ML618864587
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Empid making "whit" calls. Very active foraging, remaining very low to ground (4 feet and under for most part). Tail, wing twitches didn't strike me as anything unusual (other than not GRFL, which was also in vicinity). This bird was very striking as far as contrasts between upper/lower, wing panel to upper (black against fairly bright green), about as clean of white wing bars as it gets against blackish wing panels, very strong white edge contrast on secondaries. Eyering seemed extreme in its contrast. Small, narrow, short, popsicle shaped tail. Blocky headed relative to body. Lower mandible mostly pale with some darkness near tip. A lot of things seem to fit for this bird as LEFL. Doing a little more study. LEFL should appear as one of the fresher molt birds with a partial pre-alternate molt prior to spring migration. Can easily rule out WIFL/ALFL, GRFL, DUFL should show more wear at this point in spring, several things wrong for HAFL, s well as WEFL it seems. WEFL should have an all pale lower mandible, and weaker contrasts in wingbards/wing panel. This would basically rules out the typical western Empids. Timing of migration appears to fit as well. Very strong flight overnight from SE could have pushed this bird in.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 500.0 mm f/5.6
- ISO
- 560
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1543 pixels x 1027 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.14 MB