ML616313407

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Continuing bird. Seen briefly through scope around 7:20 by the barn feeding on the ground among Chipping and White-crowned sparrows. Didn't manage photos as it disappeared while I pulled my camera out of my bag, and after another half hour there we gave up searching and moved on. I began to doubt myself about the earlier ID after we returned to spend nearly an hour of thorough searching through the constantly moving Chipping Sparrows without seeing it. Finally, we got more looks and photos of the bird when I noticed it sitting in the lower branches of the tree across from the barn. Small sparrow about the size of the nearby chippings, but a little chunkier. Marks used to separate it from chipping sparrows: bicolored bill with black upper mandible and yellow lower mandible, black spot on breast, wide gray supercilium about the same shade as rest of the face, dark eyeline that widened toward the back of the head, and upper wingbar shorter than those of chippers. Photos tba

Technical information

Model

NIKON Z 5

Lens

VR 150-600mm f/5-6.3G

ISO

160

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.0

Shutter speed

1/250 sec

Dimensions

726 pixels x 485 pixels

Original file size

133.51 KB