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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 29, 2014 - 06:13pm PT
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Dee ee
You can see the mallards do that in a local shopping center
parking lot here in Denver!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Oct 29, 2014 - 06:13pm PT
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Hah!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 29, 2014 - 06:38pm PT
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Love the Paint-billed Crake, and as Little Z said "good luck little dude" to the sora. We go bonkers over just regular Soras up here. (Like it's my most contested sighting at the Fill).
dee ee: I have a soft spot in my heard for Coots, especially lots of them.
Yeah about Chewybacca's photos. who.t.f is he? ; -)
This is the first X Y in the Fill this Fall. Should have been here Tony.
A week short and a dollar late.
You all are so good about selecting a single best shot, but I just can't do it, and I'm too nervous about the WS so I have to spend more time here.
And I only post the following cause it captured the grey so well
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Oct 29, 2014 - 07:03pm PT
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This guy's new around here.
Actually there are two. They seem to be paired-up.
I think they're eyeing my Gray Squirrels. I doubt they've had any luck. I don't think these hawks could lift a squirrel - the Gray Squirrels around here are pretty fat - and I haven't seen any squirrel parts laying around.
I'd never seen one here before until recently. I had to look it up to find out what it is. Red Shouldered Hawk. Big birds to be flying in the dense pine trees.
Owls are back.
Actually they never left. But they've paired-up this year.
Playing hard to get:
( sorry to interrupt, but I live here too )
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 29, 2014 - 11:59pm PT
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The 308th (pretty sure that's right) species for the Lake Tahoe basin showed up today: a stonking adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. No pics worth showing, but he was a beaut!
Crazy to think he may have traveled from Iceland for this visit. The way things have been going on this continent, especially back east, they'll probably be annual in another 10-15 years. Meanwhile, this one was pretty sweet!!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Oct 30, 2014 - 06:36am PT
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Wonderful photos/stuff above. Just a few from yesterday.
I think Tony Was right on this being a young Harris Hawk....pretty cool as the Bosque is pretty much out of their range to the north.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Oct 31, 2014 - 11:18am PT
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Bump...a few from today.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 31, 2014 - 02:02pm PT
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Saw an interesting thing today while walking in the Boboli Gardens in Firenze. I saw a European Kestrel harassing a Hooded Crow, quite the reverse of normal. The Kestrel was 7 o'clock high on the crow, who was clearly worried and heading full steam for points unknown.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 31, 2014 - 04:28pm PT
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Interesting to me, too! ^^^
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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What is this??
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Was out climbing in RRocks for the last week, so although a little late on the theme idea, here's another bug shot just for fun.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Cassin's Finch with his mouth full on the hike this AM near Taos, NM
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I can't wait for Dee's photos of the Olive-backed Pipit!!!!
I hope I get back from Eyetalia in time to nab it.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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5 ALARM RARE BIRD ALERT!!!
OK Reilly, you asked for it. Holy crap.
I didn't hear about the Olive-backed Pipit till it was too late to go on Sat. Jeff (who birds twice as much as I do) had this gem drop out of the sky right in front of him. He knew it wasn't anything he'd seen before and immediately sent photos to Doug Willick for ID.
Sure enough it was a OBPI, only seen in the lower 48 2 or 3 times before, WTF.
He alerted the birding community immediately and within an hour or so there were 100+ birders there. By the end of the day over 150 had viewed this very cooperative rarity.
I ditched my family obligations on Sun. AM and headed over to Yorba. When I got there, there were at least 100 birders there already. Many were just milling around in the area it had been seen in. Maybe 50 others were combing the rest of the park. I joined in and combed the perimeter as the central part was well covered. A handful of other good birds were turned up, I found the Mandarin Duck and others found a Cackling Goose. My friend Sandy Remley needed both for county list and was raking it in. She found a Great-horned Owl first.
I lucked out on the perimeter and got a Pine Siskin for county year. I kept looking back into the main area to determine the demeanor of the rest of the birders. After a while it seemed some were hurrying in the same general direction. I rushed back and ran into Bruce Airde (president of Sea and Sage Audubon). He yelled "the bird has been seen!"
I headed around the opposite side of the grove where the crowd was and within one minute there it was! WWHEEEHOOO!
It was fairly cooperative foraging on the ground in the grass. The crowd was fairly unruly but all got views and photos. We chased it all over the general area.
#308 Pine Siskin
#309 Olive-backed Pipit
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sorry no birds, but I saw a Coopers Hawk (which I tried to turn into a Goshawk) coursing these cliffs for pigeons. That's the Columbia River down there.
Even more non-bird related; steep columnar basalt at Vantage sure is more difficult for me to climb than slabby granite.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Deee, you suck big time! ;-)
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Damn Dee, you are on a roll.great stuff.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Love the pic of the birding nuts viewing the Pipit, very fun.
Another bug pic - parent feeding a nasty looking worm kinda thing to the kids...
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