ML369885311
Contributor
Russ Morgan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Cold Springs NWR
Umatilla, Oregon, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Photo’s. Nice find by Jeff Harding and Jim Kopitzke earlier today. Juvenile dark (or dark- intermediate?)with diagnostic pointed central tail feathers, longish slender bill with dark tip, Was resting on the mudflats east of reservoir, periodically making runs at the ring-billed gulls, then returning to the flat to rest. On one return the jaeger landed fairly close to me. Some of the gull chases were relentless and long. All that changed when the peregrine decided to join the fray — changed the jaeger’s whole world. On one chase the falcon finally chased the jaeger to the water. It was still seen harassing gulls when I left.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/9.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 3824 pixels x 2549 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.78 MB