ML138414721
Contributor
Laura Ellis Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Horseshoe Reservoir Yavapai County
Yavapai, Arizona, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
lightened
Observation details
Very overall dark Merlin. Almost solid black tail with a few very narrow separated strips of white. (Eliminating Taiga and other subspecies which have bold, wider and solid across white tail bands. Underwing had sparse spotting (small round spots) which indicates a “Black” vs the Taiga’s strongly squared “checkerboard” pattern. IMHO it looks to have a smaller, reduced length suppercillium, also indicating a Black. It was along the western shore of Horseshoe Reservoir ( according to my cameras gps it was 3 tenths of a mile north of the Maricopa County line. We watched it fly a long distance south - far enough in our opinion to have flown into Maricopa County.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/9.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1063 pixels x 765 pixels
- Original file size
- 171.78 KB