ML615986101
Contributor
Tina Tan Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Channel Islands Harbor--general
Ventura, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Female - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Observation details
First time seeing a SUSC eating. In real time, I couldn't tell what it was eating, but after going through the photos, I realized it was a mussel. According to All about Birds, they feed by diving for aquatic invertebrates (mussels, clams, oysters) which they swallow whole and the gizzards break down the shell.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
- Lens
- 3.8-247mm
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/640 sec
- Dimensions
- 5184 pixels x 3888 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.07 MB