ML504823061

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

The scissor tailed flycatcher made its appearance around 1120 as it appeared to fly up from the canyon and landed in a euc (closest to the canyon, between the desert and rose gardens. It didn't stay there long as there was a buteo perched hidden in that tree. It then flew to a snag on top of a Ficus? like tree that was along the northern back edge of the rose garden to the east of the tall wooden T (which was 15'tall).. It stayed there briefly before flying over to a eucalyptus by the pedestrian bridge, perched for a few moments and then flew at a high rate of speed more than 200 yards to the WNW and disappeared from view. Stunning bird just over a foot long with light grayish head, back, snowy white with slight tint of gray on chest, orange sherbet color on flanks and richer salmon color underwing that we could see in the bins when it took flight. Striking long forked tail white with black on the tips We did not hear this bird vocalize. Tree it flew to back of rose garden (32° 43'51"N, 117° 8'44"W +/- 13' )

Technical information

Model

NIKON D850

Lens

500.0 mm f/5.6

ISO

280

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/2000 sec

Dimensions

2048 pixels x 1365 pixels

Original file size

645.28 KB