ML615077348

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Adult. Small alcid with darkish head and neck, wide orange bill, dark underwings, mostly white body with black on the back, demarcation line separating the white body and the black back fairly strait. The bird was flying south with a tail wind about forty feet above the ocean at a very fast clip. It was approximately 400 yards from shore so even though viewed with a scope I wasn't able to see much detail. When I saw the orange bill I knew it was a puffin so I switched from my scope to camera. I couldn't find the bird in my camera so I just took a bunch of shots of the sky in the general direction and ended up getting some terrible shots, I'll attach a few but you can't tell much from them. Over the past week and half three other Atlantic Puffins have been collected on the beaches here in Florida, one in Brevard, Volusia and Dade. I suspect there's some kind of puffin influx into state waters considering previous to this year there have only been two records in the state.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

ISO

1000

Focal length

420 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/22.0

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1549 pixels x 566 pixels

Original file size

696.3 KB