I spent the morning at a something like your state parks known as a bird watching spot about 30min drive from home. As I was driving home I got lucky. I saw a Common Buzzard perched on a branch by the road, stoped the car to take a couple of shots as the Buzzard flew off. Then out of nowhere a crow came flying at the buzzard (who`s about 3x the size of a crow) and started chasing him. And I just fired away with a huge grin acros my face.
Looking at a Great Egret Parent in breeding plumage and a nestling with its beak open in the nest in a Breeding Colony.
Heavily Cropped; tripod mounted100-400mm GM set to 400 mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/250 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.69 Stops.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Sony ILCE-1 + FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS • f/2.8, 1/3,200 s, ISO 250.
Earlier this week, while helping a neighbor and friend with her A1 camera (exposure dial was sitting at an angle very loosely and seemed a bit damaged) the Cooper's Hawk was visiting again the water dish. It was lingering for at least an hour and a half at or in its "bath tub" or in the Juniper Tree/Bush next to it, preening its feathers. In these 90 minutes I had shot intermittently with my A1 about 6,000 frames and filled up both of my 160 GB - Sony CEA-G160T 160GB CFexpress Type A Memory Card (CEAG160T) - memory cards for a total of 320 GB.
On average each compressed raw file was about 55 MB in size.
So 55*6000/1000 = 330 GB,
in line with the total storage capacity of my 2 memory cards.
But how many of those 90 minutes could I actually document with images shot at 30 FPS.
So that's 6000/(30*60) = 3 minutes and 20 seconds coverage of the 90 minute elapse time.
In other words, for about 86 minutes and 40 seconds of those 90 minutes elapse time the A1 wasn't shooting images - provided my math is correct. Enough of this.
As one can see from the image above, the Hawk is standing on its right foot, its left foot tucked away in its feathers. This becomes a bit clearer from a short video animation I made from a few of m1 A1 images.
Got up at 3 am, drove 2 hours, hiked in the dark and made it in time to reach this location for sunrise. The fall color along the mountainside was a nice treat.
