ML646706390
Contributor
Ed Yong Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Alameda Island Nearshore
Alameda, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Black male with bright yellow knob on the bill, and distinctive triple-bump line from forehead to bill tip. Somewhere (37.7666131, -122.2900371) scoped from opposite Pier 29 restaurant. He made me work for it! I scanned through about 2000 scoters for about an hour in perfect light and still water, and when I finally saw the bird, I took a photo, sent the word out… and then lost him completely and never found him again. I have another pic which shows that when his bill is in shade, the bright yellow does not stand out *at all*. A nice reward for many mornings of scanning duck rafts!
Technical information
- Model
- OM-1MarkII
- Lens
- OM 150-400mm F4.5 TC
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 2048 pixels x 1365 pixels
- Original file size
- 638.17 KB