Contributor
Sean Lyon Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
San Luis NWR--Kesterson Unit
Merced, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
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Observation details
Pretty amazing numbers. I stood at the edge of the marsh (at 37.28102° N, 120.92968° W) as the sun was setting and flocks of blackbirds streamed in for minutes on end. I was quite surprised to find YHBL in these numbers, but I suppose there’s so little appropriate habitat in the San Joaquin Valley that they must concentrate somewhere. Adult males were the most easily visible, but I noted good numbers of adult females and young males molting into breeding plumage.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS REBEL T2i
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 200 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 5184 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.39 MB