ML397265521
Contributor
Gautam Apte Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Race Point
Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
ventral
Observation details
Very late in the morning, I had packed up my scope and was about to leave when this shot through on my last binocular scan. General impression was of a fairly small shearwater, extremely dark blackish above and clean white below. Puffinus proportions evident throughout the 30 seconds I watched it - head/tail projection about equal beyond wings, relatively thick tail, no substantial bill. Flight consistent with Manx; very active dynamic soars, often tilting past vertical on shears and rising quite high at the top of each arc. Made a few passes out beyond the rips and then went very far offshore and looked to continue east. Very fun to watch in the ripping winds. Some poor/distant photos.
Technical information
- Model
- DC-G9
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1209 pixels x 806 pixels
- Original file size
- 135.07 KB