ML587328001
Contributor
Steve Heinl Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Ketchikan (town)
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
4th Ketchikan record - Christy Ruby called to tell me she'd seen a grackle in her yard at Strawberry Lane earlier in the morning (at about 4:00am). I arrived at 10:20am and we saw the bird fly up out of the tiny brushy creek that runs through the side of her lot. The bird sat up in a tree for about 15 minutes while we watched. It appeared to be a female, judging from the brownish (not glossy/colorful) wing coverts, back, and rump. Easily identified by its large size (much larger than a robin), thick bill with slightly curved culmen (much larger bill than exhibited by smaller blackbirds), glossy bluish head, yellow eye, and distinctly wedge-shaped tail.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 500.0 mm f/5.6
- ISO
- 1000
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 3849 pixels x 2566 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.27 MB