ML61975531
Contributor
Derek Rogers Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Fire Island--Old Inlet, Bellport Bay
Suffolk, New York, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
**Very uncommon in the bay but I shortly found out after about the disheartening event involving a mass die off of Great Shearwaters with hundreds if not thousands of birds seen inshore and many perishing along the beaches. I was scanning a distant tern flock out on the flats and a Great Shearwater drifted past my scope. The bird eventually lifted off and flew directly towards me where it landed right in with some gulls. After about 10 minutes the bird picked up and flew out of the inlet and back into the ocean.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 300.0 mm f/4.0
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 420 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 4000 pixels x 2667 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.59 MB