ML477871351
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Media notes
Ruff with peeps in the foregound
Observation details
Continuing. Larger bird than everything else around there, the Greater Yellowlegs, the Dowitchers and the peeps. Dark on back and top and very light underneath (the throat, breast and belly). Dark grayish long legs and a short bill, compared to Yellowlegs and Dowitchers. What struck me the most was its posture and behavior. It was standing up very straight when I first saw it and there was a sharp contrast between the dark top and light breast and belly (a little bit like a penguin in contrast). It moved very rapidly at times, and two Dowitchers hurried to keep up with it. The Yellowlegs were probably about the same length, but they were bent over foraging most of the time and the Ruff was very much upright much of the time, so it seemed much taller. I only got terrible distant photos.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R5
- Lens
- RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1119 pixels x 799 pixels
- Original file size
- 446.15 KB