Wilson's Phalarope at Col. Sam.
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Wilson's Phalarope at Col. Sam.

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on: May 19, 2012, 05:56:44 PM
I found this beauty at 3:40 PM where I watched her feed for twenty or so minutes before she took off to the east. What a way to get a lifer!




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Reply #1 on: May 19, 2012, 06:49:24 PM
I saw mine just before lunch around 12 noon
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Reply #2 on: May 20, 2012, 08:31:51 AM
How wonderful! I am both envious and filled with delight!
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Reply #3 on: May 20, 2012, 03:39:21 PM
Great sighting, I was there all morning and didn't see it!
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Reply #4 on: May 20, 2012, 03:44:49 PM
Great set, I have yet to get one of these.
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Reply #5 on: May 20, 2012, 04:23:27 PM
Well done :grin:  on 3 counts:   finding one in Toronto, getting such great views, and capturing great images!

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Reply #6 on: May 20, 2012, 06:29:50 PM
Yes indeed, these pictures are terrific. Me, I went on a fruitless search for the fine phalarope today. Humber Bay & Col. Sam...no luck for me...what a bird!
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Reply #7 on: May 20, 2012, 06:35:22 PM
I'm curious about your distance from the bird, and I'd love to know which lens you were using? My guess is the Canon 400mm f5.6 but I'm often wrong about such things. So terrific; what an opportunity, etc...good for you!!
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Reply #8 on: May 20, 2012, 06:41:13 PM
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Yes indeed, these pictures are terrific. Me, I went on a fruitless search for the fine phalarope today. Humber Bay & Col. Sam...no luck for me...what a bird!


That's too bad she wasn't cooperating, but with the two sighting in different parks probably means either she is being chased away by too many people or doesn't stay in one place long....I saw mine at
humber around 11.30am at the big pong where they race the sailboats. There was a guy throwing a ball into the first pond for his dog to fetch and could of moved over to that one later and chased her away

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Reply #9 on: May 20, 2012, 06:50:26 PM
Thank you very much! I like to think of it as an early birthday present after missing out on phalaropes at Hillman last week...

As far as I could tell she seemed completely unperturbed by people - she was originally about 15m offshore but slowly bobbed closer to feed in the shallows and in fact flew in towards me sitting on the rocks to about 5m (at least according to my camera's exif data). There were dogs swimming along the shore ahead of and behind her, though, which is about when she bailed.

I'm shooting with a 300mm f/4 and a 1.4TC on a D90.
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Reply #10 on: May 20, 2012, 10:48:19 PM
Super  :D
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Reply #11 on: May 21, 2012, 11:45:05 AM
The dogpeople and sailboat people of Humber Bay steam my cabbage like none other! I try to be nice about things but sometimes want to explode on them! I tell myself to be easy, to calm down, there are other birds...
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Reply #12 on: May 28, 2012, 06:08:09 PM
Outstanding shots, nice find.

Clemens 8)
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