{"id":1002802,"date":"2009-11-01T19:44:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002802"},"modified":"2009-11-01T19:44:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:44:17","slug":"prospect-park-november-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2009\/11\/01\/prospect-park-november-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospect Park November 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few hours in the park today, mostly just to experiment with the camera, but I still managed to tally 26 species including my first Buffleheads of the year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  Mute Swan <\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Black Duck<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid)<\/li>\n<li> \tMallard<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Shoveler<\/li>\n<li> \tBufflehead<\/li>\n<li> \tRuddy Duck<\/li>\n<li> \tGreat Blue Heron<\/li>\n<li> \tBlack-crowned Night-Heron<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Coot<\/li>\n<li> \tRing-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li> \tHerring Gull<\/li>\n<li> \tRock Pigeon<\/li>\n<li> \tBelted Kingfisher<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-bellied Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li> \tDowny Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li> \tEastern Phoebe<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Crow<\/li>\n<li> \tTufted Titmouse<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-breasted Nuthatch<\/li>\n<li> \tRuby-crowned Kinglet<\/li>\n<li> \tHermit Thrush<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Robin<\/li>\n<li> \tEuropean Starling<\/li>\n<li> \tChipping Sparrow<\/li>\n<li> \tSong Sparrow<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-throated Sparrow<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Cardinal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ring-billed-Gull-Juvenile.jpg\" alt=\"1st winter plumage Ring-billed Gull\" title=\"Ring-billed Gull Juvenile\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ring-billed-Gull-Juvenile.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ring-billed-Gull-Juvenile-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nRing-billed Gull, 1st Winter Plumage<br \/>\nProspect Park, 2009-11-01<\/p>\n<p>Camera-wise my best results so far seem to come from the Tamron 28-300mm DI VC lens fully extended at 300mm, about f\/8, with the 580 EX II flash. I also discovered today that the camera&#8217;s AV mode is a little conservative with shutter speed. In manual mode I can definitely set it faster than the camera thinks wise. Grain&#8217;s noticeable at ISO 800, though I can clean that up a little in Lightroom. <\/p>\n<p>It also occurred to me to compare the binoculars to the zoom. Turns out a 200mm lens (on a APS-C sensor) is roughly equivalent to a 10x pair of binoculars: i.e. the field of view is roughly the same. A 300mm lens should be equivalent of about 15x. I&#8217;m not sure why the binoculars are so much brighter and clearer than the equivalent pictures. Best guess is that we haven&#8217;t yet developed CCDs that are equivalent to the human retina. There are 120 million or so rods in each eye (and another 6 or 7 million) cones, which is still close to an order of magnitude larger than the number of pixels in most cameras. Plus I suspect the eye is more responsive than the CCD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few hours in the park today, mostly just to experiment with the camera, but I still managed to tally 26 species including my first Buffleheads of the year: Mute Swan American Black Duck American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) Mallard Northern Shoveler Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron American Coot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002805,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002802\/revisions\/1002805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}