ML612711752

Age and sex

Immature Female - 1

Observation details

Long-staying 1cy female still in hedge alongside beach. Barely showed in first hour, with one fleeting glimpse as it moved between pittosporum bushes, but eventually gave itself up well around noon and again subsequently. Rather drab and nondescript until seen well, when e.g. distinct yellowy-green rump, faint lemon/yellow markings on neck sides, throat and breast, double white wing-bar (more prominent but shorter on median coverts) and finely streaked flanks all noted. White visible in tail sides but exact pattern hard to determine in field views. Mostly kept within dense cover in lower levels of bushes, perhaps because of very strong and cold NW wind, but when weather brighter it became more active and obvious, occasionally dropping onto rocks on beach or hopping among succulents in search of invertebrates, and several times even flycatching. Photographed

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS R5

Lens

RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM

ISO

800

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/7.1

Shutter speed

1/4000 sec

Dimensions

2700 pixels x 1800 pixels

Original file size

2.15 MB