Slate-throated Redstart - Tucker Dangremond 🦆
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Location

Yellow House Draw downstream of Canyon Lake 6
Lubbock, Texas, United States
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Map
Map Coordinates: 33.5583656, -101.7945528
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Observation details

Absolute MEGA find by Peter Kyle and Jim Crites. I don’t even know where to begin with this WILD day. I was at Big Bend National Park when I happen to get service and got word that a Slate-throated Redstart was being reported in Lubbock. For those who don’t know, this is the wild. I have seen these birds in Guatemala. That’s how wild it is. I drive straight through to Lubbock which is about 6 hours, only stoped for gas once which took about 3 minutes. I pull into Lake 6 at 7:20pm and my absolute unit of a friend Tucker was already there to help me get on the bird tonight. Of course it is windy as ALL get out. So windy. Tucker eventually saw it for 2 seconds and then I eventually found it on my side of the river. Bright red underparts with slate colored back, crimson cap, and white edges to retrices. I really can’t get over this bird being in Lubbock and I’m so thankful against ALL odds I got on it today! Lubbock County #308

Technical information

Model
COOLPIX P950
ISO
1600
Focal length
357 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/6.5
Shutter speed
1/13 sec
Dimensions
3809 pixels x 2857 pixels
Original file size
6.2 MB