ML642847050
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Flying; Foraging or eating
Media notes
Cropped and expanded image from Samsung S23. Automatic edge smoothing may have affected the apparent size and shape of the wings, particularly since this is an expanded section that was originally fewer pixels.
Observation details
Raptor with gray cheeks and head, dark beak with about 1/3 being yellowish (I was pretty sure it was the distal 1/3rd, but I had trouble seeing it for the limited time I glanced at it through my bins, so that impression was not wholly inconsistent with a Cooper's whereas having some yellow is consistent), dark gray back, whitish chin down to belly with tawny streaks. Flattish head appearance, possibly due to a Cooper's "crest" above the nape. Long tail, dark eyes. I spied it perched atop the southern-side Macy's entrance. Shortly after I drove up and took some phone camera pics, it attacked some starlings, but with no success. Then it reperched around on the west side, so I drove around to there. It then chased after more starlings unsuccessfully, while it ignored the 50 or so starlings lined up on the power and/or phone lines. The Cooper's Hawk landed again, but over the closed Sears section, where I took a second set of pics. After letting me take a couple of photos, it flew away.
Technical information
- Model
- Galaxy S23
- ISO
- 25
- Focal length
- 5.4 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/1.8
- Shutter speed
- 9/10000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1436 pixels x 2080 pixels
- Original file size
- 184.05 KB