Contributor
Rick Heil Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Plum Island (please use more refined location)
Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Remarkable; very rare here; First observed by Bill Gette and birding group earlier in the day; flock on the ocean 3/4 to 1 mile off Lot 6; 12 adults, 2 -1W; although distant, it was apparent that these were not Mute Swans; with some difficulty the heavy all black bills (lacking knobs) of the adults could be discerned, along with the comparatively short and straighter necks; the two juveniles showed characteristic all pale pinking bills (can be seen in at least one photo) and more tan less dark plumage than young Mutes. Of interest, there is a record of 17 from Plum Island sixty-one years ago, on 20 November 1958 (Stanwood, Knight; Birds of Massachusetts by Veit & Petersen, 1993)
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 6 Plus
- Lens
- iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2
- ISO
- 32
- Focal length
- 4.2 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.2
- Shutter speed
- 1/399 sec
- Dimensions
- 244 pixels x 192 pixels
- Original file size
- 23.96 KB