ML288545961

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Media notes

ah yes, my best picture of this bird. Well at least you can make out the mask. The white behind-the-eye eyebrow was much more obvious in real life.

Observation details

Female. Came in with a couple of HOFI and landed in the Chinese tallow tree; the HOFIs went down to the feeder, this bird didn’t and just sat there like a minute looking around before flying off. The head was obscured when I first looked at it through binoculars, but even then I was pretty sure of its identity: its belly had those dark brown almost greenish steaks over a whiter-than-HOFI background that “part” differently than on HOFI (stronger streaking on the upper breast and flanks and very little streaking on the center of the breast down to the belly, vs typically more uniform streaking across the underparts on HOFI). Then I saw the head: quite distinct white supercilium extending far behind the eye, dark brown mask (auriculars) darker than crown, and white malar. Bill a nice neat triangle (or, as they like to say, “straight culmen”). Bird was silent. Florida bird for me. Yard birding this year has been fun 👌

Technical information

Model

iPhone X

Lens

iPhone X back dual camera 4mm f/1.8

ISO

40

Focal length

4 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/1.8

Shutter speed

0.05 sec

Dimensions

1304 pixels x 1011 pixels

Original file size

404.46 KB