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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 13, 2012 - 02:22am PT
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Yo Brassnuts, the female Tree Swallow has a leg band. Did you notice?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 13, 2012 - 02:33am PT
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Nice website Tom!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jul 13, 2012 - 12:01pm PT
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Jul 13, 2012 - 07:21pm PT
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Tony - your pics a few pages back are awesome. what a cool thread to follow.
Bob - i'm close to taking your bino's off your hands. great deal.
I wish I was a photographer to be able to share. Thx for posting everybody.
Hey Slater - you doin' any shorebirdin'. that'll get your life list up in a hurry.
your mystery bird may be an eastern kingbird that got off course. rare but it happens. Doesn't quite look like a shrike.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 13, 2012 - 08:29pm PT
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Western Scrub-Jaybro, indeed. You can even see the supercilium.
Mike, your flycatcher looks big, with a massive bill. Pac-Slope is a little yellow guy with a bold, almond shaped eye-ring. I'd go Olive-sided Fly in a heartbeat if it weren't apparently so dingy all underneath. That's still probably what it was, and it does look a little gapey, so maybe it's just a youngster. But perhaps geography/habitat can help further. Where was that?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 13, 2012 - 11:35pm PT
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Willoughby, the fly catcher on the previous page was in Santa Cruz. Size was bigger than a black Phoebe, smaller than an acorn woodpecker.
Here is a shot of what I think is an Ash-Throated Flycatcher from the same area. Quite certain they are different birds.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 14, 2012 - 01:20am PT
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Spilt...you buy..I'll pay shipping. They are really amazing binoculars.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 14, 2012 - 06:53pm PT
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Willoughby -
perhaps that is a Western Wood PeeWee on the previous page (I had guessed pacific slope fly catcher) Here is another photo I got today that shows the belly better:
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 14, 2012 - 08:08pm PT
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A couple from today...the Kestrel shot is a little washed out but pretty cool. Varmints...don't mess with birds of prey..you're gonna die.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 14, 2012 - 09:40pm PT
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OPERATION BIRD RESCUE!!!!!
Sooo I have not had a chance to check off many new lifers while here in Canada thus far. I'm on a 3 acre island in northern lake Huron surrounded by 3000 other islands all are rockey and mostly deserted. Birding is tough, but it is an amazing place and I'm sure I just need to learn how to bit properly in this new environment.
OK on to the rescue...
Therr is a pair of yellow warblers that nest in a pine tree near our dock. One of their babies fell out of the best today and landed near the path. The parent(s) were goin crazy and it took awhile to even notice the little guy flipping around in the pine needles. I don't know what to do so I got a small plastic container, cut holes in the bottom, and lined it with paper towel and pine needles. I scooped the bird up without touchin it and I placed it in a secure spot low in the tree but the parents just kept going back to the spot on the ground to look for it. Worried I moved the makeshift nest back to the ground near where it fell. The parent eventually found the baby and I saw the baby get fed by one parent. What should I do???? Leave as is? Move makeshift nest back into tree? It might start raining tonight. The baby was not flying yet, but obviouslly got out of the nest and was trying to flutter its wings as I scooped it up. It was not even to the point of walking/hopping yet :(((( HELP!!!
Matt
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 14, 2012 - 10:47pm PT
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nice Kestrel
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 14, 2012 - 10:58pm PT
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WOW mike crazy good detail on that hummer. Was that with the 300 f4 or the 300 2.8? Did you get the 300 f4 new or used? Autofocus yes?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 14, 2012 - 11:12pm PT
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That hummer is with the f4. It is the AFS (most recent model) and I picked it up used. The f2.8 is no sharper, but having VR and f2.8 is really nice at dusk.
Here are a couple of shots with the 300 f/2.8 VRII. Did not have that many opportunities this afternoon:
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Jul 15, 2012 - 12:40am PT
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Matty, my friend who is a song bird rescuer says to put it back in the nest. It is not true that if you touch it the parents will reject it.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 15, 2012 - 05:49am PT
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Thanks Cyndie but although i think I know what tree the nest is in, I don't know where the actual nest is (maybe too high). I'll look again today and put it back if I can. The little guy survived the night (no rain yet) and I think I saw a parent feeding it just now....
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 15, 2012 - 03:50pm PT
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Thx DMT always enjoy your input.
Just got back from
A boat ride. Found an osprey nest with 2 little ones and caught a parent down the channel fishing. Have pics but can't upload now.
Operation bird rescue continues...the baby flopped out of the temporary nest and has spent the day under some small plants. It looks better than yesterday and no rain yet.
Time to eat
Matt
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 15, 2012 - 07:02pm PT
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OK Matty -
Did a pretty-good test of the sharpness (and contrast) of the Nikon 300mm f2/8 and the Nikon 300mm f/4. tweaked the microfocus adjustment, then used a tripod, fixed iso and shot away. To me, the two lenses are pretty much identical in sharpness for the apertures where they overlap. Wide open (f/2.8 vs f/4) the less expensive lens looks a little sharper.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 15, 2012 - 10:28pm PT
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