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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Once again, thanks, y'all.
What can you say about Tony's and Mike's exotics but: Awesome!
Rufous Fantail fanning and Lyrebirds!!!, and the Frogmouths get to me.
I didn't realize Hoopoes has such a huge range. Is it one species? Falcon shot, and ... !!!
I have to admit that I've always had a disproportionate fondness for the California Towhee, partly because they just plain refuse to come up here.They hang around human habitation, but I don't see them scavenging around eateries and such. And their understated elegance gets to me.
Nice photo of the Northern Shrike. It seems unfair that they are not more common here in Seattle.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Great photos Tony, Mike and dee...A few from Bosque del Apache, was down there for a couple of days. One of my most favorite spots in the world.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Haven't been here in a while and I've missed out! Great stuff!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Where you been, Crimpie?????
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Where you been, Crimpie?????
Somebody at that Boulder pizza joint found her wedged in the squeeze chimney behind the ice machine.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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I can't compete with any of this, but I did have a decent afternoon here at overcast and gloomy Tahoe. I watched a Peregrine pick off an Eared Grebe, which was fun for me and the falcon, probably not so much for the grebe. Tried to get some closer shots of the falcon feeding on the beach, but there is no such thing as "sneaking up" on a Peregrine.
These things have been eating well lately, with bones and feather puddles and assorted carnage all over the beach. Everything from Steller's Jay to Gadwall to gulls to an ibis. It's a jungle out there, I tell ya!
Also managed to find a White-throated Sparrow, which is a pretty good bird for these parts. Crap photo, but it was getting close to twilight at this point, and I'm just happy to have documented it:
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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A few more from the Bosque. Dowitcher's, Grebe's, Snow goose and Say's Phoebe.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Willoughby, did you see my report a few pages back where I saw a flock of
Horned Grebes way up at Lk South America* (12,200') in late Sept? I saw
them at sunset and they must have left early although, to be honest, we
got up late. Saw one of them about noon at another lake a tad lower but
he was by himself.
*NW from Tyndall Cr RS by Mt Ericsson
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Beautiful White Breasted Nuthatch on my hike today.
Need help on this one...it was with Chickadee's and Kinglet's. Sorry it is not sharp, he was bopping all over the place.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Hey Bob,
very nice photos, thanks.
Looks like you bagged a good one with that last photo. That would be a Northern Parula. A nice continuation of the vagrant-eastern-warblers-showing-up-out-west theme that dee ee has going. Spread the word! with a photo to back it up, everyone in your area will want to hear about it and go lookin'.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Thanks Little Z...it was in Boulder out at Walden Ponds.
I'm also coming to CR in January for some dental work for my wife.
I need to pick your brains for birding info near San Jose.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Northern Parula, Nice!
I just returned from working on San Clemente Island for 3 days, I will post some photes soon. I've got a couple of good ones (photes and species).
edit: Ooh, ooh, I just checked the RBA (Rare Bird Alert) and Sandhill Cranes have been seen this week in OC. I had two at the Back Bay in 3/2012 right before we started the Human Powered Big Year (and I was in my car). I NEED them for this year.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Nice birds Bob! Love the Northern Parula. The only one I've see here in Boulder was a dead one on our front porch a few years ago. :( Sad.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Got lucky on this handsome Red Tail Hawk (Edit) today...went back to try to get a better shot of the Northern Parula but he might be in Mexico by now. :-)
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Great Harrier shots Bob!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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San Clemente Island locals.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
White-throated Sparrow
Bell's Sage Sparrow, this is one of the endemic, non-migrating, endangered species there. They also have an endangered Loggerhead Shrike, only ~70 nesting pairs left, up from 15 birds though. They were very near extinction (the San Clemente Island ones).
Horned Lark
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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We saw this Raven with a weird white wing patch. Under photo enlargement it turned out it was tagged. One of the island bird biologists, Ben Sandstrom, said there was a guy studying them and tagged a bunch. Then his study ran out of money and he left. Now these poor guys are stuck with this trash.
Pacific-slope Flycatcher, rare out there.
There were a ton of White-crowned Sparrows over there
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Hey Bob, that's a Red-tail. Great photos regardless!
PS - Reilly, I didn't catch it, but that's super cool at that elevation. It's probably no big deal for birds that are already migrating at altitude, but still, always wild to see them so out of their usual context.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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"Hey Bob, that's a Red-tail. Great photos regardless!"
OK...Look like a harrier from the ground, very narrow body, almost owl like head. The beak is to long for a harrier.
Thanks.
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