Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) 20 April 2014 at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco County, CA Photos © 2014 Joseph Morlan




This individual was first seen on the Farallon Islands 25 April 2012. For the last week it has been on Alcatraz Island inside San Francisco Bay where it has been displaying to a Brandt's Cormorant. These photos were digiscoped from the San Francisco Municipal Pier at Aquatic Park. Distance to the bird from this point was slightly over 1 mile (.9 nm).

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Digiscoped with Panasonic DMC-LZ5 | Nikon FieldScope 3 | 30X WA | hand-held (no adapter)
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