ML563283641
Contributor
Tom Reed Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Cape Island--CMP--Coral Ave. dune crossing
Cape May, New Jersey, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
**rare/high; apparently part of ongoing event at regional level. group of 3 initially detected when distant and high to the northeast at 10:12; at first soaring on their own, then joining vulture kettle, gaining even more altitude and then drifting w/nw. never close and increasingly quite high, but fair looks through scope. dark, skinny-bodied, raptor-like with fairly long/tapered wings, fan-shaped tail, long neck; soaring or gliding most of the time on flat wings with just occasional short bursts of measured wingbeats, which occasionally showed the pale upperwing coverts. subsequently seen by others at a couple other locations nearby. very poor photos.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 2048 pixels x 1365 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.01 MB