ML70018951
Contributor
Shane Sater Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Sevenmile Creek--Prickly Pear Land Trust (restricted access)
Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Juvenile Male - X
Observation details
Seen at ca 1403 gliding medium high over the stream-shrub area, slightly east of the property - watched it gain altitude and then circle some, more or less overhead with a second Accipiter! In the field, I thought this second bird was also a COHA (indeed, 1 photo shows the tail with a rounded tip when fanned) but with further consideration of my photos I conclude that it was a SSHA. I watched 1 bird swoop at the other several times - both got quite high and were heading more or less south near the position of the sun when I lost sight of them. Photos confirm that the SSHA and COHA were very close in size, pointing to a male COHA and a female SSHA.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 143 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 918 pixels x 771 pixels
- Original file size
- 80.38 KB