ML619060919

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Continuing. Small-sized caracara with buffy head and body; dark brown wings; dark post-ocular line; gray bill; narrow tail bands with wide dark tip. Observed flying around the Target parking lot, variously perching on several business roofs/railings, lamp posts, a trash structure and vehicles. No sign of bands on legs or jesses, but also seemingly unconcerned with people as it moved around. At one point (presumably the delivery driver parked out front? or employee?) of the halal meat market in the shopping center (where it was apparently first seen/fed on April 24 per a dated photo obtained by Becky Turley from one of the employees) put out raw chicken on the ground out in front of the store and the bird came in to eat it - both on the ground and after carrying pieces to nearby perches. Eventually it flew to a ficus(?) tree across Narbonne Ave here (33.7886079, -118.3205686), where it stayed for most of the remaining time I was there. (Apparently a resident of the apartment building next to that tree has also been feeding it chicken for the last "two or three weeks" as well. And at least two different employees of other businesses in the center independently said the bird had been there "a month".) Photos.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D500

ISO

1000

Focal length

500 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/7.1

Shutter speed

1/2000 sec

Dimensions

4532 pixels x 3021 pixels

Original file size

2.42 MB