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dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 22, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
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!!!

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 22, 2014 - 09:58pm PT
Good score and shot of the Towhee!
Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM
Nov 23, 2014 - 02:27pm PT



Today's catch in Boulder.
cyndiebransford

climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Nov 23, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
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.
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 23, 2014 - 07:58pm PT
Ooh, nice Cyndie and Bob. I guess winter has hit for some areas of N. America?

No winter here though.
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Nov 24, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
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 :-)
Chewybacca

Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
Nov 24, 2014 - 10:16pm PT
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?
Mike Bolte

Trad climber
Planet Earth
Nov 25, 2014 - 07:33am PT
Great photos - the eagles are spectacular

Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM
Nov 25, 2014 - 07:35am PT
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 25, 2014 - 12:51pm PT

dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 28, 2014 - 10:52am PT
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.



Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM
Nov 28, 2014 - 12:19pm PT
Cool stuff Dee...this guy caught something for lunch today along the Rio Grande near Taos.
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 28, 2014 - 04:40pm PT
Bob, do you see eagles every day? Seems like it.
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 30, 2014 - 10:17am PT
^^^ 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
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 30, 2014 - 12:21pm PT
Carpenteria's Gray Hawk has returned for the third winter in a row!
Who doesn't enjoy wintering along the Oxnard-Santa Barbara coast

dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 30, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
Yay, Tony is a star! He always had it in him.


....and yay, the Gray Hawk is back!
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
Nov 30, 2014 - 02:47pm PT
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Nov 30, 2014 - 04:00pm PT
It's like this...


and then, it's like this...


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Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 30, 2014 - 04:35pm PT
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.
Mike Bolte

Trad climber
Planet Earth
Nov 30, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
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