Contributor
Date
Location
West Chicago Prairie Forest Preserve
DuPage, Illinois, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Very patchy juvenile with striking dark-light contrast- more of an eye-catching checkerboard effect than can be seen in the photos. Heavy, dark and blotchy belly band; head appears light where washed out when headed towards low sun but shows much darker where visible in other shots. Looked very much like a light-phase Rough-legged at first glance. Strikingly different from one of the adult typical borealis pair that at one point flew directly beneath it (the borealis was much lower and they did not interact). Surely a visitor from elsewhere; was headed south. Photos.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 360
- Focal length
- 116 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 756 pixels x 593 pixels
- Original file size
- 81.38 KB