ML623687027
Contributor
Gus van Vliet Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Tongass NF--Moose Lake area
Juneau City and Borough, Alaska, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1; Juvenile, Unknown sex - 1
Media notes
A juvenile following the adult for quite a distance on the water.
Observation details
Post-breeding adult/juvenile pair? Suggestive evidence for nearby breeding? "For the 2nd consecutive summer, Pied-billed Grebes nested at Sitka’s Swan Lake, where an adult attended four downy chicks 22 July 2011 (MRG). This species is primarily a rare fall migrant and winter visitant in Southeast Alaska (Kessel and Gibson 1978), and there were only three prior documented Alaska nesting records: at Sitka (in 2010), at Cordova (Isleib and Kessel 1989), and Annette Island (Heinl and Piston 2009)." -- from Steve Heinl's SE AK Summer 2011 Report
Technical information
- Model
- DMC-FZ300
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 108 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/2.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 4000 pixels x 3000 pixels
- Original file size
- 5.78 MB