D200 + 80-400 VR @ 400mm, ISO 400, 1/160, f5.6, fill flash (SB910 + Better Beamer)
You may recall my reporting on a family of swans with 9 goslings last year. One of the swans flew into a construction fence just before fall migration. She was left behind when the rest of the family migrated south for the winter. During the winter a loan male swan found her and spent the winter with her. I don’t know the fate of the male, he disappeared during the summer yet the two of them produced the young swan in these images. Just before sandy I watched as mom and child practiced flying. Yesterday when I visited Oakland Lake hear in New York City, mom was not around. When I inquired I learned that she did not survive Hurricane Sandy. So now there is another young swan living alone on spring fed Oakland Lake and it will need to figure out how to survive a New York winter of follow somebody south.
Comments and suggestions welcome,
Morris
Ps. these are pre Sandy photos, the post Sandy photos don’t have the vivid fall color reflections that I chose to show.
nugeny wrote:
Great images of the gracious birds. i always want to shoot them but until now never got to really do it. i ought to make trips just for that purpose.
