ML170181561

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

This is what I posted to Carolinabirds: The Thick-billed Murre continues to be ridiculously easy to observe at the jetties at Huntington Beach State Park. However neither I nor the few other birders out today found Razorbills or Red-necked Grebes. But as I was giving up and leaving, I was rewarded with a Dovekie between the jetties, riding the tidal current, which had just reversed itself to outgoing. A birder who was leaving the jetty as I arrived reported a Little Gull among the Bonapartes, but I did not relocate it, and most of the few remaining Bonies soon moved on. There was one single Bonapartes that shadowed every move of the Murre for the couple of hours I was there. Every now and then it would snatch some prey that had been driven to the surface by the Murre's underwater foraging.

Technical information

Model

E995

ISO

100

Focal length

29 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/4.9

Shutter speed

2/415 sec

Dimensions

1297 pixels x 973 pixels

Original file size

191.85 KB