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Observation details
one or more visible during most of the hour (and into the next hour); views generally short at any one time due to high seas, but multiple individuals were often seen together, with all four seen together investigating an apparent mola shattered by a sea lion (what we call a gull scrum); the birds were fairly close for a land-based seawatch, but estimate of closest approach was about 290 meters (measured on Google Earth); all birds were similar enough to each other that I here describe them as one; medium-sized (considerably smaller than BVSH), dark storm-petrels with obvious white rumps (could not discern dark divider, though this feature was discernible in pix); long, narrow wings giving a falcon- or nighthawk-like appearance in flight due to obvious bend at wrist in nearly all wing postures; obvious and well-defined ulnar bar extended from innermost ss all the way to the wrist with no diminution of paleness or definition at wrist; white of rump wrapped around sides of rump onto underparts; tail, which was blackish and notched or forked, appeared relatively short compared to the long wings giving a heavy-fronted appearance; the tail was black and strongly notched; at least two birds were molting remiges, having reached the inner and middle primaries, respectively;
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 516 pixels x 336 pixels
- Original file size
- 102.39 KB