ML394637571

Age and sex

Immature Unknown sex - 1

Observation details

Juvenile. Photos. First noted standing on a frozen pond (43.847526, -66.128102) as I drove past. I backed up to look and couldn't see much detail due to severe backlighting by morning sun. It was being harassed by 2 American Crows. I heard gallinule screaming while it was being chased by the crows. I then went to get Ervin Olsen and walked with him from his house around to the eastern side of the pond for a better sun angle. Photos attached to the checklist are those taken from the eastern side of the pond. Rick Brown arrived and saw it from the road. Ervin and I then walked back to the road and the gallinule must have flown off because it wasn't present once we arrived to the road. All the Birds of Nova Scotia by Ian McLaren (covers to the end of 2010) notes that 43 had been found in Nova Scotia at the time of writing. Here are the sightings after the end of 2010: July-Aug 5, 2011 -- Sable River, Shel (ad.) Oct 6, 2011 -- Shag Harbour, Shel (juv.) Aug 9-11, 2012 -- Smiths Cove, Dig early Dec, 2012 -- Canso, Guys June 1, 2013 -- Bon Portage Island, Shel (corpse) June 20, 2015 -- Kingsburg Peninsula, Lun (ad.) Jan 12, 2016 -- Frog Pond, Halifax, Hfx (ad.) Feb 24, 2016 -- Brier Island, Dig (corpse) Jun 20, 2016 -- Spryfield, Hfx (ad.) Nov 20, 2017 -- Brookfield, Col (juv.) Nov 20, 2017 -- Tangier, Hfx (corpse) Dec 12, 2017 -- Sheet Harbour, Hfx May 21-25, 2019 -- Cape Sable Island, Shel (ad.) Apr 25-16, 2020 -- Sable Island, Hfx (ad.)

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7000

Lens

300.0 mm f/4.0

ISO

500

Focal length

300 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/7.1

Shutter speed

1/800 sec

Dimensions

1087 pixels x 724 pixels

Original file size

276.1 KB