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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 26, 2014 - 09:46am PT
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Lasti, beautiful 'whatever' hawk! You must have been two meters away with a 35mm!
This from CalBirds:
On possible invasions of R-t Pipits, Sharp-tld Sands, other Sibes--a
Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:28 am (PDT) . Posted by:
Greetings from the land of regular Red-throated Pipit migration in the
northern Bering Sea (Gambell), where I have been since mid-August and
will be for just one more week. This fall has been just "average" up
here for numbers of RTPIs, as it has been also farther south in the
Bering at St Paul. I mention this because since the early 1990s, there
has been a pretty strong correlation between the best years up here and
the several true "invasion" ; years of this species farther south in
California and Baja. Now, this certainly doesn't mean there won't be
Red-throats scattered around coastal CA, with a few possibly inland as
well, in something a little below or even a bit above the 'usual&# 39;
numbers. And, indeed there have already been birds at the Farallones and
San Mateo Co. and currently also four together in San Diego--all of
which are slightly early, but not overly so. Time will tell how it all
plays out. And despite the presence already of at least a couple
Sharp-tailed Sandpipers in n. CA (plus a very few in BC, WA, OR), it has
been only an average year (at best) here in the Bering for that species
as well, where it occurs in moderate numbers (juveniles). Such a close
correlation is not as clear in this species, so fall predictions for CA
will not be made by me! A good year for Bramblings, however. And
excellent for Asian strays in general.
I will add that there HAVE been several records of quality Asian
rarities already this fall at Middleton Island in the northern Gulf of
Alaska: Pacific (Fork-tailed) Swift, Yellow-browed Warbler,
Red-throated Pipit, Brambling, and a few shorebirds. Middleton is in the
Gulf, SSE of Anchorage, and so is WELL east or southeast of the Bering
Sea and should be a better bell-weather for what might occur in the
weeks ahead farther down the West Coast in BC, WA, OR, CA, and Baja.
Too soon to say whether that will translate in to any sort of "Siberian
Express" autumn and winter in CA, but it is nice to dream! The lower,
stronger branch of the jet stream has been running from Kamchatka, just
south of the Aleutians, and then dipping well to the south off the
Pacific Northwest.
Lastly, Black-legged Kittiwake breeding in much of Alaska is largely a
"boom or bust" scenario, and most recent years have been decidedly
busts. But, 2014 has been a huge BOOM at many, many sites across the
state. There are gobs of juveniles flying about. So we'll see if this
translates-- irrespective of oceanographic conditions-- to a sizable
flight to the south down the Pacific Coast this coming winter, or not...
--Paul Lehman (San Diego, usually)
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dee ee
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Sep 26, 2014 - 03:31pm PT
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I went to:
Day 1: Madera Cyn. (3 spots), Paton's House, Camp Crittendon, Patagonia St. Pk.
Day 2: Patagonia St. Pk., Carr Cyn.
Day 3: Ramsey Cyn.,San Pedro Riparian, Ash Cyn B&B (with Bob)
Day 4: Huachuca Cyn., Kino Sprs., Patagonia St. Pk. (with Bob)
Day 5: Patagonia St. Pk., (with Bob), Paton's House, Camp Crittendon, Mt. Lemmon (2 spots)
Day 6: I hit 3 different spots on Mt. Lemmon
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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Sep 26, 2014 - 05:48pm PT
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I like these stupid exotics.
fluffy
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 26, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
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What happened to Willoughby's post? Lasti's hawk isn't a Goshawk?
Sure looks like one but it didn't occur to me that they vacation in India.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Sep 26, 2014 - 05:57pm PT
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Changed my mind. They have goshawks all over the northern hemisphere, but since it's toes looked so teeny, and it was so tame, proportions kinda off, and those eyes were so bright yellow still ... I don't know what it is. Never been to that part of the world, and I honestly don't even know what the options are. Some sort of sparrowhawk seems like a fine guess to me, probably even just plain ol' Sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, which definitely occur in Pakistan.
EDIT - looks like N. Goshawks do winter high parts of Pakistan and India, but I'm thinking Sparrowhawk is almost certainly it.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 26, 2014 - 08:26pm PT
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A plump little Song Sparrow singing to me on my hike this morning.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Sep 27, 2014 - 09:30am PT
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 27, 2014 - 07:16pm PT
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Some from today...
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 28, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
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A few from today...
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 28, 2014 - 07:52pm PT
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I loved the tern shot StahlBro. As always: thanks to all of you for all the rest.
I had a weird wildlife experience this this last weekend. The bullet point summary was:
Decided to check out a new crag in Leavenworth.
* One closed road, several flag people stoppages on the way from Seattle and a side track to pick up shoes, got us up there 2hrs later than usual.
* Got lost on the way to the new crag.
* "screw it, we're at some crag, let's at least try a toprope". Set it up and start climbing, but:
* Wait there are all these giant brown wasps in ALL the cracks here, even dinky little incipient ones. A couple weeks ago I reacted rather strongly to yellow jacket stings, so, it is now 1:30P, we hadn't climbed a pitch yet, and we're retreating from this crag and don't know where we are.
But wait "churrrr*" and I see a cinnamon brown wren up on the cliff by a crack. I'm still not positive 'cause it didn't stick around for but a second and I never did hear its song but just the warning cry, but I think it was a Canyon Wren. OK: coloring made it Canyon and the "churrr*" suggested Rock, and I'm still not sure I would recognize a House Wren if it sat in front of me and said "I'm a 'House Wren'.
Nonetheless, that made the day for me. For bonus time, we actually went to some near-road crags. I top-roped some difficult for me climbs, and Mark lead a couple and it turned into a pretty good day.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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With all the spam this needs a bump...
Bird bump!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Bump for the birds, a few from today.
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john hansen
climber
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Great photo's and adventure's.
I was looking thru some old photo's and found two that were never identified enough that I felt I could count them.
Hoping the experts here can confirm the ID.
These birds were both seen at Cottontail spring in JTNP, late April of 2013.
I think this one is a Calliope Hummingbird. It was the smallest Humming bird I ever saw. The white mark behind the eye seems to be very unique to the Calliope.
What you think?
The next one is a vireo. Timid top rope suggested Bells,, a bit more rare,, but..
It could be a Warbling Vireo.. it has the white patch underneath the eye. A bit more common... Either one would be a lifer for me., what you think?
Flying into San Francisco tomorrow night, going on a 4 hour pelagic / whale tour out of Moss landing on Sunday. Hoping to get a few lifers.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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John, hmmm,
The hummer has "wingtips that extend beyond the tail while at rest." That is consistent with Calliope (and only the Calliope) but I'm not seeing the "thin white line over gape" which should be pretty obvious. There might be a hint of it there, I'm not sure.
With the Vireo a look at the wing bars would help. It might be a fairly pale Warbling Vireo but the ones I'm seeing down here have a bit more of a yellow wash on the flanks. Hard to say.
Hopefully one of the true experts will chime in.
Good luck on the pelagic. Got the Dramamine squared away?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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John, I have to agree that it looks a Calliope based on the wing length and
white spot behind the eye. The only thing I'm not seeing is enough spotting
on the throat but it is fall so maybe it's a juvenile male. That would
explain the lack of buffiness on the flanks and belly.
As for yer 'Bells' it is definitely not with that broad of a supercilium,
the bill looks to thick/long, the whole bird looks too small, and the head
doesn't have the roundy Bells/Huttons look. I concur with Warbling.
BTW, I'm not the expert Dee is waiting for. His name is Willoughby. ;-)
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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I keep stiking out on the Blackburnian Warbler.
Wednesday they called me saying they had it, I was 2 hours away in Hemet. I went straight there and couldn't find it. I was ready to give up and then found this Red-naped Sapsucker (for county year). I got re-psyched and stayed another 2 hours. I had a pretty dang good park list at that point.
I was just about to leave when another birder showed up. I stayed with him for another 25 minutes and left. He found it 30 minutes later.
Today the same thing happened. I was there for 2 hours combing the most likely areas. It was windy, hot and very un-birdy. I needed to go to the gym (rock climbing- Rockreation) and left. It was found less than an hour later.FFUU###!!
At least the climbing was fun...and the IPA's were good after.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Green Heron on the hunt this morning near Taos, NM.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
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WHEE HOO, I GOT IT!
Blackburnian Warbler
(sorry about the focus)
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