ML612785182
Contributor
Pete Manchester Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Kaboson Health Center
Rift Valley, Kenya
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
Media notes
Taken when I had gone to track it down, after it was finished eating. Because of a dense fig tree in front of it, I could only photograph it from the back. Note the flushed face.
Observation details
Alighted on a jakaranda branch with a small kill, still with a flushed face. It perched and ate for several minutes, its face drained back to yellow. Carried its kill to another branch, then returned after a couple of minutes. A few minutes after I submitted the checklist I went to get closer, where I discovered its kill had been some kind of white-and-rufous bird, and it was finished eating and spent considerable time preening. A silent, solitary bare-faced go-away bird was in the same tree a few branches beneath it.
Technical information
- Model
- DSLR-A200
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 280 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1084 pixels x 725 pixels
- Original file size
- 324.9 KB