ML30522361
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Media notes
This photo nicely conveys the rich color and texture of the top-side (including the head) of this bird, its strikingly long legs for a calidris sandpiper, and the nature of the markings on its rear underside (i.e., behind the legs), right up to the undertail area. Of potential interest to the aging of this bird may be the decidedly grayish wing coverts as shown on the folded wing. A problem with drawing any conclusions about aging on the basis of these feathers as shown in this photo, though, is that due to poor focus and poor light on this part of the bird, neither the state of wear nor the shape of the tips of these greater coverts can be ascertained. Subsequent commentary will be provided in discussion of another of the photos herewith (i.e., ML30522371).
Observation details
The Curlew Sandpiper was seen on or near the shoreline of this small island, at a considerable distance from the viewing birders who wisely avoided efforts at overly close approach. By means of digiscoping, I obtained far more detailed photos than I could have had using my zoom telephoto lens (75-300mm) attached to my DSLR camera. For digiscoping I hand-held my DSLR camera with 50mm lens to the eyepiece of my spotting scope, which afforded me some very close-up images of the bird. The lens on the camera was set at infinity, and the scope was used for focusing.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 10D
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 50 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/3.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/180 sec
- Dimensions
- 1660 pixels x 1245 pixels
- Original file size
- 344.63 KB