ML48918391
Contributor
Richard Garrigus Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Pine Point Beach
Cumberland, Maine, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Wings broader based and less angled than on COTE, underwing pattern evident. Dark tips to outer rectrices without dark edge to outer tail as in COTE. Tail more deeply notched than COTE, even as it is lacking the longer tail streamers of breeding plumage.
Observation details
I pulled into the parking lot of the beach area and was stunned to see a tern immediately. I grabbed the camera and made initial shots just to document. As it turned out I was able to get increasingly better shots as it made its way up and down the beach. I observed it dive twice, successfully on one. I am submitting this as a FOTE, based on my research and will await confirmation.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7100
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 4800 pixels x 3200 pixels
- Original file size
- 7.76 MB