ML108238431
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Photo shows bill shape, dusky eye line, pale eye, white wing patch and white tail feathers.
Observation details
This bird had been previously reported by Lena Ware who let all local birders know about it. Notes; I saw a thrush-sized, pale greyish-brown songbird flying along the wetland flashing white wing patches and a long dark tail with conspicuous white outer tail feathers. It flew into the top of a spruce at which point I snapped a few distant photos. I could see it's slightly darker grey back and paler whitish breast, faint grey eye line, and it's fine, slightly curved and pointed bill. It then flew into an aspen and disappeared out the other side. I searched carefully and fairly widely but did not see it again. The photo shows the slightly pale eye typical of Northern Mockingbird, and despite the distance helps document the record.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 3000 pixels x 2000 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.27 MB