ML616518009
Contributor
Ron Wilson Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
UCSB--East beach (formerly Goleta Bay West beach)
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Continuing bird just north of Lot 6 stairs feeding with the Sanderlings and the Dunlin. It is about the same size as the Sanderlings. Slender bird with wing tips and tail about the same length. Bright eye stripe, scaled appearance to back, streaked appearance to the top of the head, light taupe collar. Mottled dark taupe color to feathers on wings, back and tail. Primaries dark gray. White throat and belly. You can see a white rump when it flies and when it stretches. It was first spotted in the middle of a resting group of Sanderlings and then went everywhere they did. As a group they would work the seaweed and sand east up the beach and then fly back west towards the stairs and start all over again often coming very close to us.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 2562 pixels x 1708 pixels
- Original file size
- 3.9 MB