ML617637011
Contributor
Nancy Christensen Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Tijuana River Valley--west of Hollister
San Diego, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Great find by Paul Lehman this morning - 5th spring record of the species. We were fortunate to have it fairly close to us and actually see the partially webbed toes. How to reach this location is a bit tricky. Park on Hollister. Walk down dirt road directly south of the Pony Land corrals. The road/trail makes a turn, but we forged ahead up onto the flower covered berm. We waded through chest high flowers until we reached an area with feeding shorebirds. Luckily, the target bird was towards the east end of the mudflat, associating with a handful of Least Sandpipers, not with the larger flock of peeps that were on the west end.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON Z 9
- Lens
- NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S Z TC-1.4x
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 560 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1568 pixels x 1045 pixels
- Original file size
- 338.71 KB