Contributor
Brian Sullivan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Carmel River--Hwy 1 riparian (wading) and/or permit-only Odello
Monterey, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
Identified by combination of strongly banded outer primary tips, spangled appearance to underparts and underwing coverts, strong whitish chest streaking, white highlights in tail and in primary coverts. The bird is quite skittish burying itself mid-height in the willows between the new plantings and Cross Hill, then moving over to the oak hillside where it disappears from view on the Ribera Road side of the slough. It stays low, doesn't soar, and isn't approachable, unlike the many juvenile Western Red-tailed Hawks around. It's not the blackest or most typical dark juvenile Harlan's I've seen (if there even is such a thing as a typical Harlan's), but this bird has enough characters to put it in the Harlan's camp.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF500mm f/4L IS USM
- ISO
- 500
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 2500 pixels x 1500 pixels
- Original file size
- 895.79 KB