ML621390771
Contributor
Mark Scheel Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Malibu Lagoon--State Beach including Lagoon
Los Angeles, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Continuing in the lagoon. Found by Alexander Yan this morning. Photos. Small heron (size of SNEG or slightly smaller) with very long thin bill. Hunting in mostly horizontal posture with neck coiled and sometimes with head slightly below body. Belly and undertail coverts whitish, contrasting with bluish breast. Back mostly bluish gray with some rufous feathers. Neck had a thin white stripe down the center bordered by rufous and bluish. Bright yellow lores and bright yellow base of lower mandible. Yellow legs.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R5
- Lens
- EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4x III
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 700 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 3478 pixels x 1956 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.81 MB