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Home Sweet Saguaro 20080225
25-FEB-2008

Home Sweet Saguaro 20080225

Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

I've been waiting and watching for 3 months to find a bird in one of
these saguaro cacti holes and today finally caught one. So happy! :)

Photographed in the Sonoran Desert west of Tucson, Arizona USA.
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Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
1/1600s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso200 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time25-Feb-2008 13:40:48
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length300 mm
Exposure Time1/1600 sec
Aperturef/5.6
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias-2/3
White Balance
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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comment
Lieve Snellings 01-Apr-2008 11:34
your patience is award, this is very beautiful and also very touching
Silvia Roitman 25-Feb-2008 21:53
very very nice!
Gérard Koehl 25-Feb-2008 21:36
Superbe capture... V