On almost every trip to bring food to the hatchlings the adults also then carry a fecal sac out of the nest and drop it far away. Pretty neat behaviour, and cool that they are programmed to do such house cleaning. They normally shot right out of the hole like a bullet, making it difficult to get a proper image, but once in a while one would pause for a second or two beforwe jumping out. The sac was rather bright compared to the rest of the image...it was, um, interesting to work on at 100% magnification or more.
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1250s., f/6.3, ISO 400 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, just about FF (slight crop top and left).








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