ML76236951
Contributor
Chris Rurik Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Mekoryuk (town)
Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Only one seen during my three weeks in Mekoryuk. Lighting conditions were tough, and I have lightened the photos slightly. All dark bill and grayish body and wingtips point toward GWGU rather than GLGU. The tide was going out and the current was fastest close to shore. Three or four times this bird flew in, landed twenty-five yards offshore from us, and rode the current slowly out into the main channel. The other gulls weren't landing at all.
Technical information
- Model
- FinePix S1
- ISO
- 1600
- Focal length
- 215 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/220 sec
- Dimensions
- 1504 pixels x 1128 pixels
- Original file size
- 494.94 KB