ML60624941
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
Immature bird seen in dense "natural area". While I was in the natural area I heard this hawk fly straight in with this loud wing whose and snap noise as it raced into a perched. I slipped around all the vegetation and got some photos of the bird perched. It was very wary of me and quickly flew out of the area. I ran out of the trees to find the bird circling and being pursued and harassed by two Great-tailed Grackles. The bird soared and then flew more direct up into the pines near the upper lake. The bird's smaller size, moustacial stripe, yellow cere, dark spots oriented into vertical streaks down the flanks, dark broad distal tail band with thin dark bands to the undertail coverts, broad wings, and other features seen in the photos lead to the identification of this as a Broad-winged Hawk.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1500 pixels x 1000 pixels
- Original file size
- 918.44 KB