Beitragende/r
Datum
Ort
- Alter und Geschlecht
- juvenil, Geschlecht unbekannt - X
Beobachtungsdetails
Oscar's CBRC submission: Species: Bar-tailed Godwit, Location: Virgin Creek Mouth, MEN County Date: 13 August 2006. Age and sex: Juvenile, sex unknown. Molt status: None apparent. Number of individuals: 1 Other observers: Austin Booth, Matt Brady, Don Doolittle, Richard Hall, Lisa Hugg, Cindy Lieurance, Les Lieurance, Mathew Matthiesen, Ayla Reith, Debi Shearwater, Linda Terrill, Ryan Terrill, Scott Terrill, Brett Tryon, Chuck Vaughn, and about five other birders. Original observer: Mathew Matthiesen Circumstances: After returning to Fort Bragg from a Shearwater Journeys pelagic trip most of the people on the boat went to Virgin Creek Mouth to look for the Bar-tailed Godwit that was found a few days previous. As we were walking out to look for the bird, I realized that I forgot my camera, so I went back to the car to get it. When I got back to the creek mouth, everyone was looking at the bird from the bluffs. The bird was on the beach in bad lighting, so we all moved down on to the beach to get a better look. A few beachgoers then proceeded to flush the bird. Luckily it only flew a few hundred feet down the beach. We then watched the bird for another forty-five minutes or so. Matthew and I were able to get very close to the bird by hiding behind a rock and we were both able to get excellent photos (Matthew’s were better). The bird then moved farther down the beach and most of the people decided to leave, as it was getting late and most of us had a long way to drive. Description: A large shorebird, fairly obviously a Godwit. It foraged alone, so did not offer direct size comparison with any other shorebirds. Its neck, bill, and legs were shorter than a marbled. The bill was straight, with only a very slight hint of an upturn. Overall very buff, especially on the breast. The most obvious character was the bird’s prominent whitish supercilium, bordered bellow by an indistinct brown eyeline, and above by a darker cap.
Technische Angaben
- Modell
- E7900
- ISO
- 50
- Brennweite
- 7.8 mm
- Blitz
- Flash did not fire, auto
- Blende
- f/4.8
- Belichtungszeit
- 5/2941 sec
- Abmessungen
- 1436 pixels x 994 pixels
- Größe der Originaldatei
- 569.4 KB