Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
Media notes
Flying directly overhead, higher and now with some shadowing.
Observation details
FRS, submitted 02.15.24 2nd cycle bird seen on the ice at the leading edge of the gull flock later in the observation @ 1320 hrs after the 1st cycle ICGU had been seen. Was evidently photographing the 1st cycle when the 2nd cycle arrived. Gull did not stay long and took off before a photo of it on the ice could be obtained. Flew directly overhead as it left flying east with the wings all white in flight also. Bird continued east, then headed northeast. On the ice the gull showed all white wings with no hint of any brown or dark coloration on the primaries and the bird appeared all white, contrasting with the gulls behind it. The first flight photo shows all white primaries and also all white secondaries consistent with a glaucoides. In the first flight photo taken just after the gull took flight there is no evident darker tail band either.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P600
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 39.4 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.6
- Shutter speed
- 0.01 sec
- Dimensions
- 1699 pixels x 1147 pixels
- Original file size
- 78.88 KB