ML99682691
Contributor
Scott Somershoe Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Bowdoin NWR
Phillips, Montana, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Media notes
Bird is left of center on this shot. Didn't crop in super close.
Observation details
Male snowy. Seen at a distance, but good looks. REALLY BAD photos included. I know none of these are diagnostic, or even focused. I basically aimed where the bird was and took a lot of photos. The bird isn't even in most of the photos, but pops up from the grass on occasion. Tough conditions. Small plover, sandy colored back, thicker stripe down side of neck than on a PIPL, black line across top of the forehead, black smear going down behind the eye (not a feature on PIPL), thin black bill (unlike PIPL's thick, shorter orange bill with black tip). Photos awful, but we saw all the ID features clearly.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D300
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 420 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/160 sec
- Dimensions
- 1373 pixels x 1065 pixels
- Original file size
- 416.78 KB