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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jan 25, 2016 - 09:55am PT
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My only Great Crested Flycatcher was a dead bird too. :( It does happen for sure. There is a pet store in Houston that specializes in parrots. They stuff all their deceased birds - it's super creepy! (Not good tax. jobs either - just weird dusty birds. Bleck!)
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Jan 25, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
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Another round of pics from the area south of Puerto Vallarta. Really fun to see so many new birds, maybe 40 of the 90 species we saw were new for us :-)
P.S. John H - we had a blast seeing new birds, shot maybe 1200 frames and got about 110 quality keepers, a reasonable hit rate :-)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jan 25, 2016 - 07:19pm PT
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Where the heck is the 'like' and 'love' button on this thread!?!?!?
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john hansen
climber
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Jan 29, 2016 - 09:23pm PT
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I was wondering if this could possibly be a Gloucus winged gull. It was taken a few years ago at Grey lodge Ca. In the central Valley.
Gulls are tough for me. So many Gulls , so many yearly variations..
Would like to get better at gulls.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Jan 30, 2016 - 12:03am PT
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John,
A GW Gull wouldn't have those black primary tips. From the pale mantle and what I can see of the bill, I would guess this is a Ring-billed Gull. Anybody else?
We just had our annual herring run when the herring spawn their roe on the eelgrass beds. This leads to quite the wildlife spectacle, with pelicans, comorants, sea lions, etc feeding on the adult herring. This is followed by thousands of gulls feeding on the eggs that stick to seaweed, pilings, etc. This when thousands of diving ducks mass offshore to feed on the roe-coated eelgrass.
If you are in the SF Bay area in Jan-Feb, these herring runs provide a great opportunity to study all usual suspects, including Thayer's Gulls. Lots of Mew Gulls also arrive. This a good time to look for rare gulls. I failed to find a Slaty-backed Gull that showed up again as it had for the last few years.
Here are some of the hundreds of Brown Pelicans resting out of the wind along the breakwater, shot from our front window.
Some photos here, including some of the fishing boats and folks pulling in nets-full of herring from the pier.
Point Richmond Herring Run
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Jan 30, 2016 - 10:47am PT
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Wow Dave, I'm loving those Mexican birds! Wish I'd been a birder when I lived in Vallarta.
I haven't been birding a lot lately but, did get out to San Clemente Island again.
I went down to the SA River this morning to see the Tufted Duck. It was a lifer and may be a first time recorded in Orange County'
I had a hard time getting photos as she was on the far side of the river and spent more time under water than above.
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jan 30, 2016 - 09:48pm PT
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Jan 31, 2016 - 01:11pm PT
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Two of my frequent winter backyard birds.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Jan 31, 2016 - 07:25pm PT
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Some more PV Mexico area birds - cerveza fria por favor!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Hard to post after all that, but I will. But first Cyndie, thanks for the Redpoll photo so we can see what they really look-like. From the last two days (click to expand):
Isn't Valentine's Day coming up?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Sweet stuff!! I do love the Redpoll too. Maybe some day I'll actually see one.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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I see Willoughby resurfaced on his SUP thread. Thought that would mean a post here, but no dice. What's up?
Actually, looks like this is my first Birds post of 2016, so who's to talk?
Finished 2015 with the same 732 CR year birds. Off to a good start for the 2016 CR yearlist. Already have nine species that I missed last year, including one new bird for my CR list, White-eyed Vireo. Doesn't mean much though at this stage, as it somehow always seems to even out. Saw some really cool birds last year that I doubt will show again this year.
My Guatemala trip fell through, for a weird reason. I'm told the organizer doesn't want me adding to my Central America list. He's a HUGE lister (way ahead of me), 84 years old, and I guess it means a lot to him. Sad but true, especially since I've helped him add birds to his list here in CR (an will continue to do so). Some other time. Australia is still on.
some recent photos:
male Flame-colored Tanager
male Collared Trogon
Golden-Olive Woodpecker
Golden-browed Chlorophonia
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Pale-billed Woodpecker
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Man Little Z, 732 is a LOT of BOIDS! Good job, some beautiful feathered friends down there for sure :-)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Really breath-taking birds Little Z. Sorry the guy is such a tool. Most birders are really great people. Before BN's shoulders are fully healed (and he disappears on climbing trips!) we'll need to get back to CR to see some of these beauties.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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just had a nice afternoon here at Palo Verde NP. Always a good place for raptors, recently it has been really good for Collared Forest-Falcon. Got photos of three different looks - a creamy-breasted and a white-breasted adult, and a bar-breasted immature.
also got a photo of a pretty Northern Jacana
or is that a pretty dumb Northern Jacana
and finished the day with this as I was rushing back to the station for my dinner
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Just spent 6 hours being skunked by a Kelp Gull, SKUNKED I TELL YOU!
It was seen Thurs and Friday and today's assemblage was a who's who
(with a few punters like me thrown in) of SoCal birding, so I don't
feel so bad. Right. :-(
Nice shots, zMan! Isn't 'jacana' slang for "hold my beer, watch this"?
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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OK, I'll take the bottom of the page. First, holy sh#t all above! AWESOME!
So every year for the last 2-4(?) we get these partially leucistic BC Chickadees hanging around our feeder. I haven't seen them anywhere else. I think there is more than one each year. I'm trying to figure out if:
(1) BC Chickadees always do this (e.g. molting or juvenile phase)
(2) it's a little local sub-population that as a tendency to this phenotype.
(3) or ...
Here's this year's from a few days ago. I should look back and dig up last year's that I posted.
Dar
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Stuck here in Sedona, AZ working. :-)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Darwin, how the hell do you know they're from BC, their accent?
John Hansen, Tony is most likely right about your Ring-billed.
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