ML100868131

Age and sex

Adult Female - X

Media notes

Posture, structure, leg length, ect

Observation details

Record submitted to the UBRC. Notes taken shortly after the sighting on my phone: Plover came flying in and I IDed it as a GP but my immediate reaction was that it didn’t sound high-pitched or strident enough for AMGP but sounded like the PAGP I heard all last year. It landed in terrible light but it was a poorly marked female with a yellowish face and fairly bright back. I got some terrible photos and it flew off past us calling again but I was fumbling with my phone and failed to get a recording. It flew off and I suspected it was a PG but wasn’t sure. About 15 minutes later though it flew back in circled very close to us where I got some flight shots in better light. And fail to properly operate the video on my phone. It landed on a distant bank and we got to watch it for a while. I noted: Long-legged appearance, lots of leg above the tibia-tarsal joint Drooping supercillum Tertials nearly reaching the tip of the tail Fair short appearing PP which gave the body a sort of abbreviated appearance, not as attenuated as AMGP Slightly more upright structure Sort of dumpy appearing body, less of the clean lines of AMGP white running all the way down the flanks Yellowish supercillium and face In flight the photos clearly showed long toe projection though I didn’t note it at the time Sent from my iPhone

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 70D

Lens

EF400mm f/5.6L USM

ISO

800

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/8000 sec

Dimensions

601 pixels x 388 pixels

Original file size

253.13 KB