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1-MAY-2010 Michael Todd

Cook's Petrel

Santa Barbara Co, CA

Out of the 60+ Cook's we saw, I didn't get a good shot of any of them. Conditions on the boat for photographey were not good, and in the high winds these, as Terry Hunenfeld puts it, "winged rockets" were very hard to stay on.

Most of the birds were very worn and in molt, so not quite as pretty as the books show. You can just see the dark "M" pattern across the back of this bird.

Canon EOS 50D ,Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
1/2000s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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