{"id":3374,"date":"2012-12-05T05:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T10:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2012-12-05T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T11:06:00","slug":"little-brown-bat-bosque-del-apache-nwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"Little Brown Bat: Bosque del Apache NWR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is not the kind of wildlife Bosque del Apache was set aside to protect\u2026not by a long shot\u2026but it is wildlife that has certainly found a home there. This is, literally, a Little Brown Bat\u2026which happens to be an apt description and its common name. Two of them had found a day-roost right over the main entrance door of the Visitor\u2019s Center at the Refuge, under the overhanging roof, where, on Festival of the Cranes weekend, six or seven thousand people walked right under them. I must have done so myself several times before someone pointed them out. <\/p>\n

The light was dim up under the roof and the bats were just far enough to require full zoom on the camera. This is a good testimony to the quality of the image stabilization\u2026hand held at 1200mm equivalent and1\/60th of a second. That should not be possible. <\/p>\n

Canon SX50HS. Program with auto iContrast and Shadow Fill.  1200mm equivalent field of view. f6.5 @ 1\/60th @ ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness. <\/p>\n

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