Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - X
Observation details
Broad, notched tail showing iridescent blue. Sooty gray breast and belly. Black maxilla, orange lower mandible. White supercilium, broad dark grey/black stripe going back from the eye, white area below black eye stripe that wraps around below the bill. Iridescent green back, nape, and crown. Continuing bird seen in the Aldea area for several weeks, first reported in October. At the time of this sighting, the temperature was 3C, but there have been several nights in the last week where the temperature dropped below -10C. Staked out a feeder at a private residence where the bird was known to frequent in the previous days. Bird arrived after 40 minutes, drank from the feeder for about 30 seconds, then perched next to an adobe wall in the sun and posed for pictures.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 3463 pixels x 2606 pixels
- Original file size
- 703.7 KB