ML645953247
Contributor
Aidan Healey Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Hiram M. Chittenden Ballard Locks
King, Washington, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Photo, pretty heavily cropped and I'm not that well practiced on winter gulls recently, but I'm leaning Herring on this one. When trying to upload photos, Merlin is suggesting (er, telling me, unprompted) that this is GWGU. This bird readily stood out from the other large gulls nearby, both with darker primaries (relative to mantle) and with bill coloration. I'm not sure if or how Merlin would handle/suggest hybrids, but I'm personally sure that my observations of this bird are not consistent with (pure) GWGU.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX S9700
- ISO
- 180
- Focal length
- 135 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.4
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 2131 pixels x 1598 pixels
- Original file size
- 341.77 KB