ML21522261
Contributor
Adam Burnett Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Westmoreland Boat Launch
Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
On the Connecticut River, grouped tightly together and diving frequently. At first, we were just scanning with binoculars, and we passed these (quite distant) birds off as cormorants. After looking them over a second time, we noticed that something wasn't quite right about their shape, and that they seemed to have white faces. Luckily, we had our scope handy, and trained it on them. As we suspected, they were not cormorants, but breeding-plumaged Red-necked Grebes! Clearly identifiable through the scope, they had black caps, white faces, long, sharp yellowish bills, long rufous necks, and dull gray-brown bodies. I was also lucky to have my camera handy, so I got some decent digi-scoped documentation shots of these birds.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
- ISO
- 80
- Focal length
- 5.8 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 0.01 sec
- Dimensions
- 3264 pixels x 2448 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.44 MB