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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I'd say it is clearly a Black-headed based on the dark bill, especially the
upper, and the buffy eyebrow. Furthermore, the RBGR female's breast would
be much lighter and streaked.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Reilly,
Lucky for me I usually sleep outside naked, but the steak is usually on the inside of my belly. I wonder if that'll still work?
Momma and baby...
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Happy 4th of July to everyone.
Swainson's Hawk on the way to the store today.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Great shot, Bob!
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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I need to spend more time on the interwebz. Took quite awhile to catch up on this great and active thread. But it was worth it, lots of cool birds from all over. I particularly like the shots of birds from Costa Rica and other places I've never visited. If a person isn't careful they could learn a lot about birds from a thread like this.
In May I kind of switched gears from a bird-centric world to a mammal focused world (I posted some pics in the 'Animals seen while climbing' thread). But I've still managed to get quite a few birdy shots. Here are a few of them.
A Red-Winged Blackbird chasing a Red-Tailed Hawk
A Red-Tailed Hawk chasing a Bald Eagle
The Hawk snags a feather trophy while the eagle says 'Ouch'.
The Red Tail makes another pass
The White Crowned Sparrow says 'Brrr, feet very cold, must get to warm rock!'
White Tailed Ptarmigan
Have a fun 4th everyone.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Not my photo!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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OK, a couple of common boids.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Arrrgh, Ebird got hacked!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mongolia: Eagles hunting
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Crimpergirl: Nothing is more strange than seeing people or birds or animals or lichens as familiar. What we see as familiar we should see as new - at least once in a while. The world is full of wonder... The pictures of "common" birds are great. Great thread...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Love all the photos! I like photos of common birds. Often they show well the beautiful details that so many over look. For example, an American Robin or a Blue Jay. Common. Commonly over-looked...beautiful birds! Same with all the others. Why should we neglect any?
My mom was in town last week and said she'd never seen a Bald Eagle. Never!!! Whoa. So we went looking and found a nest with one adult and two young (both had fledged). It was really cool. Can't believe she'd never see one!
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Wow, great stuff. Whenever we get to the end of a page, I'm always sorry to see it go, but then wait in anticipation of what wonderful stuff will be out on the next one!
That Bald Eagle and Red-tail sequence is awesome, especially that last shot.
Here's a trick for Crested Caracaras, not quite like Reilly's idea of pretending to be roadkill, but playing off the same. Not sure if it would work in Arizona, but if there is a paved highway that runs through an area where Crested Caracaras are found regularly, I bet they will be out at first light flying right over the middle of the highway to get first crack at the previous night's roadkill and assorted scraps. It's a very predictable thing here in Costa Rica.
A stack of Montezuma Quail, now that would be a sight!
Yes, eBird has been hacked, but apparently only the home page (of all portals) and "About eBird" page. Until the problem is solved, they have put a re-direct in place so that eBird now opens to the "View and Explore Data" page. They say the data entry, explore data, and my eBird pages are all safe (on a different server) and running normally. Sure hope that story doesn't change.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Little Z, my suggestion was for attracting the jaguar, not the caracara.
After the jaguar finds Slater then the caracara will. ;-)
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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4th of July birds at the Kenai River bird viewing platform...
also saw dowitchers, greenwinged teal, bald eagles, glaucous-winged gulls, arctic terns, pintail ducks, sandhill cranes and peeps.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Great stuff/shots everyone.
Pretty little Eastern Phoebe on my hike this AM.
And saw this beautiful Blue Grosbeak on mountain bike this afternoon.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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A few beauties on this morning walk. When back with a longer lens to capture the Grosbeak. Really stunning little birds.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Beta update:
Princeton Press has just released the Crossley Guide to Raptors - no excuses if you have this.
For us members of the Helen Keller Birding Society there is Larkwire's
Master Birder audio study app. $15 and so far it seems well worth it.
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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I just spent two and half hours loading my life birds into the i-bird journal app. I am very excited to be able to update my list on the go and make new lists too.
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