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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Near SW corner of Troutman Lake along shoreline. Flushed from small patch of grass while on my ATV. Immediately recognized it as a Locustella warbler by the overal brownish color, long bill, and long, broad rounded tail with clearly graduated tail feathers. Slightly rusty tone to brownish rump. Quite yellowish below with indistinct, blurry, olive streaks to sides of breast. Not sharply streaked like many others in this genus. Dirty yellow-olive flanks. Short, uniformly brownish wings. Mantle brownish and indistinctly streaked with yellow, not nearly as heavily streaks as Pallas’s for example. Flat crown and long, bill. Bill fleshy-orange, especially the mandible. Bright yellow throat. Yellowish eyebrow offset by olive-brown eyeliner. Great photos. Not acting like a Locustella; sitting in the open for minutes at a time after being flushed from the grasses. Must’ve just come in off the ocean on light west winds. Photos
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7100
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 140 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1180 pixels x 787 pixels
- Original file size
- 185 KB