ML32061591
Contributor
Jeremy Collison Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Cohoes Flats
Albany, New York, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
bird is left of the center of the frame
Observation details
*Locally rare, but not unexpected, spotted a gull that was slightly smaller than the RBGUs it was with, seen well with a scope and was able to get pictures, was flushed by a fisherman and after flying around for a couple minutes it went upstream over the spillway but the RBGUs in the air confused me and it could've decided to come back without me seeing it Mantle color was darker than RBGU, bill longer than FRGU would be and all black, some blackish coloration on the head and grayish washing on the sides of the breast and neck, black on wingtips extensive, suspected second-cycle bird but I'm not very experienced with black-headed gulls not in breeding plumage, comments welcome
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7100
- ISO
- 560
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3550 pixels x 2367 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.68 MB