Contributor
Michael Britten Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Wrights Reservoir
Teller, Colorado, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Medium-sized tern with long wings and tail. Mostly white wings with thin black leading and trailing edges to primaries. The bird had a long forked white tail and a longish dark bill with the proximal half orange-ish. Legs appeared orange-ish. I spotted the bird as it was flying low and drinking and bathing in the water. After a couple of minutes it got up to about 75 feet agl and flew N. I wonder it it spent the night here or was just migrating and stopped for a drink and a bath?
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/400 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.28 MB