{"id":5620,"date":"2022-06-08T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2022-06-08T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T00:01:32","slug":"loon-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5620","title":{"rendered":"Loon Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late yesterday afternoon, I headed down to the lake to observe the loon nest. There was not a lot of action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched for an hour and three-quarters. In that time the individual on the nest shifted position quickly twice. I am not sure they even turned the eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At about ninety minutes, I got up to stretched my legs and saw a second loon off the end of the point on the main part of the lake. This gave me hope that they might do a switch so I sat back down and waited another fifteen minutes before I decided that dinner was in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All told, I made about sixty exposures, mostly to keep myself entertained, not because there was great action!*<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scrollGallery id=864 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also experimented with video, something I rarely do. Here is a three minute clip that really gives you a feel for the &#8216;excitement&#8217; of loon watching! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try to stay awake&#8230; I did for more than an hour and a half!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZN5xbkavNw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* WARNING &#8211; photographer talk ahead! The first few exposures yesterday afternoon were made using with a 2x teleconverter (a different one from the one I used several days ago). There is certainly some degradation in the images made with the converter, although I am not sure that it is evident in the small files I post here. I am pretty convinced that I will get better results with deeper crops (to get similar fields of view) of the files made without the converter than I will using the converter. As you would expect, since it is a 2x converter, the file sizes differ by a factor of two as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll need to make a few prints before making a final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday afternoon, I headed down to the lake to observe the loon nest. There was not a lot of action. I watched for an hour and three-quarters. In that time the individual on the nest shifted position quickly twice. I am not sure they even turned the eggs. At about ninety minutes, I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,3],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","category-wildlife","tag-loons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}