Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 26, 2013 - 01:13pm PT
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Dee ee, yes, very nice! How did you get him to pose so?
One of my most prized lifers is a Lesser I saw fly by in Kansas about half
past oh-dark-thirty.
Here's a real lifer for y'all: Southern Giant Petrel.
He's a bruiser at about 35" long! Rarely seen anywhere close to shore we
were extremely fortunate to see him/her in the Beagle Channel south of
Ushuaia. They will come inshore in bad weather but this was great weather,
by Fuegian standards. Hey, it didn't rain but a few times that day and the
wind never got above 15 kts! Sweetness!
This is a 3rd year immature IMHO.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Jan 27, 2013 - 12:22am PT
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dee ee,
Sorry to hear about your accident. I imagine there were some cool desert birds at the springs you mentioned. It's good you have some nice birds to entertain you during your rehab. The first photo looks like an Orange-crowned Warbler. Maybe the oxycodone will produce some more exotic sightings.
Reilly, those Giant Petrels are definitley imposing. Here's a Least Bittern that was around two years ago. It was pretty entertaining to watch skulking around and fishing.
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Riley Wyna
Trad climber
A crack near you
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Jan 27, 2013 - 09:54am PT
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The first photo looks like an Orange-crowned Warbler
Dee ee - Orange crowned along with Yellow Rumped will be one of the primary Warblers you will see.
There is considerable variation in Orange Crowned and they can be confusing at first - you rarely see the Orange Crown but ya can see it often - if that makes sense.
They are best identified by their drabness and some of the marks displayed very well by your photograph.
Check out Sibley to get a good feel for them - they can be tricky when fall warblers are around but they still have their own look.
Dee ee - that is a very awesome and rare shot of a A. Bittern . I have only seen two - and it was a very hard lifer to get. I ran through dry reed marshes and finally scared one up - probably spent weeks worth of time over a few years trying to see one..
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Michelle
Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
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Jan 27, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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Any taco birders here on the sf peninsula?
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Jan 27, 2013 - 11:59am PT
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Mr. Dave Evans, I hope your shoulder heals quickly.
I was supposed to go to Seward yesterday to look for the rare Siberian Accentor, however the winds were blowing 40 mph and the temperature was in the minus degrees and my birder friends decided not to go. I was disappointed and could have gone alone, but it is 180 miles roundtrip winter mountain driving. I chose to stay home. So, I took photos of my feeders instead. We had no wind but it was -18 in the morning and the high was 6 degrees.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:25pm PT
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Thankyou Cyndie! Have fun up there in the cold!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 27, 2013 - 04:18pm PT
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An albino Black-crowned Night Heron from Hahn Park in LA
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Jan 27, 2013 - 05:13pm PT
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The Whitney/Williamson cam system
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 27, 2013 - 10:29pm PT
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Thanks for the photos:
Least Bittern, beautiful.
Red Polls a rarity around here, and darn pretty.
(weird) Black Crowned Night Heron
good photo of the Flicker
I paddled around a point in pre-Exon-Valez Prince William Sound and found myself in the middle of a raft of Harlequin Ducks. I recognized them immediately and have been fascinated them ever since. Since then I've only seen them four times or so, and I had never seen them in Seattle proper in the 20 years I've lived here. This year another bicycling birder mentioned a marina an hour's bike ride away where they sometimes hang. So, I know they are not the best quality photos (no sympathy deserved from Cyndie, but my fingers did get numb in the cold wind and rain) and there are too many of them, but they sure are cool birds. I'm still trying for a really good photo of them.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Sorry Kittie!
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Today I drove down to Seward in search of the Siberian Accentor, a rare bird in these parts. It was 36 degrees, no wind and light rain in Seward. I arrived about 10:00AM and there were three other birders from Anchorage looking for the bird as well. We all traded phone numbers and searched. At about 12:30 the other three left to look for other birds while I continued to look around "ground zero" a two block radius where the bird has been consistently seen. I got a call from one of the other birders as I told them that I had not seen a Yellow-billed Loon. They had one in the bay and in less than five minutes I was there looking at it through the scope. Now that is the way to bird! Back to "ground zero" where I saw a Brambling, a Gray-crowned Rosy Finch but no Accentor. Then the phone rang and we ran as quickly as we could on icy roads up a block where a local birder had the Siberian Accentor in sight. We all had good looks for about 30 minutes as it scratched at the clear ground under some spruce trees. Awesome! I got 4 life birds today. It was a great day to bird.
I am posting some photos from Carol Griswald, she is the local birder in Seward that helped us find the Accentor. Thanks Carol.
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axlgrease
Mountain climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Here are a few from a recent trip to Kaua'i.
Nene (Hawaiian Goose) taken at the Kiluea Point National Wildlife Refuge:
Laysan Albatross taken on the north shore of Kaua'i:
These guys have a rookery in a neighborhood on the north shore of Kaua'i. They return to the same nesting site each year, and can live for 60+ years. Apparently, this was a nesting site, and it looks like they built a subdivision there. Now they nest on the lawns, in the flowerbeds, and next to driveways. The homeowners are very protective of them, so I won't give away the exact location.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Holy smokes, Cyndie, those are some terrific birds! Here are a couple from your neck of the woods, but currently hanging out in moderately deep water in Lake Tahoe off Tahoe City, pair of Long-tailed Ducks. I took these photos from my kayak today:
They've been hanging out in that corner of the lake for about two weeks now. I've seen one other pair of Long-taileds in Lake Tahoe, but these were certainly my closest looks!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Cyndie, very nice!
I'll never get those in the OC.
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