ML77562641
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Time stamp on photo one hour off; image cropped. All-yellow bill with kittiwake size and shape, dark eye, dark spot behind eye on ear coverts, which was smudged partially around nape. Nape slightly grayish. Black legs. Gray tone of mantle is blown out in this somewhat overexposed image. Apical spots not prominent but visible.
Observation details
Noticed from southbound trail along eastern side, just south of Pinon Cliffs sites. Although we were intending to reach the dam area to view flocks beyond it, noticed a single gull in the water near shore below the cliffs. Quickly noted the dark spot behind eye, then all-yellow bill and black legs. Mantle was seemingly slightly darker than the typical R-BGU, and the bill/legs color combo ruled out FRGU. Trace of gray on nape but bright sunlight obscured it somewhat. Bill shape and size was consistent with B-LKI. Bird eventually swam slowly southward, and passed us by the dam, hugging the shoreline all the time, never venturing farther out than about 100 feet. Never unfolded or extended its wings.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7100
- ISO
- 640
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 1341 pixels x 1284 pixels
- Original file size
- 903.98 KB