ML157718861

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Found by Oscar Wilhelmy just moments before I arrived. Female, probably a first winter bird just beginning to show adult plumage with limited black centers to scaps and mantle, limited rufous stripes developing in tertials, but generally buffy overall with pale underparts, pale greenish legs, all black bill, very thin broken eyering, somewhat paler at the base of the bill than the rest of the head. Bird was associating with a Lesser Yellowlegs which it was about the same size, but not as slender as yellowlegs. Both of them took off and flew west around 7:30. I happened to be looking at the bird when it first took off; wings were clean bright white underneath. I stopped back briefly a little over an hour later and the whole field was shorebird-free.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS-1D X Mark II

Lens

EF600mm f/4L IS II USM +2x III

ISO

800

Focal length

1200 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/8.0

Shutter speed

1/1600 sec

Dimensions

1000 pixels x 667 pixels

Original file size

526.52 KB