ML270850071
Contributor
Jeremy Bensette Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
CA-ON-ESSE - Leamington - Hyatt Park (home)
Essex, Ontario, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Immature light morph (maybe 1 yr old as per moulting tail and wings?), flying low overhead. Long slender slightly dihedral wings with dark grey flight feathers, pale underside with concentrated brown streaking around upper chest. In the split second before lifting my bins I pondered Northern Harrier then Golden Eagle, both of which did not seem like a great match. Mind officially blown when it registered that I was looking at a Swainson’s Hawk, my second one ever, flying right over my yard. I had been outside for about one minute at this point. It would be caught up with a few minutes later by Kate Derbyshire by my instruction - also perfectly timed - as it flew over the 7-11 store on Erie St.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 1422 pixels x 948 pixels
- Original file size
- 200.96 KB