ML362434661
Contributor
Louis Bevier Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Shawmut Dam, Kennebec River
Somerset, Maine, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
A juvenile was foraging with yellowlegs on the gravel bars downstream. This was a medium smaller shorebird, smaller than Lesser Yellowlegs. It had a thin, needle-like black beak, was white below and on supercilium. When it tipped forward, I could see the blacker and browner upperparts that had prominent gold bars longitudinally along scapulars. Its legs were bright orangish-yellow. The bird fed by picking left and right at the surface of the water and rocks as it moved in a sometimes rapid and erratic way. Given this species is now well on migration, it is unlikely it was a local bird, but as I had hoped they had nested after seeing copulation earlier in the summer at the Flood Farm. This was a very bright and fresh-looking individual.
Additional species
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 12 Pro
- Lens
- iPhone 12 Pro back triple camera 4.2mm f/1.6
- ISO
- 64
- Focal length
- 4.2 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/1.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/121 sec
- Dimensions
- 2423 pixels x 1363 pixels
- Original file size
- 985.66 KB