ML567356161
Contributor
Lori Shuler Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Highline Lake SP
Mesa, Colorado, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Perched in one of the tall trees overlooking Mack Mesa. We originally thought this to be a juvenile/1st year RTHA. Doing some research in the bible, Sibley Birds, we believe it to be a 1st year/juvenile light Swainson's Hawk instead. In addition to other field marks, it fits this comment in Sibley's, "worn juvenile in spring looks white-headed". See 3rd photo. From afar we first thought it might be a Bald Eagle. Another bird book we have (NatGeo Field Guide to the Birds of North America) says this about SWHAs - "light-morph juveniles have dark moustachial stripe and conspicuous whitish eyebrows that meet on the forehead". This hawk fits that description.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P1000
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 359 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 2068 pixels x 1616 pixels
- Original file size
- 670.26 KB