ML399722011
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Tags
- Habitat
Media notes
No editing for color or light, not cropped. The gull is alone mid-field right in the photo by a snow-covered rock. Temperature is -20c, wind is NE 19 kph, light snow falling, about 1 1/2 hours before sunset. Looking west from bridge on RR 2211 about 2 miles north of Hwy 730 (dewdney ave)
Observation details
100% open water at the bridge on RR 2211 about 2 miles north of Dewdney Ave, west of the water treatment plant. This large-bodied, mostly white bird was foraging in the creek a short distance from a group of ducks and geese. At first i thought might be a Ross's goose but it wasn't acting like a goose. I think it is big enough to be a young Glaucous but it's awful early for one of them to be here. To me the bill looked too heavy to be an Iceland or Herring Gull and i didn't see black wing tips. I can't be sure the water is as deep where the gull is as where the geese are to measure how tall the gull is compared to them. Light snow was falling and the wind was about 19 kph making it hard to get a good photo.
Technical information
- Model
- DSC-HX350
- Lens
- 2254417/524283-215mm f/2.8-6.3
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 65.7 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 640 pixels x 480 pixels
- Original file size
- 64.1 KB