ML252434501
Contributor
Steve Summers Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Evaporation Ponds (KER Co.)
Kern, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
When I arrived the skimmer was sitting on a mudflat in Cell 3 with gulls and shorebirds. A very typical black and white tern-like bird with a large red black-tipped bill. Much of the time it sat with its bill open, as were the gulls, trying to cool off I suppose. It did get up and fly around a couple of times and once appeared to try to feed by briefly skimming the water in flight as is typical for this species. This is the same area where a pair of Black Skimmers nested and hatched three young in July–August 1986. I believe this is the third Kern Co. record and the first since 1990.
Technical information
- Model
- DC-ZS70
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 129 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.4
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1920 pixels x 1080 pixels
- Original file size
- 298.78 KB