ML129360021

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

My group and I initially found this bird while walking through the upper cut of the quarry. The bird flew from west to east, rather high overhead, calling. I looked up and saw a reddish/pink bird flying in and watched it land on the tall ridge to the right. The bird was rather skittish and moved several times along the top of the ridge but it called several times. After groups arrived on the scene, the bird remained difficult to pin down although everyone did see it at least in flight. In short, it was a mostly-pink finch with a bold, pale lower wingbar, streaked back of pink/brown, red head and rump, etc. I heard it call 7-8 times and it always was a very consistent, high and thin sparrow-like call note. This represents the first record for North America/Western Hemisphere.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7100

ISO

100

Focal length

300 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/4.0

Shutter speed

1/1000 sec

Dimensions

821 pixels x 547 pixels

Original file size

192.27 KB