ML63401371
Contribuidor
Fecha
Localidad
- Edad y sexo
- Juvenil, sexo desconocido - X
Detalles de la observación
Mike and I agreed to meet up on this morning to look for dispersing young herons or anything else we could find. I was aware of an irruption of spoonbills through some mid-Atlantic states but wasn't really thinking about it as a possibility. He got out on the water a few minutes before me, and as I was finishing putting in he calls me up talking about a Roseate Spoonbill hanging with the egrets around the corner behind Rookery Island. Some overexcited shouting ensued, and I paddled out as fast as I could to catch up and as I'm almost there he called out..and I look up to see the bird round the south corner of Rookery Island and pass right over my head. Absolutely jaw-dropping! It disappeared to the north and we split up to re-find it. Eventually it worked its way back down to Avocet point where the first of the chasers were able to observe it at length. Second county record (1st--late 1800s) and 3rd state (2nd--1955 moribund bird in Erie). Juvenile bird part of an irruption around the east coast of this species. Incredibly, there would be another juvenile at this same site about 13 months later, which by that point was I believe the 6th state record.
Información técnica
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 160
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 1575 pixels x 1050 pixels
- Original file size
- 572.64 KB