ML114111701
Contributor
Kristen Johnson Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Haverford College Nighthawk Watch
Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Observation details
5:35-5:45, 1 feeding, 9W; 5:45-6, 42W; 6-6:15, 10W, 60N, 12 feeding; 6:15-6:30, 47; 6:30-7:30, 120 or more feeding low, everywhere around us, impossible to count or determine if birds were coming or going from the group, estimate was made at the start of the time period; gradually numbers trickled down so that by 7:30 there were about 25 remaining; then most seemed to vanish and new groups came in and headed more or less south or west; 7:30-7:45, 62; 7:45-8, 7; evening count could easily have been much higher if a significant number of birds moved through while feeding; we heard calls twice at about 7:30 PM; season total is now 1982
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3100
- ISO
- 220
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 2048 pixels x 1413 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.04 MB