ML280834431
Contributor
Dana Siefer Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Little Storm Lake
Buena Vista, Iowa, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Small compact bird light tan in overall color. I did not catch any distinguishing markings as it flew by. Bird flew fast over my head and I only got a couple poor angle photos flying away, one showing bold black and white underwing covert markings. Both showing a portion of a heavy dark bill. One photo also appears to have white undertail coverts, black tailfeathers and white outer tail markings. I chose a northern shrike as opposed to a loggerhead because of the migration/winter range and photo appears to show some brownish coloration on the belly which might fit a brown 1st winter bird, however I did not see similar photos in ebird library. I also compared with field markings of Townsend's Solitare.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 1468 pixels x 978 pixels
- Original file size
- 920.28 KB