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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
***Mega. Continuing rarity, still in the same area where it was found yesterday. Awesome bird, and very cooperative. Foraging mostly along the roadside, often perching up on wires over road and occasionally up onto stone silo. Upperparts brownish-gray, underparts heavily washed cinnamon-buff. Mask indistinct, lores dark, pale supercilium buff above lores blending to white behind eye. Wing coverts and flight feathers crisply edged pale but rather worn. Mouth lining yellowish. Short tail with thick black terminal band bleeding slightly up towards rump and white base giving bright white rumped effect in flight and when bird would flick wings up while foraging. Foraged along roadsides and in grass. Would stand still for long periods of time, only bobbing tail occasionally, then jump forward to grab an insect, then run several feet away before repeating the process. From O. o. oenanthe by uniform cinnamon wash. Probably a HY/SY bird, not sure if AHY female can be ruled out.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1721 pixels x 1002 pixels
- Original file size
- 104.92 KB