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Cormorant in a flap

A little splash from the wingtip touching the water surface is just visible if you look hard.

Yesterday, I made another attempt at photographing cormorants in flight at slow shutter speeds.

Reviewing last week's results, I realised that 1/100th was just too slow , so tried with 1/200 sec, and got some better results. Usually, I use something like 1/2000 sec for a bird in flight to get a sharp picture. I got several shots with the head and eye sharp and noticed there was more success getting the eye sharp on the wing downbeat, than the upbeat - I wonder why that is.....

This bird isn't showing any sign of the white throat breeding plumage that appears around Spring..

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Uploaded on February 15, 2023
Taken on February 14, 2023