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Détails de l'observation
While standing near the SW corner of the North Meadow, I heard distinctive slurred “slip-ip” calls and quickly realized that the birds were not in flight but calling from the ground, feeding on and around baseball field #3. I walked out carefully onto the field, and the birds moved around feeding comfortably for about 30 minutes as a kids soccer game started getting organized nearby. During this time, it was fun to observe at length their distinctive shape and movements, white outer rectrices, streaking below, olive backs, light stripes above eye and along throat, very slender bills, etc. They were periodically vocal, especially when a seventh individual flew in and landed around 9:05. About 9:15, they had moved out into a more heavily trafficked area of the field and were flushed east by pedestrians and athletes. I didn’t see them gain much elevation when they flew, but I could not re-find them in the west or east sections of the meadow. See photos.
Informations techniques
- Modèle
- NIKON D7100
- Lentille
- 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-6.3
- ISO
- 1600
- Longueur focale
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/9.0
- Vitesse d'obturation
- 1/8000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2501 pixels x 1667 pixels
- Taille originale du fichier
- 1.59 MB