ML311983941
Contributor
Mike Sylvia Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Ardfry Peninsula
Galway, Connaught, Ireland
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Lucky find. Got to spend 40 minutes with this bird diving in a small cove. Photographs and video. Small grebe but larger than Little. Black, white, and grey plumage. Head angular with sharp point at forehead, flat crown, and another sharp turn at the nape. Black on the crown extending down below the red eye forming a sharp line. Bright white cheeked. Thick black line extending on back on neck from nape to mantle. Flanks fluffy white mottled with grey flecks. Black back to tail. Upperwings all medium grey with large white secondaries wing patch. Underwings all white. Bill straight evenly tapering to a sharp point.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7500
- ISO
- 1000
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/4.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 1680 pixels x 1120 pixels
- Original file size
- 319.1 KB