ML171230571
Contributor
Naresh Satyan Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Santa Catalina Channel (LA Co., offshore species only)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Two Sabine's gulls. It is possible to zoom in close enough to have a few pixels per bird, but identifiable
Observation details
Large gulls with black hoods and black along leading edge of outer wing and white at trailing edge, forming characteristic M shape on upper wing. First bird close to the boat in OC waters (33.637815,-118.155925), flying west into LA county. As we got a couple of miles closer to Long Beach, I had four distant birds skimming low on the water flying into the wind, which I thought were going to be terns. I thought I saw black in the wings, so I got some photos which show the wing pattern and the dark hood.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3300
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/4000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2500 pixels x 1408 pixels
- Original file size
- 697.13 KB