ML38924161
Contributor
Forest & Kim Starr Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Haleakala Observatories
Maui, Hawaii, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Here's an image of the dead one
Observation details
Actually saw 2, but one was dead and smashed on the road on the Air Force property. The other was seeking shelter in shrubs and rocks at the top of the hill by Pan-STARRs. It flushed erratically as we approached the area and we lost sight of it in the boulders below. Every fall young Leiothrix end up stranded at the summit. We have previously seen a large flock of them (largest this century? - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S25700122 ) aimlessly working their way up the mountain, and have heard accounts and stories of them arriving and dying on the high summits, but this was the first time we witnessed one (two) of them at HO.
Technical information
- Model
- DMC-FZ70
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 3.6 mm
- Flash
- Flash fired
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/200 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.44 MB