ML196870521
Contributor
Naresh Satyan Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Rio Hondo Spreading Grounds
Los Angeles, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Continuing adult and immature, in southern pond near Washington. Features I was able to observe today that I could not see well on my last visit when the birds were resting: the broad facial skin on the adult that makes the white on the forehead more of a V than a U, and a similar pattern on the juvenile; long straight sloped bills. The juvenile has a lot of black blending into the pink of the bill. They tolerated all the Canada geese around them, which is not something I've seen in my (limited) experience with trumpeter swans in nesting territory to the north where they always seemed to stay apart. The size difference between Canada geese and these swans is pretty remarkable as well, more than tundra swans.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 2500 pixels x 1876 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.43 MB