ML287854051
Contributor
Becky Turley Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
Orange, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Found by Brian Sandstrom earlier in the day. First seen briefly in the muted tidal ponds south of Wintersburg channel. Flew out toward tidal gates and circled back to pocket pond. Watched it for about 50 min.. It started to vocalize, soft calls, then flew off toward tidal gates again, circled back to muted tidal ponds. It remained there for approx 10 min., then it lifted off and flew north out of view. Large white body, dusky head, long neck. Black and pink bill.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/160 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.14 MB