ML145900771
Contributor
Westport Seabirds Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Westport--offshore south of Grays Canyon
Grays Harbor, Washington, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Individual number one, shows a darker head and breast and more light margins on back feathers than second individual.
Observation details
We found two immature birds with a large aggregation of 90 Black-footed and 5 Laysan Albatross at a trawler that had just finished a long tow and had hauled its net onboard. There were numerous small rockfish in the water that had probably popped out of the trawl net as it was being retrieved. Over the course of 70 minutes that we spent in the area, we encountered the two birds regularly. The last time we encountered them, they were just over the county line, in Pacific County. We had the opportunity to study both at close range.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D5000
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 2360 pixels x 1276 pixels
- Original file size
- 488.62 KB