ML447895241
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Flying
Observation details
**Very rare; brought inland by Hurricane Sandy - At least 3 birds were seen off-and-on throughout the day, flying around over the river and attempting to forage among the thousands of TRES. One bird had ratty wing feathers and the other two had very nice, crisp feathers. Small, dark storm-petrels with rounded white rumps; pal carpal bar along uppersides of wings; deep and springy wingbeats as the birds zig-zagged above the river. Longer-winged than Wilson's SP. Slightly notched tail ruled out Band-rumped SP. A very strange sight to see was a number of Leach’s Storm-Petrels that nearly blended in with the Tree Swallows, only standing out because of their slightly larger size and nighthawk-like flight. One individual had particularly ratty wing feathers while the other two were crisp. We had just seen our lifer Leach’s on a Paulagic trip out of Delaware back in August so it was neat to see them in a totally different setting, on the Susquehanna River. It was also nice having a fresh idea of how Leach’s, Wilson’s, and Band-rumped look and behave to be able to confidently say these birds were certainly Leach’s. Ramsey, Jason, and Andy who observed the river all day gave Leach’s Storm-Petrel a conservative count of three but there could easily have been a handful more passing by out on the river.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS REBEL T2i
- ISO
- 1600
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1079 pixels x 674 pixels
- Original file size
- 140.71 KB