ML617979280

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Thanks to the two individuals who called us to this spot after sighting the birds. If you walk across the culvert going uphill in the direction you drive in from, turn left just past the culvert and walk to the edge of the road/embankment and look down. The culvert is now on your left and as you look down into the drop off there are piles of boulders before the clearing at the bottom. These two sparrows were feeding in and out of the boulders and appeared to be gathering up small twigs from time to time. We were told that they have been seen all the way to the far hillside and can be found sometimes by going through the culvert which is accessible from the other side of the road. It's a bit of a drop from the culvert once you walk through it, or you have to climb some rocks on the left to get down. The sparrows have slate gray chests with a single black spot in the middle. Sides and tails also gray with rusty brown backs, wings and heads. They have a white eye brow, rusty brown auricular patch that darkens to black at the bill, white mustache and black throat with a white vertical stripe through the middle. Also a white broken eye ring. The bill is slate gray and slightly curved, legs light gray.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Lens

EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM

ISO

640

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

2019 pixels x 2064 pixels

Original file size

2.71 MB