ML22388771
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- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
1 male, 2 females. Photos of females. Male- Largish dark head, very white breast and sides,when it flew down the river could see brilliant white secondaries, white on neck extending around behind head, black back. White spot on face. Photos by Martin Reid of females to be posted later. From Martin: Initially we found two pairs of female/imm birds on the river among scores of other ducks and coots. The pairs were close to each other but not together. We then found a similar pair farther away (upstream). All of these pairs were mostly in the middle area of the river, but some occasionally moved over close to the south bank. Later, we found a male (apparently a lone bird) that was close to the south bank initially, but saw us and swam quickly downstream and to the middle of the river before disappearing behind a large stand of near-bank giant cane. The two photos attached show a pair close to the south bank (looking upstream in this image, thus the left side), and one of a pair while it was closer to the south bank than the north bank. NOTE: One of the two pairs (the middle pair) seemed to have smaller bills, and head shapes closer to that of Barrow's Goldeneye - but we are not claiming them as anything other than unusual-looking Common Goldeneyes. One bird in the closer pair had a bill that was almost all dull yellow-orange, being brighter at the tip. Based on structure it was an orange-billed Common Goldeneye.
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 5s
- Lens
- iPhone 5s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2
- ISO
- 40
- Focal length
- 4.2 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.2
- Shutter speed
- 1/120 sec
- Dimensions
- 900 pixels x 695 pixels
- Original file size
- 48.49 KB