ML154017531

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

early, my first time seeing this species in Maine in April, perhaps part of the recent incursion of early migrants and southern overshoots that have been occurring in the northeast since the weekend. Picked up in flight before diving into a thick bush - never observed well. Only identified as a large dark (thinking darker than HETH) thrush in flight, more like a small robin than any Catharus. When perched just the mantle color was enough to assume WOTH: a saturated red, lacking any olive or brown tones on Hermit or Swainson's (or Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's). I had a very obscured view of the face but could make out white around the eye and on the auriculars, with black stippling reminiscent of a tropical wren (think Central American Thryothorus spp). Never had any view of the front of the bird to see spot pattern... One very poor phone-through-binocular photo attached:

Technical information

Model

iPhone X

Lens

iPhone X back dual camera 4mm f/1.8

ISO

20

Focal length

4 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/1.8

Shutter speed

1/224 sec

Dimensions

1511 pixels x 898 pixels

Original file size

654.7 KB