ML182321191

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Large warbler showing yellow undertail and stomach, full, vivid white eye ring, gray hood encompassing head all the way around throat unlike Nashville Warbler, olive green back and wings. First found & photographed yesterday (13 Oct 2019) by June McDaniels and Cindy Hamilton; spotted this evening by Karen Roberts in an astonishing feat while it meandered through an absurdly dense thicket with loads of interweaving above-ground roots and leaf litter, roughly 30 feet east of the bench about midway down the Raptor Tail (north side). It never came out in the open, walking on the flooded edge of the roots & trunks, hopping up once or twice onto a branch. It took probably 15 minutes from Karen's first sighting before I finally got a look at the full face, and maybe another 20 minutes after before I pulled off an identifiable photograph, as dusk was closing in. Viewed with Karen & Keith Roberts, and Tommy & Tom Maloney. The switch from NE to SW winds over the weekend caused significantly high water, reaching both sides of the trail and overtopping it for a good chunk further east.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 6D Mark II

Lens

EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM

ISO

12800

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/400 sec

Dimensions

6240 pixels x 4160 pixels

Original file size

9.24 MB