ML24177841
Bidragsyter
Dato
Lokalitet
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Oppførsel
- I flukt
Observasjonsdetaljer
Adult (by thin, golden flecks and streaks in uppersides) 2nd Cape May County record! A huge skua with warm brown tone overall, dark-brownish/black cap on head, golden-brown nape and cheek, and large white flashes in upper and underwings. Briefly seen far behind in our wake, but then we turned around and chased it back up the slick and after a few minutes the skua came tearing back up the slick towards us, and made a few nice passes. Seen attacking Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls for bits of chum. Photos and video. The trip was going along pretty much perfectly by the afternoon, with all target birds found plus a few harder species that could have been hit or miss – but none of us were prepared for our biggest find of the day. During a brief period when the gull action behind the American Star had died down a bit, a large dark jaeger-type bird made a few passes across our chum slick way out behind us and then headed away. The Captain quickly turned the boat around and we were heading right back up the slick in search of what we figured must be a dark Pomarine Jaeger. Minutes went by with no sign of the bird, and I had pretty much given up hope when I spotted a distant black speck heading straight back towards us…. “That thing is heading right back at us, 12 o’clock!!”. Everyone gathered around the edges of the boat to get a good view as it flew down our port side giving us a stunning broadside view of the holy grail of winter pelagics barreling towards our wake – a bulky, mean-looking Great Skua! I was dumbfounded and had to look down at my camera LCD screen to confirm what had just happened, meanwhile yells from the back of the boat meant the bird must still be in sight. Sure enough the skua made a few more passes behind us, keying in on and attacking multiple Great Black-backed Gulls!
Teknisk informasjon
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D
- Lens
- EF400mm f/5.6L USM
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/2500 sec
- Dimensions
- 2157 pixels x 1437 pixels
- Original file size
- 534.35 KB