Dancing into the Sunset

• Where was the image taken?

  Moscow, Russia
• The bird in the photo

  Podiceps cristatus (hu: Búbos vöcsök en: Great Crested Grebe)
• Story of the image

  All day I watched as a couple of grebes completed a practically finished nest with algae in a pond near my house. I came to the nesting site again in the evening, when the sun was already setting producing golden-copper glare on the surface of the water. It took some time before I found two silhouettes in the distance. The grebes were dancing. Facing each other, they shook their heads down, up, to the sides, then fluffing, then folding the feathers on their heads and necks.

  Exif adatok

  Photo capture date

  2024-05-19T19:38:27

  Exposure time

  1/2000s

  Focal Length

  306mm

  Flash

  Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

  Camera make

  NIKON CORPORATION

  Type of camera

  COOLPIX P1000
• Category

  Madarak viselkedése

• Fotós:

  Marina Gavrikova