ML588027941
Přispěvatel
Datum
Lokalita
- Věk a pohlaví
- Neznámý věk, samec - 1
Poznámky
Male Cape May Warbler continuing from the previous day, when first found by Sean Crockett, here photographed by Curtis A. Marantz on 19 May 2023 at Eisenhower Park, Orange, Orange County, California.
Podrobnosti k pozorování
I heard this bird singing as soon as I walked up to the group that was assembled, and it continued to sing, at least intermittently, throughout the course of my visit. The songs heard were mostly a repetitive "se-we, se-we, se-we,..." that to me was not unlike that of a Black-and-white Warbler, though probably more like that of a Bay-breasted Warbler; however, this bird also gave on occasion an even higher-pitched, "see, see, see, see, we-se" that was more similar to the typical song of Blackpoll Warbler. I also heard a short, "teetz" call that I was pretty sure was given by this bird. This bird was quite active, moving among trees, but spending much of its time either in a large pine or one of several flowering Silk Oak trees in the northwestern part of the park. I rarely saw this bird remain still for long while it foraged in the middle to upper levels of the various trees, in which it often remained hidden within the vegetation, but my impression was that it foraged mostly on insects amid the vegetation or along the branches as opposed to among the flowers of the Silk Oaks. Given that the warbler remained relatively high much of the time, my best views were through my scope. This was a relatively slim, medium-sized warbler that was probably similar in size and shape to a Townsend's Warbler, yet with some structural differences and more striking plumage differences. The bill was slim, fine-tipped, and seemingly curved slightly downward at the tip. I further thought the bill would have extended backward on the face to a point just behind the eye. The forehead was weakly sloping and the crown was gently rounded on a head that was unremarkable in size for a warbler. The neck was neither slim nor stout for a warbler, and the body was also quite slim. The wings were quite long, with a primary projection that was almost as long as the exposed secondaries, in tapered wingtips that reached the tips of undertail coverts that themselves reached about a third of the way out the tail. I thought the tail was about as long as the body without the head and neck, and noted that it was parallel-sided to slightly flared and weakly notched at the tip. I thought the legs were relatively long and slim. This was a colorful and boldly marked bird. The head pattern contrasted a black cap that was demarcated below by a relatively narrow, but well-defined supercilium that was yellow before the eye, but brick-red behInd the eye as it extended back along the upper edge of the auriculars. I was never completely sure if the black on the forehead reached the base of the upper mandible, but I thought there was a pale band that connected the supercilia across the immediate forehead. The supercilium was demarcated below by a narrow loral-stripe that was blackish before the eye, but apparently narrower and less conspicuous behind the eye even though it continued back to the nape to separate the supercilium from the auriculars. The auricilars were the same brick-red as the rear part of the supercilium, and this same color contended forward below the eye down tobthe lower edge of the moustachial region, but I did not think it quite reached the base of the lower mandible. Demarcating the lower edge of the brick-red on the auriculars and lower part of the face was a broad band of yellow that extended from the chin back through the submoustachial and malar regions to the outer corners of the throat before curving around behind the auriculars as a broad collar on the side of the neck that appeared to combine yellow and whitish. The throat, breast, sides, and to a lesser degree the flanks were also yellow, but the belly and undertail coverts were mostly white, albeit with a yellow wash across the basal undertail-coverts just behind the vent. Although the chin, belly, and undertail coverts were unmarked, there was narrow, black streaking that was densely packed as a wedge on the throat, and especially the lower throat, but somewhat more coarsely distributed on the sides, uppermost breast, and flanks, along which I thought I saw three rows of narrow streaks on a background that appeared to combine whitish and yellow. I was less sure about the extent of streaking on the upper breast, but I thought the center and lower breast was largely unmarked. The underside of the tail was mostly white, but with a narrow, black frame on either side that expanded distally to pinch off the white, which did not reach the tips of the outermost feathers, which were narrowly black. Returning to the upperparts, the black cap extended back to the nape, but I thought the back of the neck was more dusky, and rather narrowly so, given that it was nearly pinched off by the yellow bands on either side of the neck. The back and scapulars were light gray to grayish-olive with relatively bold and well-defined, black streaks. The rump was light yellow, but more narrowly so and less sharply demarcated than that of a Yellow-rumped Warbler, and with the distal uppertail-coverts seemingly dark. The upperside of the tail was generally dark when held closed, but I did not see the pattern clearly beyond noting white tail-spots when the bird spread its tail. The wings were generally quite dark. Most conspicuous was a white wedge across the median coverts that appeared to represent broad tips that I thought were broader on the outer feathers than in the inner ones. The greater coverts contrasted sooty to dull, blackish centers with narrow edges that appeared to be olive and well-defined, but not expanding conspicuously at the tips, which resulted in the lack of a clear, lower wingbar. I further thought the primary coverts were darker than the rest of the wing. The remiges were again sooty to blackish, and again with narrow, but well-defined, edges of olive that may have been somewhat broader and lighter on the innermost secondaries, but otherwise similar in both color and character on the primaries and remaining secondaries. I thought the exposed primary tips were dusky and lacking an obvious pattern, but I did not see this overly well. As far as I could determine, the bill was black, and the eyes, legs, and feet were all quite dark, but their precise color eluded me.
Technické informace
- Model
- ILCE-7RM5
- Objektiv
- FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
- ISO
- 1600
- Ohnisková vzdálenost
- 600 mm
- Blesk
- Flash did not fire
- Clonové číslo
- f/7.1
- Expoziční čas
- 1/250 sec
- Rozměry
- 2245 pixels x 1446 pixels
- Původní velikost souboru
- 4.23 MB