ML26548411

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Came to view the Ruff reported earlier by Brian Daniels. I found it in the same pond below Fisher's Gulch foraging with a flock of dowitchers. It was approximately the same size and shape as the dowitchers it was associating with. Head was small compared with the dowitchers. Bill was relatively short and somewhat decurved. The bird readily stood out from the dowitchers owing to its foraging style of either swishing its bill from side to side in the water or picking at the surface. The dowitchers were doing their typical up and down bobbing by comparision. The breast and belly were a uniform buffy color that had a stronger contrast and demarcation with the white undertail compared to the dowitchers which had a more dingy coloration down the sides and belly that graduated into the white of the undertail. I thought I could make out a short weak eye line on the bird but owing to the low afternoon sun, severe backlight and glare off the pond my views of the finer details and color were very poor. Identification primarily made based on shape and size.

Technical information

Model

E-300

ISO

400

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1462 pixels x 1097 pixels

Original file size

822.3 KB