ML141659991
Contributor
Sarah Roeske Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Canyon View Preserve
Placer, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Media notes
One of our party (Gary Wells) went back 2-19-19 to look for the owl - found him! Hooting, same hoot as day before.
Observation details
heard not seen by all 4 of us (Karl Mertz, Sarah Roeske, Shannon Wells and Gary Wells) - persistent hoot, for many minutes, but slower rate of single hoot than Sawhet owl. Gary Wells stalked it and determined it was somewhere in the black oak - ponderosa mixed forest on the E-facing slope. I listened to various owl calls on on the Mccauley library and the Northern Pygmy Owl call was spot on. This area is on the edge of the North Fork of the American River canyon. Low snow level from major winter storm that ended the day before may have driven the bird downhill.
Technical information
- Model
- DC-ZS70
- ISO
- 80
- Focal length
- 129 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.4
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 1088 pixels x 1088 pixels
- Original file size
- 613.18 KB