ML627810111

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

From notebook: "Crisply marked juvenile, present for its third day. I could not find it during the first 45 minutes of searching, but when a Peregrine put up all the shorebirds I saw it flying only 30' up directly over my head. Shortly after that I found it feeding along the grassy margin of the pond (e. half of the more northerly of the DU ponds [=Ducks Unlimited"]/ I watched it for 25 min, getting several photos (including a flight shot). A very distinctive shorebird, about the size of a Ruddy Turnstone but with slightly slimmer body and much longer neck and, especially, legs. Legs deep yellow with slight greenish tint. Scaly plumage above; all deep buff below; medium short straight bill with distinctive "underbite" -- feathering extending farther out lower mandible than upper. Underwing linings conspicuously white in flight."

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi

ISO

250

Focal length

300 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/10.0

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1187 pixels x 791 pixels

Original file size

89.82 KB