ML129497101

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Continuing rarity found on 1 Nov by Mark Kudrav. Seen with Calvin Lou today. A thrush-sized bird with rather uniform plain gray-brown upperparts and densely spotted and streaked underparts. The wings were somewhat darker than the upperparts on the standing bird and there were two thin off-white wing bars and whitish edging to the wing coverts and tertials. The tail was somewhat darker than the back. The eye was yellow-orange and there was a dark malar stripe bordering a whitish throat. The legs and bill were dark. The bird foraged actively in a plover-like style (quick runs and hops and then pauses to look for prey) along the edge of the trail, next to the rocks and short vegetation. It occasionally swept its bill from side to side in the substrate, apparently to try to find prey items. I took numerous digiscoped photos - one is below.

Technical information

Model

COOLPIX S9300

ISO

250

Focal length

9.3 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/4.7

Shutter speed

1/250 sec

Dimensions

1929 pixels x 1417 pixels

Original file size

458.68 KB