ML582555271

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

**rare, 4th June record for New Brunswick and 1st June record for Westmoreland county according to eBird. At 8:13pm, I spotted a relatively small gull sporting a black head, fairly dark gray back, and white eye arcs. At first, this gull was foraging distantly on the tidal mudflats (coordinates: 45.836612,-64.282877), so I wasn’t able to see bill or eye arc size. But towards dark, it flew towards me and I was able to observe the wing pattern and snap some pictures. Unfortunately it landed behind a bank 200+ meters off the saltmarsh straight out from where I was standing on the dyke and I wasn’t able to relocate it. Identification: Smaller gull (smaller than nearby Ring-billed Gulls) with dark gray back, black hood, and broad white eye arcs. The gull had small black wingtips with white bands, broad white trailing wing edge, white underwing (eliminating LAGU and BHGU), and gray/black outer primaries (eliminating BHGU, BOGU, and SAGU).

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS R7

Lens

EF400mm f/5.6L USM

ISO

800

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

899 pixels x 664 pixels

Original file size

117.12 KB