging photographs and as always the key to bird photograph is getting the eyes in focus. I am getting better at using my big birding lens.
The fellows of Figure 1 were feeding on a patch of flotsam, and, in truth, I didn’t even see that one of them had made off with a tasty lunch, ceviche perhaps. I am not quite sure what it is, probably some part of a starfish, but it does make for a cool photograph. As always in the surf line, the reflections mirror the birds beautifully.
Canon T2i with EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 IS USM lens at 260 mm, ISO 800 mm, Aperture priority AE Mode 1/4000th sec at f/7.1 with no exposure compensation.