ML334023341

Age and sex

Unknown age, Female - 1

Behaviors

Foraging or eating

Media notes

Flight feathers appear to be stripped to the shafts on one wing.

Observation details

Continuing, plus another female! Photos of the continuing bird show that it clearly has a compromised right wing. When I last saw the bird in late April, it was flushed by an eagle and was capable of flight, but showed a large gap in the flight feathers of one wing. The second bird, also a female, surprised me when it flew in with 12 Mallards at 7:59 and settled in the back. This one had solidly structural wings with no damage/molt visible. I was able to watch it touch down and immediately double-check that the original female was still in the foreground. Photo shows similar size to Mallard, but longer tail, slimmer wings, and slimmer overall body. Could it possibly be the female that was at Walt Rd 4/12, still hanging around?

Technical information

Model

Pixel

ISO

280

Focal length

4.7 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/2.0

Shutter speed

16667/1000000 sec

Dimensions

3036 pixels x 4048 pixels

Original file size

2.11 MB