ML609180807
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Data
Localização
- Idade
- Não especificado
- Sexo
- Não especificado
Detalhes da observação
A juvenile (courtesy of Tropical Storm Ophelia) showing all brownish body with yellowish orange feet and blue bill and blue-ish cast around face, lacking white rump as on young Northern Gannets, and smaller size and more aerodynamic than that larger species as a whole. Photographed extensively during an 18-minute window. Seen initially zipping by northbound, straight out from the pier at 1:02 PM, then watched it loop in towards shore about a quarter mile north near the multi-colored, high-rise condo building. The bird then slowly worked its way back south against the strong winds, and at 1:10 PM it landed on the southern railing of the pier, for roughly a minute before gliding off the south edge. It then hung in the air without flapping for 9 minutes, sliding back and forth with the winds along the pier until 1:20 pm when it flew north again, this time fully out of view into the haze. Mike Collins was the only other person to arrive in time, and got point blank views of the bird hovering over the pier facing into the wind. Comparison of photographs taken the prior evening (https://ebird.org/checklist/S150557770) & then again earlier this morning (https://ebird.org/checklist/S150883784) by Daniel Irons at Cape Point (Dare, NC) roughly 104 miles away (straight-line distance; though slightly longer if traveling along the beaches) indicate this is the same individual that was pushed northward by Ophelia's winds.
Informação técnica
- Modelo
- NIKON Z 7_2
- Lente
- NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S
- ISO
- 125
- Distancia focal
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Velocidade do obturador
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensões
- 8256 pixels x 5102 pixels
- Tamanho do ficheiro original
- 11.84 MB