Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Observation details
I find these to be my most challenging of all our GOM birds. They are compounded by a whole host of frequencies that are foreign to most land bound humans. All of the Laridae and some of the other species move about between the very recent increase in the number of boats lobstering in these waters. In the years that Chris and I have done this trip we have watched the number of lobsterman increase significantly and there is a small town working this far offshore these days. Modern technology allows us to visualize the bottom and know where to lobster. Birds moving into the flock is the most interesting to observe and as you move through all the long trawl lines there are distinct groups of birds foraging in the chum line and these flocks change from one end to the other. Looks like we cover almost 30+ miles in total. The last trawl we made brought us East of the Rock which I was some glad to see. Today was warm at 30 degrees. Past JBCBC's weather was not much different from this years because you must lobster and observe birds for science when the window presents itself.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3100
- ISO
- 450
- Focal length
- 380 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 4580 pixels x 3052 pixels
- Original file size
- 7.07 MB