Cute but Doomed???

[Arthur Morris]

Monsieur Chris Dodds has made the 1.8 mile climb up to the gannetry on Bonaventure Island more than 135 times. In previous years, he had never once seen any chicks away from the nest, but this year, we had a large chick or two on the mowed grass on our side of the rope or in the taller grass just under the rope every morning. We noted that at least two of those large chicks had not survived. We found the bird in this image under the rope on my last morning...

Canon 70-200 f/4 L IS lens (handheld at 121mm) with the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 400. Evaluative Metering +1/3 stop: 1/320 sec. at f/8 set manually. On camera fill flash at -2 stops.

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