ML117161581
Contributor
Scott Hampton Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Hay Lake--North End
Glacier, Montana, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Almost all were European Starlings but there were a few Brewer's Blackbirds and blackbird spuhs in there.
Observation details
At the time I estimated this flock to be at least 200. From the photo I count 788 birds. At the time I estimated 10 of the group to be BRBL or blackbird sp, it was almost all EUSTs. So increasing my estimate of the blackbird portion roughly like the increase in estimated versus actual number of starlings leads me to believe about 40 of the birds in the photo might've been blackbirds. (788/200 = x/10 so x=39.4? don't know how reasonable this is). So I'm truncating 788 to 750 starlings.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P600
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 35.8 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/80 sec
- Dimensions
- 3601 pixels x 1397 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.17 MB