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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Aug 23, 2014 - 08:16am PT
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Here are a couple from near Bozeman Montana.
Savannah Sp.
Eastern kingbird (lifer)
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 23, 2014 - 08:40am PT
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Dee ee, I'm afraid that's a Cassin's. No question with that bill.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Aug 23, 2014 - 09:56am PT
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Wow Willoughby, if you say so. I'm still not seeing it though. It looks like it has all the other field marks of a PUFI. (?)
edit- I do see the difference in bill shape. Could it be a hybrid?
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Aug 23, 2014 - 10:42am PT
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here is one of my worst contributions, but it is bird-climbing related, so there. A Band-tailed Pigeon nestling in the pine tree right at the base of Surrealistic Pilar at Lover's Leap. It is very distracting when the adult comes wooshing in or out.
Will, sorry I missed your talk last night but we got back late from Tuolumne. Went to Talac beach and Taylor Creek on Thursday and saw the notice for your talk. Was fun to see a Red-shouldered Hawk there, one of the few I've seen out west, although according to eBird looks like they are expanding their range.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 23, 2014 - 10:52am PT
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john hansen
climber
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Aug 23, 2014 - 11:33am PT
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I don't know ,, that sure looks like an Eastern Kingbird to me.
Sibley's shows that even the juvenile Cassin's has yellow stomach area with a dark grey breast. Not seeing anything like that.
Is the bill somewhat obscured by the bug it is holding?
Dee ee where did you see this bird?
EDIT: never mind
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Aug 23, 2014 - 12:54pm PT
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John, Willoughby was commenting on my Finch seen a few posts higher!
Oh, the Kingbird was near Bozeman Mt. and the Finch was on Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Aug 23, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
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A few more trip birds.
Osprey-Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Sandhill Cranes-Yellowstone
Black-billed Magpie-Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone
Barrow's Goldeneye-Ice Lake, Yellowstone
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Aug 24, 2014 - 08:18am PT
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Plan B
Ice climber
SoCal
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Aug 25, 2014 - 05:10am PT
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Looks like a fun trip o Yellowstone Dee ee!
That Cassin's Finch would have had me fooled. So for fun I tried that new Cornell Merlin app, which said it is a Cassin's. Then I checked the distribution maps which say Purples don't like to go to Yellowstone.
Another point besides bill that Willoughby pointed out.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Aug 25, 2014 - 09:43am PT
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Yeah, I knew it was out of range (I thought) but I've seen so many birds out of range in the last 2 years it didn't seem important!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 25, 2014 - 09:54am PT
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Bob, nice juvie hummer!
Dee, don't beat yerself up, I've turned a few Least Sandipipers into
Long-toed Stints. But at least they were within hypothetical range (PNW). ;-)
And yer Osprey shot is COOL!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 25, 2014 - 10:23am PT
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Connie Sidles, a birding person of note here in Seattle, pointed out a really good field mark to me for Purple Finches, but it's only on the females. Only the female Purple Finches have and obvious pale supercilium and submoustacial stripe. It forms what I call a bridle. I now look around for the females first. The other finches have the submoustacial stripe, but not teh supercilium. The one time I heard a Purple Finch sing, it stood out as something different to me before I could see it and had help identifying the bird.
I got my best and only non-ambiguous view of a Warbling Vireo Saturday on a climbing trip to Leavenworth. I know most of you think of them as common as dirt, and everyone around here seems to seem them a lot during migration, so it's been a source of frustration to me. I had to kind of talk myself into the one that I claimed for STBY (not proud of that!). Anyway we were having coconut water down by the river after climbing, and I as we left the car I grabbed my binocs, 'cause you never know what might popup. It was a good day and climbing was fun.
This should be a better image of the Grebe family.
http://173.160.158.251/postings/2014-08-04/post/grebs_se.jpg
(do any of you know how to imbed
<img src="http://173.160.158.251/postings/2014-08-04/post/grebs_se.jpg"> into a ST posting
so the image pops up without reformatting? The [img] syntax doesn't do it.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Aug 25, 2014 - 10:27am PT
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CClarke
climber
La Paz, Bolivia
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Aug 25, 2014 - 06:14pm PT
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Nasca Booby:
Marine Iguana:
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Aug 25, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
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Mmmmm, boobies.
My third to last good bird of the trip was this first year Ferruginous Hawk. It was right by the road, we were exiting Dinosaur Nat. Mon. via an obscure dirt road.
Beauty!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 25, 2014 - 08:42pm PT
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Nice Dave!
Hope you guys are having a great trip.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 25, 2014 - 09:33pm PT
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Berry nice Ferruginous, Dee!
There was a Nazca Bubby seen and photographed just off San Diego recently.
It seems it was just south of the border SO IT DIDN'T COUNT!
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Aug 26, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
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Brewer's Blackbird hanging out at the Burger Barn in Bridgeport
Reilly, I see they are still debating that booby, it was less than a full adult, a plumage that is poorly known in both Masked and Nazca, and the fact that it may be a hybrid are all topics being discussed.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Aug 26, 2014 - 08:01pm PT
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I finally got my first OC Cattle Egret! It was an epic search.
Mile Square Park-HB
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