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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Well seen over the course of two separate sightings, but unfortunately good photographic evidence does not exist. This is a very good bird for the Peloncillo CBC. Bird was frequenting wells in an oak tree, but was very flighty. It had returned to the original tree about 1.5 hours after original sighting. An adult male RNSA/YBSA making the ID all the more difficult out of range. Clean white nape with broad white supercilium and mustachial stripe. Throat was red to base of bill, but no red bled into black border of throat. Back showed two white stripes with shotgun patterning between and outside lines. Basically an ill-defined RNSA pattern. Spotting on back had a golden cast. No other sapsuckers nearby for immediate comparison, but all RNSA seen during the day showed clean black and white, two-striped pattern on back. Also notable was the amount the back spotting showed toward the bend of the wing when bird was observed from the side. Spotting approached much closer to the white wing patch than normally seen in RNSA. Two poor pics are included. These were taken with an iPhone through binocs, as neither of us were carrying our big cameras at time of original sighting.
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 5
- Lens
- iPhone 5 back camera 4.12mm f/2.4
- ISO
- 50
- Focal length
- 4.1 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.4
- Shutter speed
- 1/531 sec
- Dimensions
- 598 pixels x 448 pixels
- Original file size
- 154.29 KB