ML606597351

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Media notes

The OMG moment (the first view I had of the bird)

Observation details

*RARE* Awesome. Appears to be only the 9th Baltimore City/County record, and only the 3rd for Baltimore City proper (at least in eBird). And first for Cherry Hill, of course ;) Found this beauty about a half-hour after sunrise, foraging on the ground with a female INBU and a couple of young SOSPs at the southwest corner of the cleared field off of the parking lot. The facial pattern sent a shock through my system, and I reveled in the flash of white outer tail feathers as the bird alighted into a small, loosely-leafed tree on the shoreline (subsequent reports documented the bird returning to this same tree throughout the day). After I sent word out, the bird dropped back down, and remained out of sight for close to an hour before reappearing all the way at the northwest end of the field. I and a few other observers then watched it explore the parking lot with a few HOSPs, before it launched back down the west side of the field. I then left to bird the rest of the park, but observed the bird again a couple of hours later engaging in the same routine (working its way up the western fenceline, then returning to its preferred tree by the SW corner, then returning to the ground and working its way up the fenceline again).

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7200

Lens

200.0-500.0 mm f/5.0-6.0

ISO

500

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/400 sec

Dimensions

4988 pixels x 3325 pixels

Original file size

11.38 MB