ML419251601

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Observation details

Amazing, shocking find. We were driving along on Mersea Rd 2 toward the lake, showing my cousin David a “typical” afternoon of birding, and just after the intersection with Mersea Rd 21, I stopped the car and said to Emma, “I don’t think that was an Eastern Kingbird or Robin…” Emma and David had no idea what I was referring to because we were really just casually driving around and talking at the time. Sure enough, we backed the car up to find a Gray Kingbird in all its glory, sitting on the roadside hydro line. It would be seen by a dozen or so local birders within about an hour of finding it, then surprisingly, by many other birders over the following two days. I used the Couture Dyke hotspot because we found it about 100m north of this trail at the edge of Hillman Marsh, and it eventually flew out of sight over Couture Dyke trail.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7000

ISO

1600

Focal length

300 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/13.0

Shutter speed

1/2500 sec

Dimensions

1811 pixels x 1358 pixels

Original file size

482.05 KB