Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 06:09am PT
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This is great info! Riley, why is that Oriole not an Altamira?
Floyd, thanks for the cool website as well.
We need to do a ST birders weekend for real. Dang, I'd learn soooo much!
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 07:33am PT
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Okay dokey. Thanks for that. Gotta grab a pile of books off my shelf now...
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scuffy b
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Bates Creek
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Jun 13, 2007 - 08:01am PT
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Riley, isn't your first bird a Rail? Virginia? Clapper?
About your accipiter...isn't it strange that you got your
Cornell genius to commit to anything, based only on that photo?
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 08:22am PT
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Sibley is good no doubt. But I hate carrying it with me. It's big and I can't bear fouling it up.
The Kaufmann book is a good traveling book. It's small and lightweight. I have several that live around (in the car, in my room over looking field and bird feeders, etc.). It's inexpensive enough I don't mind replacing it when it gets lost (like in Snow Canyon a couple of years ago, doh) or ruined.
As far as the gulls - heck, even with guides I'm generally at a loss. I find it interesting that what most people find as the most common boring birds (e.g., gulls, sparrows) are the most challenging for birders.
THANKS Floyd for that birding url. I will be preparing my letter of resignation here at work since my firing for goofing off online is now imminent. :)
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pc
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East of Seattle
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Jun 13, 2007 - 09:28am PT
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New Species discovered in China...
Gigantoraptor. Double overhead at the shoulders!
From Reuters...
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 10:39am PT
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Radical,
I need to be able to see the tail to make a positive ID on the mystery bird. It's nearly impossible to tell an adult female sharp-shinned hawk from and adult male cooper's hawk with out seeing the tail.
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 10:56am PT
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The wren is a bewicks. The only wren I haven't seen...
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Kevin Calder
climber
Bishop
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Jun 13, 2007 - 11:36am PT
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Riley...Thanks for the correction. I've been calling those Bullocks for a while now. I'm a pretty novice IDer, and had told a friend that is really good that I'd seen an Altamira and he had said it was probably a Bullocks.I actually get a kick out of telling him I've seen birds that could't possibly be around here!
The Bewicks photo was taken above Round Valley in the Eastern Sierra as was the Oriole.
Quartzflight...Merlin in the net?
Beautiful yellow headed something or other?
Juvy raven?
Awesome photo....Prairie Falcons?
No idea...?
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 01:14pm PT
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1)black chinned hummer(I'm pretty weak on my humming birds)
2)SNEG
3)AMKE
4)That's some sapsucker I don't know
5)GREG
6)GHOW chics
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 01:14pm PT
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Kevin,
Good guesses, but wrong on all..
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 01:43pm PT
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Quartzflight, I'll give it a shot:
Kestrel in the net?
Golden Crowned Kinglet
Ani (forgetting fully name right now)
Merlins (guessing here)
Black throated grey warbler?
edit: now that i *think* about it, my last guess is silly. doh!
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 02:29pm PT
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Good job crimpa girl.
wrong on the last two.
Clues:
THe falcons are ultra rare in the US. Most of the birds were hacked by the pergrine fund in the SW.
The warbler's call is like a souped up black-throated blue warblers call.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 02:44pm PT
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I saw a bunch of the Golden Crowned Kinglets at Hawk Mountain one year. Beautiful little birds. Let me go back to the drawing board on those last two.
**this has been such fun!
Edit: A Cerulean? I'm not even sure it's a warbler now. Sort of have a flycatcher head...
edit edit: I see Radical posted Cerulean at the same time!
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Jun 13, 2007 - 02:47pm PT
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I have been studying Humming Birds...in my feeder. "Aggressive" little bastards they are!
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Blinny
Trad climber
TheHolyMont
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Jun 13, 2007 - 02:51pm PT
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Kev. . . when we get all the beta on that Tamarack Reunion we'll decided if we're gonna make it. . . do you have any news?
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Thanks in advance!
Kath and Mark
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