ML613513242

Age

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Sex

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Observation details

*Rare. Continuing. Took about 20 minutes to find. Parked at Harrington Park lot, which is down the little grass path entrance with tire tracks. From the lot, took the Harrington Park trail behind the farm. At the palettes is where I first picked up part of the junco flock. They were skittish. They flew into the big lone pine in the middle of the farm. I kept walking down the trail and there were more juncos on the palettes on the right, and those ones also flushed quickly, but to the scraggly conifer stand behind the greenhouse where the dogs are fenced in. Those juncos soon joined the others at the big lone pine. I walked back to the Harrington Park lot and continued along the front side (street side) of Marshall Farm and walked to the Marshall Farm parking lot. Once at that lot, I saw a few Spizella sparrows sitting on the wire fence by the goats, about two thirds of the way from the lot to the big lone pine. One was the CCSP, the others were Chipping Sparrows. CCSP stood out as obviously more pale even at a distance. Through bins, could see paler face, and zooming into a photo I could see the finer details like the pale lores, slight eye ring, dark mustache. I walked about 10 feet towards them and they all flew into the big pine, also very skittish. The CCSP was very closely associating with the Chipping Sparrows, and those three birds were loosely associating with the juncos. So, best to find juncos, narrow in on where the flock is sticking to, look for CHSP, then CCSP should be in there. A scope would have been helpful, especially because it was windy and the birds were extra flighty. Map:

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS R7

Lens

EF400mm f/5.6L USM

ISO

2000

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/2500 sec

Dimensions

809 pixels x 539 pixels

Original file size

121.23 KB