ML343226591
Contributor
Bob Fogg Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Cape Island--CMP--Coral Ave. dune crossing
Cape May, New Jersey, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
About 30 minutes after higher concentrations of shearwaters were popping up and the weather was shifting to light rain, a few Arctic Terns flew out of the bay. Two birds were flying together over the rips. The first bird caught my eye as quite interesting being pale winged above, moving up and down in arcs with triangular like wings (tight to the body). Mike Lanzone recognized them as Arctic Terns. They flew around the point and east up the beach. Photographs show the pale 'frosted' upper wings, with a tight dark border on the trailing edge. Red bill. Likely more. Difficult to consistently get on birds. Easterly winds were converging onto the point from north and south as a system started to move in.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 563 pixels x 517 pixels
- Original file size
- 180.5 KB