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Yeah, I've never seen a godwit eat an intact shell either. Very strange! Lighting and detail look really good across the subject. Wish for more head turn but that's really, really hard to get when the bird is focused on eating!
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Wonderful light, details and behavior. TFS
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Hi Jon, looks like you have turned a corner on the sooty element, details look much better and having a faster SS has certainly improved the IQ. Agree re the HA, but I think also you can tonally get more tonal range and so that wonderful plumage has more colour & depth, ditto the FG, just my take.
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Steve
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Interesting feeding behaviour. Nice to get "on film". Was a lower angle possible, even if that meant to get wet and dirty?
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Nice but for the head turned away. Getting flat on the ground would have been great. Godwits and many other shorebird species regularly eat mollusks. I believe that they crush the shells in the back of their throats and then retch up the indigestible stuff in a pellet called a bolus.
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Originally Posted by
Arthur Morris
Nice but for the head turned away. Getting flat on the ground would have been great. Godwits and many other shorebird species regularly eat mollusks. I believe that they crush the shells in the back of their throats and then retch up the indigestible stuff in a pellet called a bolus.
with love, artie
Thanks Artie, I had never seen it before.
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Lovely frame Jon...you got the colours spot on, with nice detail...Eiders eat whole mussels, shell and all, I used to think they would crush them first with their large bill...but they go down the hatch whole....
Well captured.
Will
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Originally Posted by
William Dickson
Lovely frame Jon...you got the colours spot on, with nice detail...Eiders eat whole mussels, shell and all, I used to think they would crush them first with their large bill...but they go down the hatch whole....
Well captured.
Will
Hey Will, I think that they have crushers toward the back of the throat ...
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