ML89580771

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - X

Media notes

Sharpened, color adjusted due to late afternoon sun reflecting off feathers, removed haze in Lightroom CC

Observation details

As I stepped out of a building on campus and was on the sidewalk headed to the parking lot, I heard kak, kak, kakking at me from a tree above. I looked up and saw this bird. She began flying from branch to branch in the trees right around where I was and periodically gave me the warning sound. I took a few pictures of her as best I could. Used my Android phone's camera with 8X magnification, but the pics are still really small because these trees are really tall. The adjacent building is 3 stories tall, and the trees are taller. She was in rather lower branches, because she was upset at my presence. I saw her mate fly through the trees, pass underneath her and perch close by, but farther away. I could not get a good picture of him. She was hopping upon and seemed to be struggling to perch upon the branches. She flew up towards what I saw was a partially built nest and I realized that she looked awkward in the trees because she had a stick in her claws. She did not place the stick on the nest, but stopped short of it and swerved to another location. At that point I realized that I should get into my car because I was preventing her from building her nest. 2 days later, I looked up at the nest as I was returning to the building and saw that the nest seemed better shaped by then. I did not see the birds. I hope they figure this out. They are trying to build on a very busy college campus, so will have to acclimate to all the traffic of people and vehicles coming and going.

Technical information

Model

SM-G920V

ISO

40

Focal length

4.3 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/1.9

Shutter speed

1/140 sec

Dimensions

576 pixels x 1024 pixels

Original file size

316.46 KB