{"id":11911,"date":"2019-03-25T07:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2019-03-25T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:18:38","slug":"common-mergansers-courting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Mergansers courting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is not a great photo as photo go. The birds were too far away across the Little River Marsh from the overlook on the Laird-Norton Trail at Laudholm Farms (Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve)…so far away that it took 2x Clear Image (digital) zoom to identify them. And then a heavy crop to make the birds big enough so that you can identify them in the photo. But they are Red-breasted Mergansers, and they were actively displaying and courting, and on the theory that any photo is better than none \ud83d\ude42 Sony RX10iv at 1200mm equivalent (2x Clear Image Zoom). 1\/1000th @ f5 @ ISO 100. Processed in Polarr.<\/p>\n

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