ML243732121
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- Zehaztu gabea
- Sexua
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CBRC report: Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor Salt Creek Mouth, Riverside County, California. 22 December, 2005. 3:30 pm. David Vander Pluym and I drove from Wister Unit in Imperial county to Salt Creek to look for the previously reported scoters and Barrow's Goldeneye. Todd McGrath was also there looking for them. We were all three scoping through about 500 ducks and the five scoters when David said that he just saw a Tricolored Heron land on the beach about 150 feet down, past the creek mouth. Todd got a look before it disappeared in to some low tamarisks, I didn't see it. David and I then went in to the tamarisks to try and flush it out. Apparently we did flush it, but I didn't see it. Todd then left. David and I stuck around for another fifteen minutes before we saw the bird again. I was standing in the creek mouth when the heron flushed out of the tamarisks about 100 feet down the beach, flew toward me and landed in the creek about forty feet away. I started taking digi-bined photos as it flew in. David then ran down the beach and got some video. We watched it for a few minutes and then we left. Partial clouds. No wind. Description: A small dark Heron, approximately the same size as a Snowy Egret, but the neck seemed a bit longer. Neck, head, back, wings, and tail dark slaty blue. Chest, belly and undertail coverts pure white with a very distinct separation with the slaty blue of neck. Underwings also pure white. All flight feathers dark slaty blue, slightly darker than the back color. A thin white line down the front of the neck that continued to chin. Legs greenish. Lores and skin around eye bright yellow. Bill dark with extensive yellow on the lower mandible. The bird appeared to be an adult in basic plumage.\ Discussion: Overall dark body with pure white belly and underwings eliminate all other herons. I have seen many Tricolored Herons in Florida, Mexico, and Central America. This was my first one in California. Optics used: I had a 10x42 Audubon Equinox Binoculars and a Nikon Coolpix 7900 Digital Camera with 7 megapixels. Written from notes taken the day after I saw the bird. Oscar Johnson
Informazio teknikoa
- Eredua
- E7900
- ISOa
- 100
- Distantzia fokala
- 7.8 mm
- Flasha
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/4.8
- Obturadorearen abiadura
- 5/483 sec
- Dimentsioak
- 2304 pixels x 1728 pixels
- Fitxategiaren tamaina originala
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