ML311049791
Contributor
Ian Davies Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
The Kittansett Club, Marion
Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
***mega; one of several in the northeast today due to Tropical Storm Isaias. Dark-backed tern with white forehead, dark underside to primaries, dark tail. Photographed extensively. After scanning for over an hour hoping for this species, I picked this bird up at 7:19 right off of the point (~100 meters out), heading west. It drifted southwest into the wind and then turned and came DIRECTLY overhead, within 20 feet, and continued ENE towards the mouth of the canal. I lost it to sight quickly, and didn’t see again. This or another bird seen by Peter Trimble across Buzzards Bay shortly after.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
- Lens
- EF500mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2769 pixels x 1787 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.46 MB