ML82422201
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Observation details
First seen at 1243 perched 2/3 of the way up in a deciduous tree with opposite branching (Acer negundo?) near 3rd and Dakota, in which I have seen a TOSO perch on several other occasions this winter. Flew at 1244, possibly due to my proximity. The neighborhood was conspicuously quiet, though 2 BBMA had been perched within 50 m (one preening), making occasional loud calls that had struck me as possibly agitated. The SSHA flew to the NW quick and low, darting around the edge of a house and out of sight. Near the count end, I briefly glimpsed a bird in flight heading east across Montana, semi-distant north of me. It looked like a SSHA but I was not able to get my binoculars on it. Sightings shortly thereafter of an adult SSHA near Cooke and Highland suggest that the same individual likely had indeed flown east across Montana.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 642.6 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 4078 pixels x 3453 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.13 MB