{"id":19438,"date":"2024-06-27T06:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=19438"},"modified":"2024-06-27T06:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:24:38","slug":"maine-the-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=19438","title":{"rendered":"Maine! The exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Least Terns: York County, Maine, USA, June 2024 \u2014 Apparently a new group of Least Terns, perhaps a dozen, have moved up to our local beach for second nests. They were actively courting yesterday, with a good amount of eel offering. I even got to see one actual exchange, and maybe caught a pair mating. Not this pair. This is just the exchange. There is no way Facebook would keep the images in the right order, so I have made them into a read right and down composite. If you are viewing on a phone you may want to pinch and zoom out to see each individual frame. Right place, right time, and ready! That is the key to wildlife photography. \ud83d\ude42 OM System OM-1Mkii with M.Zuiko ED 100-400IS zoom at 656mm equivalent (cropped to fill the frame\u2026I was shooting terns in flight, for which I find that 600mm works better than 800, and did not get zoomed back out to 800mm for these beach shots\u2026so, maybe, not quite ready\u2026but the sequence only lasted a second or two, and I got the shots :). Program mode with my birds-in-flight and action modifications. Processed in Photomator and assembled in FrameMagic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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