ML308866881
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I initially observed this bird perched on the tall Pines bordering the park on the east side. It also briefly perched on an adjacent large tower. The bird briefly disappeared behind the pines then flew back out flying over my head then down into the park where it landed in a sycamore. The bird then flew from the sycamores into the pines in the adjacent neighborhood on the west side of the park. We observed it drop down onto the grass and catch what appeared to be a mole or gopher, and then flew into an adjacent Pine where we watched it eat the rodent over the course of 20 to 30 minutes before flying back down into the park and disappearing. This was an overall small Bueto that was fairly similar in size to a Red-shouldered Hawk, maybe slightly smaller. The head was overall fairly round, with a darkish cap and dark “mustache”, as well as a whitish throat. The bird also had a brownish eye, and mostly yellow bill with a dark hooked tip. The breast was an overall mottled reddish brown color with a white base, with mottling becoming more sparse as well as more barred towards the belly and flanks, giving way to a mostly white belly and vent. The wings and back were an overall medium brown color with most feathers becoming paler towards the edges. In flight the bird had a very dark almost black border on the wings extending from the primaries down through the trailing edge of the wing all the way to the tail. We remarked that this edging was somewhat reminiscent of a Gray Hawk. The underwing was overall lightly patterned, with light brownish mottling becoming lighter and more barred towards the trailing edge of the wing. The tail feathers were also strikingly marked with black and white bands.
Technical information
- Model
- ILCE-7RM3
- Lens
- FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 379 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/4000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3629 pixels x 2473 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.73 MB