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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Oh forgot these...
veritable apartment living...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Cool DD! Tell me about the Hoopoe please. He looks like quite the rascal. Just read that the Hoopoe is the Israeli National Bird.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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DD - cool bird 'apartment' complex!
DonC - Glad you enjoy the pix :-) I use a Canon DSLR and a 100-400mm lens for most shots. Here are a few more from this last year...
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Crimp- that Hoopoe is one of my favorites.
He's has this crown that he spreads out on top, kinda like woody wood pecker in the cartoons. Spends a lot of time on the ground. This dude was getting into it with a squirrel. Unfortunately I missed capturing the action...
Here's a few more-not as good a shots as I'm seeing above but still gives you an idea...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jan 11, 2011 - 09:22pm PT
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Mimi
climber
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While putting out a new seed block for the chickadees today, a falcon or small hawk crashed the scene and landed above my head in a mimosa tree. The bushtits, sparrows, and chickadees fled from the suet/seed feeders to the nearby shrubs for cover. They lucked out. The raptor stayed on its perch for a minute or two while I froze watching it. It finally flew to a nearby tree and then flew away. The small birds split. Wish I could stake out some fresh meat for the raptor. Beautiful bird.
Amazing pics everyone! Flying lizards. Gotta love them.
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john hansen
climber
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Incredible shot's everyone.
Here is one from a few weeks back, fishing off the Big island.
A Brown booby, on a buoy.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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BrassNuts is head to SoCal next month. One destination is the Ranchos Palos Verdes. Do you have suggestions for bird chasing in that area? (He's dictating!)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oh I want a bulbul! I all direct BN to your helpful ideas...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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There are always peafowl at my parents home - normals and white ones, adults and babies - so those are easy (though not checked off).
Just too SEE a Bulbul would be cool. I actually stopped keeping a life list a few years ago. With my aging memory, many birds are new birds. :)
Still, I don't go on this trip so no Bulbul (checked or not) for me. Boo. But hopefully BN can see one. They are cool.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache, NM
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:21am PT
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Spent some time yesterday bobbing around with Pt. Arena Cove's (winter) resident Laysan Albatross. This year marks the 18th consecutive winter for this friendly beast.
A short video clip: http://vimeo.com/19951817
PS - Incidentally, afterwards I paddled out to watch the surfers in the N. break. The surf was LOUD, and I was so busy watching the action and looking over my shoulder for big sets that might clobber me, that I never noticed the small gray whale surfacing a very short distance behind me. I was only told about it after I came back in.
Additional perspective edit - big bird:
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Feb 15, 2011 - 02:27am PT
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Nothing like a giant fish boil to bring out the birds and dolphins-Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 15, 2011 - 03:48am PT
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hey there say, all... it is very hard for me to get pics of birds... but say, i have a very clear shot of this one, of recent:
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john hansen
climber
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Feb 21, 2011 - 12:33am PT
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Went up to the 6,000 to 8,000 foot elevation up on Mauna Kea today. Got pictures of four Hawaiian honey creepers. Sorry for the quality and over saturation on these photo's,, getting crisp shots of birds is really hard. I still have a lot to learn.
Looking up at the slopes of Mauna Kea from about the 5000 foot level The Mamane forest can be seen in the distance.
An Amakahi
An O'oma, I saw him doing the shivering thing that identifies them so well.
An out of focus shot of an Elepio..
And last, two photo's of the elusive Palila..
I actually thought I was taking pictures of another Amakahi until I got home and tweaked the pictures and could see it was a Palila. Only about 3000 left in the world.
Next time I will get an alpine start and get up there early morning instead of 10AM. Lots of birds up there. I really need to work on focus and lighting .
Aloha
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Feb 21, 2011 - 12:37am PT
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Blurry or not, love the photos!! Thanks for sharing them.
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john hansen
climber
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Feb 21, 2011 - 01:16am PT
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I've seen that Brassnuts posted that he got most of his shot's with a 300 mm lens. I was using a 400 with a extra lens to double it to 800.
I think I need to become a better stalker and be willing to wait longer for them to show them selves and for the shot to present itself..
Auto focus is really hard when you are trying to shoot through branch's and leaves for a narrow field of focus on a bird.
Any tips?
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