ML128618261
Contributor
Soham Mehta Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Sunnyvale WPCP (please use a more specific hotspot where possible)
Santa Clara, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Lifer. As soon as I entered, I searched all electric towers to the left. Spotted a distant falcon on top of tower #4 to the left. Was hard to see clearly from the distance but brownish back suggested Prairie so I went back to my car to get my 1.4x extender, and it had moved to tower #5 when I got back. As I walked towards it, it flew further to tower #6, possibly due to a person with a dog ahead of me. Finally reached base of tower #6 and got clear pictures. Graceful falcon, pale underparts with chocolate brown streaks on the side. Face also much paler than Peregrine's, sort of like Merlin's. After 20 minutes, it took off heading north and I managed to get a flight shot.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4x III
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 700 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1952 pixels x 1280 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.01 MB