{"id":1886,"date":"2011-02-03T06:27:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T11:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/03\/232011-wood-storks-merritt-island-nwr\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T06:27:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T11:27:29","slug":"232011-wood-storks-merritt-island-nwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"2\/3\/2011: Wood Storks, Merritt Island NWR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wood Storks are both beautiful and ugly. The plumage is elegant, and in flight they are majestic, but that head!<\/p>\n

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Of course even in the head there is a kind of grotesque beauty\u2026kind of beautiful ugliness. Yes I know, contradictions\u2026but that is Wood Stork for you.<\/p>\n

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By the way, with these storks we move from Viera Wetlands to Black Point Wildlife Drive in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Merritt Island is another favorite birding and digiscoping place in my yearly round of festivals. I always try to do the Blackpoint loop at least twice, at two different times of day, on every visit to Titusville, and I am rarely disappointed. Even if the birds are less abundant than usual (as was the case with ducks this year), there is generally at least one really cooperative bird that sits for a series of really satisfying images\u2026and generally several. <\/p>\n

Canons SD4000IS behind the 15-56x Vario eyepiece on the ZEISS DiaScope 65FL for equivalent fields of view between 1000mm and 2500mm. 1) 1\/500th @ ISO 125, 2) 1\/640th @ ISO 125, and 3) 1\/800th @ ISO 125. Programmed auto.<\/p>\n

Lightly processed in Lightroom for Recovery (highlight control), and image clarity and sharpness.<\/p>\n

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