ML69391991
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
First-year male, roosting on logs in Port Angeles harbor at the base of Tumwater Street. Excerpt from description submitted to WBRC: "The bird roosted for 20-30 minutes, then started diving nearby. Dive times 41, 45, 46, and 33 seconds. It returned to the surface several times with prey, which appeared to be clams. It swallowed the clams whole upon surfacing. It then returned to the logs to preen and roost, where it remained until we left. The bird was clearly a Common Eider, with a very large, straight culmen on an orange-yellow bill and blotchy plumage of a first-year male. Its legs were orange, visible when it sat and stood on the log. The bird was huge for a duck, looking somewhat loon size while on the water. It totally dwarfed the Harlequin Ducks and a Hooded Merganser in the same area. It was undergoing body molt on its head and neck, which appeared mottled dark with white fleckings. Its rectrices and remiges were old and worn. It had a very mottled or pied look to it, with patches of white on its wing coverts, back, and breast but overall dark blackish gray."
Technical information
- Model
- FinePix S7000
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 46.8 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 0.01 sec
- Dimensions
- 1280 pixels x 960 pixels
- Original file size
- 410.41 KB