ML618563390

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Observation details

***Insane. Truly extraordinary numbers. Covering the jetty and flying around. At one point I counted 110 ROST on the jetty, then immediately after another 50 in flight, so total is a careful 160. Studied very well in the scope. Long tail, black or almost entirely back bills, ghostly wingtips, pale upperparts, ki-vik call. I have much experience identifying this species at all distances at breeding grounds and on migration/post breeding dispersal. Unfortunately at 11:20 an asshole fisherman flushed every single bird on the jetty. A good number of birds dispersed and went way off (to Great Gull island?).Fortunately roughly half of the flock remained for Chuck and other folks to still see many ROST. Notably, the ROST often stuck together. When I counted 110 on the jetty, there were “clumps” of them, the largest around 30-35 birds. Pix show only a fraction of the ROST on the jetty

Technical information

Model

iPhone 13

Lens

iPhone 13 back dual wide camera 5.1mm f/1.6

ISO

50

Focal length

5.1 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/1.6

Shutter speed

1/799 sec

Dimensions

4032 pixels x 3024 pixels

Original file size

3.01 MB