This is not a crop. It's a single frame from a video.
While I was videoing this Mother loon with her chick, I found that my canoe was being very slowly moved closer to her. The *slightest* air movement pushing on my canoe's freeboard will very slowly move my canoe. Maybe it is because I have no keel on this one. I do not know.
With this image I am near the 500PF's MFD, and she is ok with this. Behaviorists have named this "Conditioning". By her tolerating this closeness, I am even more certain than before, that she is the female for this basin for many years. We have been near each other many times over the years. She is the mate of the male that was killed last year by an intruding male. *And that intruding male is her mate this year.*. Loons do not mate for life.
This shows me why the 180-600 zoom will be very valuable for my video work.
Oct 28, 2023 at 06:36 PM
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While I was videoing this Mother loon with her chick, I found that my canoe was being very slowly moved closer to her. The *slightest* air movement pushing on my canoe's freeboard will very slowly move my canoe. Maybe it is because I have no keel on this one. I do not know.
With this image I am near the 500PF's MFD, and she is ok with this. Behaviorists have named this "Conditioning". By her tolerating this closeness, I am even more certain than before, that she is the female for this basin for many years. We have been near each other many times over the years. She is the mate of the male that was killed last year by an intruding male. *And that intruding male is her mate this year.*. Loons do not mate for life.
This shows me why the 180-600 zoom will be very valuable for my video work.
Oct 28, 2023 at 06:31 PM
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While I was videoing this Mother loon with her chick, I found that my canoe was being very slowly moved closer to her. The *slightest* air movement pushing on my canoe's freeboard will very slowly move my canoe. Maybe it is because I have no keel on this one. I do not know.
With this image I am near the 500PF's MFD, and she is ok with this. Behaviorists have named this "Conditioning". By her tolerating this closeness, I am even more certain than before, that she is the female for this basin for many years. We have been near each other many times over the years. She is the mate of the male that was killed last year by an intruding male. *And that intruding male is her mate this year.*. Loons do not mate for life.
This shows me why the 180-600 zoom will be very valuable for my video work.
Oct 28, 2023 at 06:31 PM
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While I was videoing this Mother loon with her chick, I found that my canoe was being very slowly and inadvertently moved closer to her. The *slightest* air movement pushing on my canoe's freeboard will very slowly move my canoe. Maybe it is because I have no keel on this one. I do not know.
With this image I am near the 500PF's MFD, and she is ok with this. Behaviorists have named this "Conditioning". By her tolerating this closeness, I am more certain that she is the female for this basin for many years. We have been near each other many times over the years. She is the mate of the male that was killed last year by an intruding male. *And that intruding male is her mate this year.*. Loons do not mate for life.
This shows me why the 180-600 zoom will be very valuable for my video work.
