ML31501081
Contributor
Marshall Iliff Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Belle Isle Marsh Reservation
Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
**rare; not previously reported, but seen by a few others in subsequent days; second-year bird feeding in salt pan from west platform; plumage overall white, but a more dull white and not starkly white like the Snowies; blue lores and base to bill with dark bill tip, faint bluish coming in on back, greenish legs and feet, distant ice hunched over and slow, methodical feeding style contrasted with darts and dashes by Snowies nearby, dark wing tips show in photos (flew W towards Suffolk Downs at 7:45pm, flying right past platform calling with guttural 'kraaak')
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 40D
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
- ISO
- 1250
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/5000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2304 pixels x 1286 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.96 MB