ML467801791
Contributor
D Krajnovich Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Twenty Lakes Basin Loop
Mono, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I heard and then located a Spotted Sandpiper near Greenstone Lake at 9:30 a.m. The attached photograph pertains to this individual. In "Birds of Yosemite and the East Slope," David Gaines describes Spotted Sandpiper as a "rare summer resident to treeline on east slope." I was surprised to find one this high. At 12:30 p.m., I saw another Spotted Sandpiper fly across one of the small lakes just to the west of Steelhead Lake. Since this sighting was a full mile from the first, I guessed that it was a second individual, but I cannot rule out that it was one and the same bird. NOTE: On the eBird map I found four other 2022 reports of Spotted Sandpiper near Saddlebag Lake -- so I guess it is not that rare.
Technical information
- Model
- DMC-FZ200
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 108 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 2048 pixels x 1360 pixels
- Original file size
- 922.41 KB