ML619488326
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
At 10:40 A.M. - the adult female in apparent incubation (NADIA rock lower ledge). At 1:50 P.M. - the adult male in apparent incubation. At 2:00 P.M. - the adult female flew in and landed on the cliff face, just south of the scrape ledge. At 2:17 P.M. - the adult male leaves the nest site in pursuit of a wayward Turkey Vulture. Four eggs are revealed in the scrape. At 2:19 P.M. - the adult female has returned to the scrape and resumed incubation duties. This is a late nesting effort. Earlier observations suggested that incubation began at the original/long-term nest site on April 1, followed by apparent abandonment of that breeding effort. To be able to lay a full clutch of four eggs some five weeks later in a second effort at breeding is unexpected, to say the least. Digiscope photos of the adult female. This bird has no leg band on the right leg. At present, I'm not sure if it is the same female that was present at West Rock last year or in the years before.
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- Lens
- iPhone SE (2nd generation) back camera 3.99mm f/1.8
- ISO
- 20
- Focal length
- 4 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/1.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/450 sec
- Dimensions
- 2324 pixels x 1743 pixels
- Original file size
- 858.85 KB