Inspiring and Supporting Photographers of Australian Birds
Photographed by | David Seymour on Sun 19th Jan, 2020 and uploaded on Sun 16th Feb, 2020 . | ||||||||||||||||||
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Comment | One thing you get used to in wildlife photography is unexpected behaviour. In my experience Swamphens are usually fairly quiet, sedate waders. In this case I was focused on a pair of juvenile Kelp Gulls resting on the lagoon when a sudden commotion drew my attention to this bird noisily charging through the water towards me, apparently intent on finding a dry perch on which to devour the succulent root of its recently acquired piece of aquatic vegetation. After being chased away from a couple of potential spots, it resorted to wading all the way to the lagoon edge and final success. Perhaps with the effort required to collect the food plus the knockbacks, the bird had reached the limit of its patience! | ||||||||||||||||||
Equipment | Canon EOS 7D II EF 100-400 L IS II + 1.4x III TC, at 560mm, centre spot servo AF, handheld Manual exposure, 1/1250 sec, f/9, ISO 400 Processing: Lightroom Classic CC2020 for RAW conversion and initial adjustments, then Photoshop CC2020 where moderate noise reduction was applied with Neat Image. Size reduction to web submission dimensions was followed by final sharpening using Smart Sharpen. | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Goulds Lagoon, Granton, southern Tasmania., Tasmania | ||||||||||||||||||
Keywords | feeding/with prey, adult, behaviour/display | ||||||||||||||||||
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