ML23148001
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
To be quite honest, I am not sure of this. See some pictures attached. This bird was down right on the edge of the Palm Springs WTP sewage pond, and never moved in the over 15 minutes I saw it. I had a horrible distance issue, looking through a chain-linked fence issue and a bad sun/lighting issue. I could only see it maybe being a female Northern Harrier if it is not a Cooper's Hawk. Please let me know if I am way off base on this. I just found it weird to hang down by the edge of the water like that for some time. To me that would initially seem more like behavior of a Northern Harrier, not a Cooper's Hawk, but the look of the bird especially what I could see of its breast and of its lack of white in the lower tail seems to point more to it being a Cooper's Hawk.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3200
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 200 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 682 pixels x 416 pixels
- Original file size
- 88.85 KB