Contributor
Steven Mlodinow Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Neesopah Reservoir & Sweetwater Lake
Kiowa, Colorado, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
Photos. First year. Dark brown above with small spots on scaps. Spots on wing coverts also small. Greater wing coverts narrowly edged in whitish. Underparts dark grayish brown on neck and chest with whitish streaking (reverse of young BCNH). Lower belly and undertail coverts pale. Dark crown. Orange-red eye. Cheek streaked heavily with fine dusky marks, no whisker mark as in BCNH. Bill stout and black. Legs yellowish and long with feet and about equal amount of leg protruding beyond tail in flight. Tail and flight feathers contrastingly darker than remainder of wing and uppertail coverts. 5:20-5:40 spent viewing bird at as close as 100 meters.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D7000
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 569 pixels x 497 pixels
- Original file size
- 252.25 KB