ML314080441
Contributor
Avery Fish Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Saint Michael's College Natural Area
Chittenden, Vermont, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Lifer!!! I am so psyched I saw this bird! Large, dark bird, with a similar wing pattern to a turkey vulture. I knew this was different that the red-tails that were around right away, as the wings were too dark to be a dark morph red-tail, and this bird was huge. So, my next though was bald. But the giss was wrong. It wasn’t flapping as “awkwardly” as a bald, and I saw no white pits, head, tail, or splotches. Then I though it was maybe a turkey vulture? But no. The wings were way to broad, and the head projected out too far. Photos revealed a golden nape!!! It was southbound circling the lower field, way up in the sky.
Technical information
- Model
- DMC-FZ1000
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 146 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 3840 pixels x 2160 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.1 MB