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Delhi Dog
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Good Question...
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Dec 15, 2014 - 07:55am PT
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These two were from last week in Bhitarkanika NP
Orissa, India
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 15, 2014 - 01:03pm PT
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DD, those are very cool!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 15, 2014 - 01:10pm PT
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YIKERS! FREAKS!
TFPU!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 15, 2014 - 03:28pm PT
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Delih Dog; thank you! Can I ask, where were you in October?
Dee ee; the Reddish Egret photo was as good as it gets.
and the rest of you on the previous page totally ROCK!
Anyone need more photos of Cedar Waxwings and Hooded Mergansers? sigh.
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Bob D'A
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Taos, NM
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Dec 15, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
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Delhi Dog...great photos, thanks.
A few "western birds" today on the hike.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Dec 15, 2014 - 05:03pm PT
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Cool photos DD, thanks for sharing. The Hooded Redstart has very similar features to the White-rumped Shama that was somewhat common on Kauai, but it makes sense since the Shama came over from Asia... Cool.
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Delhi Dog
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Good Question...
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Dec 15, 2014 - 05:32pm PT
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Thanks.
I've been too busy to post but spent some time this weekend trying to get caught up with some of my bird photos.
In October I was in Corbett NP.
http://www.jimcorbettnational-park.com/
Lots of woodpeckers and kingfishers.
The park was closed but we just did a bunch of walking along one of the rivers and through the forest. Cool place.
Just this past Thanksgiving we went to Orissa to a couple NP's.
Here are a few more.
Not a great photo but you get the idea.
Brass- I've always been fascinated with those Hawaiian birds and the changes they've gone through over time.
We have a variety of redstarts here. I'll try to post a few more later.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 15, 2014 - 05:46pm PT
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That Gray-headed Woodpecker is very cool.
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Delhi Dog
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Good Question...
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Dec 15, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
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Here is one more
Edit: From below...Great eye/catch Deeeeee! Yes they are different...woodpeckers! I mislabeled the first one and have since edited that-thanks!
cheers
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 15, 2014 - 06:09pm PT
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Are those 2 the same sex? They are quite different.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 15, 2014 - 06:23pm PT
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We had our Peter's Cyn and vicinity Christmas Bird Count yesterday. I am on the "vicinity" duty. We birded pre-dawn to post-dusk.
We had a good day though. We re-found my Red-breasted Nuthatch, got one White-breasted Nuthatch, got 2 new Varied Thrushes,5 Western Tanagers (tough this time of year), 8 Mtn. Chickadees, a Red-naped and a Red-breasted Sapsucker, a Summer Tanager and made a last ditch effort for a Roadrunner (successful). For all groups around 85 species (low).
My partners were Roy Poucher, 22 yrs. birding and a vet of both Cali big year (around 500) and ABA (north America ) big year (he got around 680) and Neil Gilbert. Neil is a young (22) birding genius. He knows all songs and calls and can hear everything. But, he is a master of "pishing." He doesn't do a pishing sound but runs through about 6-8 different noise patterns the last one being an Eastern Screech Owl. At one point he called in a tornado of birds. There were 60 or so of 10 different species swirling around us. It was insane!
I didn't get too many photos but...
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Dec 15, 2014 - 06:53pm PT
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hat's off to D Dog! some beautiful shots.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Dec 15, 2014 - 07:05pm PT
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Thanks Mike!
TT I'm telling you, you need to come here if for nothing else than the birding.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Dec 15, 2014 - 07:16pm PT
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TT- Just in the last couple weeks...
Grey Headed Woodpecker
Fulvous Breasted Woodpecker
Grey Capped Pygmy Woodpecker
Grey Slatty Woodpecker
Streaked Throated Woodpecker
Rufous Woodpecker
Greater Flameback
Lesser Flameback
Greater Yellow Naped
(not to mention the barbets)
Pied Kingfisher
Crested Kingfisher
White Throated Kingfisher
Stork Bill Kingfisher
Collard Kingfisher
Brown Wing Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
Black Capped Kingfisher
(still haven't seen a Ruby here yet-but I did see one in Bangladesh:-)
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 16, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 16, 2014 - 07:54pm PT
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WHEEEE HOOOO!!!
#319 FRANKLIN'S GULL, Woodbridge Lake, Irvine. First found during CBC on Sunday.
I went yesterday morning, 9-11am and in the afternoon 3pm-4:15pm. It was seen for the second time at 1:15. In between I went to Lido Isle to look for the Red-billed Firefinch, presumably an escaped pet, no go.
Today I went at 8am till 9 am and again at 10:30 and stayed till around 2:45. First saw it at around 2:00 gaining altitude and moving away from the lake. I called to my friends across the lake and they got on it. It vanished and returned 20 minutes later to vanish again. Whew!
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Delhi Dog
climber
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Dec 17, 2014 - 03:24am PT
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Congratulations! Wow-319...still some days to go:-)
I was out with a bunch of Kindergarteners this morning and we saw a Grey Indian Hornbill and a white-throated Kingfisher (very common). The kids loved it and we ended up playing "bird tag" with me trying to tag as many as I could while they "flew" around me.
Great fun!
Here are a few more:
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Dec 17, 2014 - 01:40pm PT
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I love the pictures, mood, and knowledge, here.
Thanks for the recent help identifying this uncooperative subject.
A woman I know came along as I had the camera out and asked me what the bird was. I hadn't got a good enough look and said I did not know. She told me that the restless bundle of feathers in the blackberry reminded her of a bird from her childhood in Europe, whose german name translates as 'King of the Hedges.' After she had left, the rascal flashed a bit of red and I realized I did know. When I met the woman again later, she was tickled to learn that she had seen a kinglet.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Dec 17, 2014 - 02:20pm PT
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nice shots of a ruby-crowned kinglet. It is rare to see their ruby crown. A similar bird is a Hutton's Vireo. Hutton's have a heavier beak and look a bit head heavy
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 17, 2014 - 02:21pm PT
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^^^
Funny, I also saw a RC Kinglet on this morning's commute. That's not too unusual around here, but I always love getting good looks at them. This one little thicket had the Kinglet, an Orange Crowned Warbler (uncommon in winter here), a Bewick's Wren, Goldfinch and a House Finch singing its little heart out. Then I turn me head and see the big rafts of Wigeons, Coots, Gadwall, Buffleheads and sparser Scaups and Ring-necked Ducks. A Bald Eagle cruised over at that point and eyed but didn't prey on the Coots. The Trumpeters weren't there today, but they've been around. That was all at one spot. A little later on I saw a raft of 19 Common Mergansers. They are big, so that's a lot of fowl.
You who are good by-ear birdirs (LittleZ ...): Do you have a difficult time distinguishing House and Cassin's Finches?
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