Contributor
Samuel Paul Galick Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Princeton Junction--Grover Farm
Mercer, New Jersey, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Observation details
Successfully hunting insects- seen eating a dark cricket. Walking in a low spot at times laying on the ground nearly disappearing from view. Relatively close to the road, at times during car commotions it looked skittish and aware of our presence but never flushed. Right time of the year, wing molt, South winds for the past week, a recent report (two weeks prior) of a flyby southbound Crested Caracara reported from near Yamaska, Montérégie, Quebec. While exceedingly rare in the East, there are patterns of regular (but rare) occurrences in the West where they are accepted records of vagrancy. I find it extremely curious that a northbound Crested Caracara seen at Sandy Hook in May of 2007 showed up in MA later the same month...
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/3200 sec
- Dimensions
- 1728 pixels x 1152 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.46 MB