ML97139211
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Dettagli dell'osservazione
Including 1 *beyond property boundary*. 1 singing. Several times during the survey I saw a dark starling-shaped bird perched on the chimney of one of the abandoned, dilapidated Head Ranch buildings. Likely a good nesting location? All the others were on the property, primarily in reach 4. At 0714 1 flew up from the ground (apparently) in the W part of the sewage lagoon area, heading SE and landed at the top of a Russian-olive, still within the sewage ponds area. Around 0735 or 0740 I saw 1 EUST visit the AMKE box in reach 4; at least 4 more were perched on or near the E fence near the stream. At 0755, 5 flew downstream low over the stream corridor in reach 4 in a loose group; at that point there were at least 3 others perched along the stream in that area. Ca 0800, I noted 3 (that had been perched in the E part of reach 4?) near the junk pile N of the red culverts, on the ground probably foraging in this area of short grasses. Around 0820 I heard 1 starling singing for a time while perched in a Chokecherry at the very E end of reach 4. At 0825, while it was still singing, I saw 6 others perched in an isolated Acer negundo (beginning to leaf out) and isolated Chokecherry N of the red culvert area, then dropping down to the ground nearby. This was at the edge between the stream terrace and the shortly vegetated south-sloping hillside with significant cover of Alyssum desertorum; I suspected the starlings were foraging here. On the return I saw 1 starling perched in the snag just N of the diversion for several minutes, until I apparently approached too close and it flew S. At 1345 I noted a EUST perched on a wooden post with a cavity S of reach 4, where I saw NOFL activity last spring and also saw a NOFL perching on 26 Apr this year.
Informazioni tecniche
- Modello
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 400
- Lunghezza focale
- 268 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Velocità otturaore
- 1/400 sec
- Dimensioni
- 3070 pixels x 2304 pixels
- Dimensione originale file
- 1.2 MB