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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Sep 10, 2014 - 02:45pm PT
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Bob, that Sora tricked us by landing in the water! I have never seen a rail swimming. At that distance and in that lighting I sure couldn't tell. When I edited the photo it was obvious. Telephotos are pretty amazing.
Here are a few from the trip. I cleaned up on hummers.
Yellow-eyed Junco
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Plain-capped Starthroat
White-eared Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Sep 10, 2014 - 03:37pm PT
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Sounds like an epic trip guys. Water in the desert was crazy.
Dave, really like that broad-bill photo.
Edit - I saw a couple of Bronze Mannys in the yard with flock of Gold Finches. They seem to be getting around.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 10, 2014 - 03:41pm PT
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Great photos Dave, here are few more from our trip. Mostly cloudy and gray made for some less than stellar conditions.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Sep 10, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
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The female Blue Grosbeaks threw me for a loop until the last couple days.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Sep 10, 2014 - 06:01pm PT
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I did not get a good PARE photo.
Hepatic Tanager
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Bob, shooting a Wilson's Warbler and a Nashville Warbler bathing.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 12, 2014 - 05:28pm PT
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This thread was on page 4 bump.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 12, 2014 - 05:35pm PT
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Magnificent HB (damn they are big!)
Lucifer (rare)
Gray Hawk
Elegant Trogon (the trip would have been a failure without this baby!)
Red-faced Warbler (my last goal and difficult since the locals said they had all left Mt. Lemmon a week or 2 before)
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Plan B
Ice climber
SoCal
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Sep 12, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
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Great trip Dave, and Bob!
I want to go on a trip like that! :)
Wow!
Great pics!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 12, 2014 - 08:50pm PT
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HMOG D and B! Nice photos. I soooo wanted to see a Lucifer the first time I went to Tucson, and you went and got the best photo ever.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 12, 2014 - 10:59pm PT
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We all should plan a trip next year, the camping was pretty good too.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 12, 2014 - 11:14pm PT
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A few more AZ birds. Great trip.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Sep 13, 2014 - 09:56pm PT
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Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Inca Dove
Black-chinned and Rufous HB
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Sep 14, 2014 - 01:55am PT
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This thread was on page 4 bump.
Dee ee, where were you between Dec '08 and Dec '10?? Kinda crazy to think this thread has had a few long fallow periods since its inception.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Sep 14, 2014 - 07:56am PT
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We all should plan a trip next year, the camping was pretty good too.
springtime in the desert cannot be beat. April-May 2015?
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 14, 2014 - 08:38am PT
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Little Z, I'm in.
A few more from AZ.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 14, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
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Indeed. Where was I?
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Sep 14, 2014 - 08:53pm PT
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This guy's been hanging around Lake Forest Beach (just east of Tahoe City) for the better part of a week. Super tame when he's not chasing the Common Terns around:
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john hansen
climber
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Sep 14, 2014 - 09:05pm PT
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Excuse my ignorance but what bird is that Willoughby?
EDIT:
Rilly, I was thinking something like a Jeager but was afraid to call it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 14, 2014 - 09:49pm PT
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juvenile Pomarine Jaeger?
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Sep 14, 2014 - 09:53pm PT
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About two months early (or late) for a Pomarine. That's a juv. Parasitic. Should be migrating way out over the ocean, but we occasionally get 1-2 of this species and/or Long-taileds during migration. But they never hang around for a week like this! Pretty fun watching them dog the terns and gulls 'til they puke up their last meal.
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