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Darwin

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Mar 6, 2012 - 11:47pm PT

Thanks Delhi and Abenda: I like the pictures from far away from me.

It cleared up here in Seattle today and I saw a few new ones: Eurasian Wigeon, Ringnecked Duck, Common Merganser and in the dark on the ride home a Killdeer. I think those have all been tabulated for the ST list(?). The photos below look better expanded by clicking, I think.

I'm thinking that's a female Eurasian behind and right of it.

I have a lot more Wigeon photos, but I'll go easy on the bandwidth. Once I get going, I just can't edit my own photos, so it's more or less all or nothing.
Added in edit: all the Wigeon photos are at:
http://173.160.158.251/postings/2012_03_02_Birds

Tony

Trad climber

Pt. Richmond, CA

Mar 7, 2012 - 08:15pm PT

The first new one for me in the last couple of days,
Common Loon

I don't recall whether it is already on the list.

Tony

Trad climber

Pt. Richmond, CA

Mar 10, 2012 - 03:51pm PT

After stalling out on new birds, I decided to take a long walk through the hilly residential area of Pt. Richmond (some different habitat), and saw a number of new species, some of which we hadn't seen here since moving over a year ago. This has been a good motivator to get out to do some exploring close to home. Thanks Prod.

First off was a Red-breasted Sapsucker.

Then we saw an Oak Titmouse emerging from nest cavity that was used by Nuttal's Woodpeckers last year.

There was a mystery raptor flying high overhead. Heavily cropped photos indicated that it was a Prairie Falcon, which had been our best guess. It appeared to have little or no tail! I guess it was just foreshortening.

There was a first-of-season Warbling Vireo.

Finally a female White-winged Scoter was among a large group of Surf Scoters that had shown up in the aftermath of the recent Herring run and resulting Gull extravaganza.

Here is a list of new species for me. I think several of these are new for the group, too.

White-winged Scoter
Prairie Falcon
White-throated Swift
Allen's Hummingbird
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Warbling Vireo
Oak Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Cedar Waxwing
Townsend's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Dark-eyed Junco
House Sparrow

Truthdweller

Trad climber

San Diego, CA

Mar 10, 2012 - 04:54pm PT

Baltimore Aquarium...

Tony

Trad climber

Pt. Richmond, CA

Mar 13, 2012 - 02:02am PT

California Gnatcatcher is high on my to-see list.

Here are my new ones over the last few days:

Osprey
Sora (heard)
Northern Flicker
Pacific Loon
Peregrine Falcon

climbski2

Mountain climber

Anchorage AK, Reno NV

Mar 13, 2012 - 02:22am PT

Well guess I have one worthy to report.

Flew right over my house today. Not too common in these parts. (Reno)

Bald Eagle

cyndiebransford

climber

31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska

Mar 14, 2012 - 02:54am PT

Today I saw a Chesnut-backed Chickadee and two Pine Grosbeaks at my feeders.

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Mar 14, 2012 - 09:47am PT

Tweet tweet. . .

cyndiebransford

climber

31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska

Mar 17, 2012 - 06:55pm PT

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Mar 20, 2012 - 11:19am PT

Nice shot Cyndie! Love the runway high key!

So from the brrrr of the Kenai to another day in paradise, albeit chilly at 52F...

Here ya go Crimps! Red-crowned Parrot (Amazonas viridigenalis)
Don't ya love the heavy-lidded look?
They seem to enjoy stopping by our Chinese Elms first thing in the morning
to wake up the 'hood. I don't get it as I see nothing up there to eat.
You can just see the blue nape and red wing patch.
Stoopid auto-focus! Plus I had just put eye drops in so I couldn't see.
Actually, the EXIF says it was vibration. Duh, 1/60 @ 300mm.

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Plus there was a Furbird on my roof...Does he count?

TwistedCrank

climber

Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho

Mar 20, 2012 - 11:40am PT

nuthin like a tufted titmouse to start my day.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Mar 20, 2012 - 01:47pm PT

Taking the morning sun. Poor image quality as it is heavily cropped. I can't sweet talk him like I can the parrots.

Crimpergirl

Sport climber

Boulder, Colorado!

Mar 20, 2012 - 01:55pm PT

Thanks Reilly! That is one happy looking Red-Head (Green Cheek and all the others names given that Amazon). They are so similar to the Lilac Crowns. Jovial little guys. I would love having them come to my home.

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Mar 20, 2012 - 02:55pm PT

Cyndie
How much snow up there now? Did you all break 1000"??

Crimpergirl

Sport climber

Boulder, Colorado!

Mar 20, 2012 - 03:11pm PT

It is surprising how often we catch birds with their nictating membrane closed. And the half closed eye - so sweet! Sleepy bird. :)

cyndiebransford

climber

31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska

Mar 20, 2012 - 11:23pm PT

We broke the record for Kenai with over 100 inches this winter. It snowed another 6 inches today. I am not sure when we will be rid of all the snow around here, maybe the beginning of June.

Tony

Trad climber

Pt. Richmond, CA

Mar 21, 2012 - 12:09am PT

Cyndie,
That's a cool feeder. Are the Snow Buntings still around?

Slater,
Considering where you live, I'm sure you can get to 200. Fall migration should yield lots of goodies.

The recent rain seemed to increase the local bird activity. Maybe spring has something to do with it, too.

Here are my new ones over the last week (the ones with a * I think are new for the group):

95. Red-throated Loon*
96. Great Blue Heron
97. Lincoln's Sparrow*
98. Say's Phoebe*
99. Merlin
100. Brown Creeper*
101. Killdeer
102. Eurasian Wigeon
103. Caspian Tern*

Here are some photos. Only the Brown Creeper was new.