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Immature male originally found 11 November by Angela Iannicelli. The bird was at her feeders at the top of Horn Hill then and there when we arrived today on a whirlwind attempt. Doug spotted the bird quickly, and we spent a minute or so studying it from a distance through scope and binoculars. We only had the time available between arrival of the ferry and its departure; so time at the oriole was only about 15-20 minutes. The bird was there the entire time of our visit, however. Medium-sized passerine about the size but slimmer than female Red-winged Blackbird present for comparison. I spent time focusing on a few characters and otherwise did not take detailed notes at the time. Bright orange cheeks and breast with narrow black bib and black eyeline. Yellowish-orange supercilium set off by black eyeline; olive-gray crown. I noted that the greater coverts were distinctly white edged on their outer margins, forming a “lattice” like pattern across the wing. The inner secondaries were likewise conspicuosly edged with white. The back color appear to be pale olive-washed gray with thin, dark centers (lines or thin spots). The belly was pale but not whitish, but the undertail coverts contrasted as distinctly yellow. The tail was overall orangish-yellow. The bill was long and pointed with pale pinkish mandible and blackish maxilla. The legs and toes were grayish. I heard no vocalizations by the bird. The oriole visited a suet feeder, platform seed feeder, and a cut orange placed out for it. In other words, it visited all the food available and revisited each in its time at the feeders. After it was done, it sat in a multiflora rose shrub and then departed. Identification as Bullock's Oriole was straightforward, with the cheeks being bright orange like the upper breast and contrasting with duller crown, the supercilium set-off by dark eyeline, and greater coverts showing white edging the length of the outer margins. Although hybrids between Baltimore and Bullock's have occurred in the East (e.g. confirmed by photos in Connecticut), this bird showed no suggestion of being a hybrid and looked essentially like the many wintering Bullock's Orioles I have seen in s. California. This is the second Bullock's Oriole that I have seen in Maine.
Технічна інформація
- Модель
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Об'єктив
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 320
- Фокусна відстань
- 400 mm
- Спалах
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Витримка
- 1/200 sec
- Розміри
- 2048 pixels x 1365 pixels
- Розмір вихідного файлу
- 1.27 MB