ML616250547

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - 1

Observation details

FOY. I was working in our back yard when I heard their classic high pitched “cheat” call repeated at intervals of a few seconds, so recorded their calls with my cellphone, then grabbed my bins and camera and began scanning the trees in our backyard and soon determined they were in the tops of our neighbors Elm trees, so headed over there and began trying to locate them. Just as I walked under the Elm trees, the birds spotted me and flew away before I could get photos. Fortunately, after about 20 minutes, they returned to the same Elm trees. I was able to get photos while standing at the side of the street in front of our neighbors house. This is the earliest I've ever seen this species in Oregon since i got back into serious birding. I just checked my eBird sightings for this species and out of my 44 sightings of this species since Jan. 1, 2013, my earliest sighting before today was April 19, 2015.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 70D

ISO

800

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/10.0

Shutter speed

1/2000 sec

Dimensions

1252 pixels x 809 pixels

Original file size

280.89 KB