ML616632826
Colaborador
Data
Localização
- Idade
- Não especificado
- Sexo
- Não especificado
Detalhes da observação
I was standing in the northwest corner of Clifton Court Forebay, where a small group of ~200 Bonaparte’s Gulls were sitting on the water quite far from my position so that I could barely scan through them on the water. At about 5:25 (contra my listserv post), four or five gulls picked up from the group and flew towards me. As they approached, at almost their closest point as they were about to pass me by entirely, I noticed naked eye that one looked bigger than the others and “odd.” I can’t really describe that odd part but it was a strong feeling, so I lifted my camera and took a few photos. As the gulls began to fly away from me, I stopped following them (as I might have had I fully formed the thought in my mind that an odd-looking hooded gull with Bonaparte’s that was just a bit larger than that species sounds like a Black-headed) and looked at my camera to see what I had taken. It was readily apparent that a Black-headed Gull was staring back at me, so I began to panic a bit and look for the flock that had flown by me, but it was too late and I had lost them over the forebay. After an hour or more of searching, sometime past 6:30 but before 7:00, I found a far-away, smaller group of Bonaparte’s on the water with the Black-headed Gull bobbing among them. I was able to study the bird for the next 15-20 minutes in a spotting scope with the sun behind me, until I had to leave.
Informação técnica
- Modelo
- NIKON D500
- Lente
- 150.0-600.0 mm f/5.0-6.3
- ISO
- 640
- Distancia focal
- 420 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.0
- Velocidade do obturador
- 1/3200 sec
- Dimensões
- 1832 pixels x 1221 pixels
- Tamanho do ficheiro original
- 1.62 MB