ML364104761

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

Possibly more, part of the ~175 flock of sterna that banked into the harbor from the outer islands, threading the needle between Georges and Lovells. As they flew by, I heard at least one ROST calling, almost SEPL-like. In reviewing pics: in the shot with the lighthouse in the background, I'm getting to 11 ROST, which in a quick look at other pics seems to be the high count, and found a 12th bird in a different pic. There are ROST in almost every photo I took but hard to know which would be double counts so I'm going with high count in one picture and then adding one bird I'm sure wasn't in that photograph. Small sample size, but in the shot with 11 ROST there are 42 birds overall, so roughly 25% of that small group. If the overall species split were to carry over to the hundreds of sterna I saw moving by that day, that'd be over 100 ROST on the move, which would be pretty cool; 12 in Suffolk is neat enough though.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D500

Lens

500.0 mm f/5.6

ISO

250

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/3200 sec

Dimensions

4771 pixels x 3181 pixels

Original file size

6.86 MB