{"id":7023,"date":"2015-06-12T06:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T10:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:05:31","slug":"calico-pennant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=7023","title":{"rendered":"Calico Pennant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid7021-DSCN6411.jpg?resize=904%2C678\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"678\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calico Pennant. Day Brook Pond, Kennebunk Plains Wildlife Management Area, ME<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I always look forward to the first Calico Pennant of the season. I found some teneral (newly emerged) Calicos at Day Brook Pond a week ago, but did not find any adults until yesterday. There were hundreds around the pond&#8230;males outnumbering females about 6 to one&#8230;but then the females had probably already dispersed for the day to feeding grounds further from the water. I did find a mating wheel. Calicos are relatively easy to photograph as they settle out frequently on perches that are predictable, once you know what to look for&#8230;and sometimes sit sunning themselves for 60 seconds at a time.<\/p>\n<p>This shot is a tele-macro shot, taken handheld at 4000mm equivalent using Digital Fine Zoom on the Nikon P900. I had to back off to the minimum focus distance of 16.5 feet to get the bug in focus. 1\/500th @ ISO 140 @ f6.5. 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