ML60624951

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

916.61 KB