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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 22, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
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We had our long awaited trip to Seal Beach NWR today. Good birds but nothing new for me this year. Afterwards we went by Bolsa Chica to salvage the day (for me) and got a Black Scoter (lifer) and a Common Goldeneye (for cty. yr.).
BLSC
Distant COGO
Ferruginous Hawk
Green-tailed Towhee (first ever at Seal Beach NWR)
BRPE
Here comes the Peregrine Falcon!!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 22, 2014 - 09:58pm PT
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Good score and shot of the Towhee!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 23, 2014 - 02:27pm PT
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Today's catch in Boulder.
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Nov 23, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
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Look who was at the bird feeder this morning. At one point there were 6 male and 4 female Pine Grosbeaks feeding. As soon as the larger birds left the chickadees and nuthatches were on the food too. Must have been our light dusting of snow last night that made them hungry.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 23, 2014 - 07:58pm PT
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Ooh, nice Cyndie and Bob. I guess winter has hit for some areas of N. America?
No winter here though.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Nov 24, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
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Our recent dose of winter has brought out lots of hungry birds as well. We are also enjoying an irruption of Red-breasted Nuthatches this year - although not gifted in the song department they have lots of personality :-)
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Nov 24, 2014 - 10:16pm PT
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A rare Zombie Pooping Eagle
It was pretty cool watching as these eagles locked talons and spiraled towards the earth.
Bummer about your camera Little Z. Time for an upgrade?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nov 25, 2014 - 07:33am PT
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Great photos - the eagles are spectacular
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 25, 2014 - 07:35am PT
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 25, 2014 - 12:51pm PT
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 28, 2014 - 10:52am PT
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I've had a great birding week! After getting Swamp Sparrow, Black Scoter and Common Goldeneye I got a Townsend's Solitaire and today a Brown Creeper (#315)(2 lifers and 5 cty. yr. birds).
I also had a Red-breasted Sapsucker and a Red-naped Sapsucker chasing each other around today, pretty cool.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 28, 2014 - 12:19pm PT
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Cool stuff Dee...this guy caught something for lunch today along the Rio Grande near Taos.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 28, 2014 - 04:40pm PT
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Bob, do you see eagles every day? Seems like it.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2014 - 10:17am PT
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^^^ I probably see Bald Eagles twice a week on the way into work in Seattle. There is a nest nearby.
But more importantly Tony is a movie star! He appears twice in Pelican Dreams and even has a speaking part. He's a natural! I'm pretty excited about this, because I didn't know he was in it (nor did Tony) before I saw him onscreen and blurted out in the theater "That's Tony!". This is a movie about Brown Pelicans in general and the rehabilitation of one that was rescued from the Golden Gate Bridge. It's by Judy Irving, the same woman who did Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. It's gotten favorable reviews from the non-birding mainstream press (*1), based no doubt on the strength of Tony's acting. I didn't think it overly romanticized nature and bird rehab, but it did have a heart wrenching scene from the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Maybe Tony will chime in after he sees it.
http://seattletimes.com/html/movies/2025109238_pelicandreamsxml.html
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 30, 2014 - 12:21pm PT
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Carpenteria's Gray Hawk has returned for the third winter in a row!
Who doesn't enjoy wintering along the Oxnard-Santa Barbara coast
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 30, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
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Yay, Tony is a star! He always had it in him.
....and yay, the Gray Hawk is back!
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Nov 30, 2014 - 02:47pm PT
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 30, 2014 - 04:00pm PT
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It's like this...
and then, it's like this...
and then...
and then
and then
and then
and then
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2014 - 04:35pm PT
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The photos of the Brown Pelicans in breeding plumage in the movie were beautiful. I had never seen that before. I do want to add a caveat about Pelican Dreams: I would have a hard time calling it a documentary but more a single persons image of Pelicans. We've seen that kind of personal take on wild life go completely wacko before, and I still think this was pretty restrained and the director was aware of the liberties she took in that that regard, when she took them. And I'm not even going to touch the politics of wild life rehabilitation and triage in response to disasters with a 10' pole. The movie had extensive quotes from Monte -Last-name?-, and from second hand stories, he has very realistic approach to rehab.
Here's a link of a breeding plumage CBP from the net, i.e. not mine
Credit: www.birdsasart-blog.com533 × 800Search by image
California Brown Pelican, stunning breeding plumage. Canon 600mm f/4L IS lens with the 1.4XII TC and the EOS-1Ds Mark II. ISO 250.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nov 30, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
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