ML591525831
Contributor
Derek Lecy Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District
Marin, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Male - 1
Media notes
SY male due to retained juvenile wing coverts and brown secondaries.
Observation details
Best looks I have ever had of this species. At least three, likely more. All foraging in the vegetation near the metal platform, at one point two chasing one another. One appeared to be an adult male, another a SY male, and a third bird was a female/immature that I didn't see well. I think there was an additional juvenile that flew briefly across my line of sight in an open window in the vegetation. At one point I watched a single bird near the base of the platform catch two minnows. Pretty amazing views of at that same bird out in the open. Bird photographed is aged as a SY male due to retained juvenile coverts.
Technical information
- Model
- ILCE-9
- Lens
- FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 5627 pixels x 3440 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.75 MB