{"id":37917,"date":"2016-03-08T05:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=37917"},"modified":"2016-03-08T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:21:41","slug":"pied-billed-grebe-the-wing-flap-that-wouldnt-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/pied-billed-grebe-the-wing-flap-that-wouldnt-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied-billed Grebe – The Wing-flap That Wouldn’t Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This\u00a0exhibition put all other wing-flaps I’ve seen to shame.<\/p>\n

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\"pied-billed<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed this Pied-billed Grebe several months ago at Farmington Bay. Usually when I witness water birds flapping their wings in place\u00a0I can barely get my lens trained on them before the performance is over but this bird proved to be an exception. As soon as it began I fired a burst that quickly\u00a0filled my buffer…<\/p>\n

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\"pied-billed<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

and the grebe just kept flapping so after my buffer cleared I started to nurse my shots.<\/p>\n

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\"pied-billed<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition lasted so long that there were periods of time that I stopped shooting and just watched the performance through my lens.<\/p>\n

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\"pied-billed<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Occasionally I fired off an individual shot or two as the grebe\u00a0turned a little in the water to give me a slightly better profile.<\/p>\n

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\"pied-billed<\/p>\n

1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then when it was finally over the grebe settled down into the water but continued to hold its wings out in this position for quite a while.<\/p>\n

I suspect that this exhibition may have been more than just exercise – that it was some kind of display meant to have meaning to other\u00a0nearby grebes. If so I don’t know what it might be but it certainly impressed this photographer. In the end I took 88 shots during the display (much of the time I wasn’t even shooting) and liked 48 of them enough to keep them.<\/p>\n

For me the behavior was at least as interesting as the images. I’d estimate that it lasted 20 seconds or more – a new record in my experience.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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This exhibition put all other wing-flaps I’ve seen to shame.<\/p>\n

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