ML619529797
Contributor
Jeremy Gatten Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
2355 Spit Road, Campbell River, British Columbia, CA (50.037, -125.247)
Comox-Strathcona, British Columbia, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Best "Townsend's Solitaire" ever! Seen while driving and noted greyish back and some white in outer tail feathers. I couldn't pull over immediately but watched as it landed in a tree along the road. At that point, I noticed fine streaks on the chest and, replaying the tail pattern in my head, I realized it was almost certainly a Sage Thrasher. It has already been one hell of a spring for them! I completed a miserable parking job, jumped out, and searched fruitlessly for five minutes. I gave one short blast of Sage Thrasher song and the bird immediately dropped into view in an ornamental oak tree in the parking lot. I obtained some record photos, but the bird is very skulky and evasive.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 0.01 sec
- Dimensions
- 2384 pixels x 1590 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.13 MB