ML69888431

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

***First Island Record (one previous hypothetical record). I spotted this bird foraging low in stunted munzothamnus blairii. It was well concealed as it foraged, all I could see was that it was a very gray bird that was bigger than a warbler. I finally got a better look at it and saw that it was a vireo based on size, structure and bill, and I thought it was possibly a bell's vireo since there was recently a bell's elsewhere on island and this bird seemed similar. About 30 seconds into the observation, the bird flushed into a heteromeles arbutifolia, and I saw that it had a complete bold eye ring and one wing bar, certainly a gray vireo!!! I slowly lowered my bins and raised my camera, getting 4 photos before the bird flushed out of view. I spent 15 minutes searching for it with no luck.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS REBEL T5i

Lens

EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM

ISO

500

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1824 pixels x 1216 pixels

Original file size

777.21 KB