ML610870361

Age

Not specified

Sex

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Observation details

215,7 Uhhhhhhh?!?!? Complete surprise is an understatement. Even after yesterday’s sighting at Montrose I had zero hopes it would show up here given that the downtown skyscrapers are known for deflecting southbound hawks to the west. Just finished counting the crow flock and began walking along the south side of the Shedd. Suddenly all the crows appeared over the Shedd with a huge hawk in the middle. Put my bins up and damn near had a heart attack. Scrambled to get my camera up and got a couple pics before it disappeared west over the Field Museum with its crow flock escort. 15-30 second total observation, so it was here and gone. Obvious dark morph buteo with very long wings (almost seabird like), white underside to the tail, and big ol gape. See pics (only edit was cropping). Relocation efforts here sadly unsuccessful, hopefully will be found again. State bird #382

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS REBEL T2i

ISO

800

Focal length

160 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

15833/39582501 sec

Dimensions

1518 pixels x 1205 pixels

Original file size

188.89 KB