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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Jul 22, 2014 - 12:18pm PT
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Nice list Cyndie! If I were with you I would have had 5 lifers!
Just got back from Sierra east side trip with my son Jake. He spotted this Bald Eagle while we were boating on Lake Crowley.
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CClarke
climber
La Paz, Bolivia
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Jul 22, 2014 - 08:23pm PT
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I have some photos from the Galapagos that I took over the last few weeks. Rather than dumping them all at once, I will set them out bird by bird, at least for the endemics, for as long as you can stand the mediocre quality of the photos.
Galapagos Penguin:
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john hansen
climber
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Jul 22, 2014 - 09:33pm PT
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CClark ,Looking forward to your photos.
Here are a couple more shot's from last Friday's trip to Hakalau NWR.
I have to admit I had a bit of "buck fever" seeing these very rare bird's for the first time. It was hard to keep the lens from shaking.
They are doing a great job at this refuge. They have put up 45 miles of fencing to keep pigs and goats out, and have planted almost a million native trees in the last 35 years. All the understory is starting to fill back in with native plants ,and the cattle and sheep have not grazed there for 20 years.
If any one comes to the big Island and wants to go up I would highly recommend this guide, and gladly pay my share to go up there again.
Really old Ohia trees and 100 ft tall Koa.
This is a singing Akaipola"au. It took the wood pecker nitch on Hawaii Island.
It uses it's lower beak like a wood pecker and then uses the curved upper bill to extract grubs from the outer branches of Koa trees.
Cool Bird,,
Here is one of a mature male Akepa, about the size of a bush tit but very brightly colored. Quick little bugger's.
Looking forward to the Galopagos photo's
Darwin,, are those Wood duck gosling's?
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CClarke
climber
La Paz, Bolivia
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Jul 23, 2014 - 06:57pm PT
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Here's a few shots of the Waved Albatross:
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 23, 2014 - 08:01pm PT
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^ Albatross!!!!
Another juvenile that I only got by vocalizations (v. characteristic in my neck of the woods). Maybe I would have gotten it from the photo in retrospect.
It's not my imagination that the image below looks sharper than image above, right?
http://173.160.158.251/postings/2014_07_12_birds/display/P1000612.jpg
The first displayed one is the uploaded image of the one given in the link. *Is there a way around that, or is that one of the necessary perils of forum software? *
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john hansen
climber
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Jul 23, 2014 - 08:36pm PT
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Your link looks much better, I guess you could post just the links but that's not a good solution.. maybe post the link under the photo?
But yes the link is way better. Great shot.
EDIT: if you get your mouse over the picture it says. "Click to enlarge".
so if you click on the photo it links to the better version.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Jul 24, 2014 - 06:03pm PT
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Darwin,
When I downloaded the enlarged version and the version from your link, they looked the same to me. Maybe it depends on the display? I've been puzzled by those before. What was feeding it?
John,
That's quite a list of native Hawaii birds. We've only managed a handful on Kauai on a couple of trips.
I thought this video clip of a courting pair of Waved (Galapagos) Albatross would complement CClarke's photos. They are pretty charming.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 24, 2014 - 06:33pm PT
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Great photos everyone.
When to Mexico for a few days to buy some pottery, the birds were lean. Here are few from the last few days here in NM and few from Mexico.
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john hansen
climber
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Jul 24, 2014 - 06:47pm PT
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Bob, is that a Black Vulture?
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CClarke
climber
La Paz, Bolivia
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Jul 24, 2014 - 07:48pm PT
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Here's a few shots of the Galapagos Hawk:
I'm going off to climb for three days but will continue with more Galapagos birds later.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 25, 2014 - 10:11am PT
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John...Turkey Vulture.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 25, 2014 - 05:25pm PT
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We've had a Ruff (Reeve) in the OC for the last 3 days.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 25, 2014 - 09:38pm PT
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I sure like this thread, y'all above.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 26, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
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A few from today.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 27, 2014 - 05:12pm PT
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bump
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 27, 2014 - 06:30pm PT
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Good day at the Bosque...
Female Bullock's Oriole
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john hansen
climber
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Jul 27, 2014 - 09:08pm PT
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Hey Bob , in your July 26 photos what are the birds in the first photo?
Two yellow legs with a ? in between?
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 27, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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John...Wilson's Phalarope with it's young ones.
Hope all is well and love your shots.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 30, 2014 - 11:56am PT
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Just a little bump.
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