ML513699961
Contributor
Ethan Monk Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Landfill Loop Trail
Contra Costa, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Full adult--so not last winter's bird returning--, photographed. Significantly and obviously darker than surrounding Western Gulls (not shown very well in attached photos) with an inky, blackish mantle; classic “string of pearls”; glaring, pale eye; a tad of dark eyeliner (“mascara”); a banana yellow, Cook Inlet-shaped bill; and some spaced, moderately well separated, light brown, circular smudges on the neck and upper breast that did not run together. Noticed about 1035-1040, and present on the water until about the time I left, with two trips to and from the dump (each rather brief) in the time I was present.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 150.0-600.0 mm f/5.0-6.3
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 250 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/5000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2469 pixels x 1646 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.4 MB