Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Male - 1
Media notes
digiscoped video
Observation details
Immature male; blackbird with yellow breast, dirty yellow face with dark loreal region, brown nape/cap, appeared larger than nearby Red-winged Blackbird males, white on primary coverts was present but limited and not easily noted in flight at distance (clearly visible in video stills); some incredibly shaky digiscoped video (wind + distance/heavy scope zoom) I initially saw this bird within one of the many blackbird flocks while scoping the marshes north of Oil City Rd from the parking lot and while immediately identifiable, this bird became a seriously frustrating project to document due to distance, constantly moving blackbird flocks, and brief and sporadic nature of sightings (bird would perch up for a few seconds before dropping out of sight). Fortunately on my 4th and final sighting, roughly an hour after I first found it, the bird flew back in and stayed perched up long enough for me to fire off a few desperation photos in its general direction and then much better, but still awful, digiscoped videos.
Technical information
- Camera
- iPhone 13 Pro
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Mavis Pro Camera app + Phone Skope adapter + Kowa TSN-884
- Original file size
- 88.68 MB