ML36702951

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

***Mega; State bird; flew in from the outer harbor almost overhead; After a brief fruitless scan I noticed I had just missed a call from Marshall Iliff. I picked up my phone and called him back. A minute or two into our conversation I picked out an obvious Brown Pelican naked eye bombing into the harbor from the outer harbor, nearly directly overhead. I dropped my phone and began screaming for Jeff to get on the bird, which he did. We both photographed it and watched it for approximately 15 seconds as it flew over 3 Dolphin Way and headed into the inner harbor. I picked Marshall back up, who was still on the phone, and already mobilizing to twitch. At a seemingly supernatural speed, he managed to teleport from West Roxbury to the New England Aquarium, where he quickly refound the bird in the inner harbor. Coordinating with Marshall, who directed us where the bird had landed, we drove around until we had a better vantage point and had decent looks at the bird in fading light on the water; many photos

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D

ISO

400

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/1600 sec

Dimensions

1898 pixels x 1218 pixels

Original file size

198.74 KB