ML292859981
Contributor
Paul Heveran Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Green Lane Park--Church Rd. Bird Sanctuary
Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
Observation details
***Mega rare, perhaps 3rd county record but the first chaseable one. Apparently one was at the reservoir in the late 90s/early 2000s, and one was photographed on the Philadelphia-Montgomery county border this January. A great find by Kevin Crilley! This was a small goose with a dark brown head, dark bill with pink band or "saddle", fairly pale below, and obvious pale fringing all across the upperparts. Photos show the tail to be grayish, fading to white towards the tip. More solid gray areas are visible in photos of the wings when preening, and one photo just barely shows a bit of pink leg poking out from the belly feathers. I observed a bit of the bright pink leg better through the scope. A lifer for me!
Technical information
- Model
- Pixel
- ISO
- 145
- Focal length
- 4.7 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/2.0
- Shutter speed
- 16667/1000000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3036 pixels x 4048 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.13 MB