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john hansen

climber

Feb 13, 2015 - 07:43pm PT

Always cool stuff here.

A couple weeks ago I started putting some birdseed on the railing to see what might come in. It is right out side my window so I could set up my tripod.

So far I have had four speices, all introduced, Japanese White eye, Spotted Dove, and some other smaller dove I am not sure of..

There were also this pair of Cardinals. They are the only ones I have got so far. The rest spook really easy.

EDIT:
De, Big Island Hawaii

dee ee

Mountain climber

Of THIS World (Planet Earth)

Feb 13, 2015 - 08:45pm PT

Wow, great Cardinal shots!

Where you at?

Let's see that mystery dove.

Tony

Trad climber

Pt. Richmond, CA

Feb 13, 2015 - 08:47pm PT

Speaking of Stone-curlews/Thick-knees as undertakers, we saw ~40 of these Bush Stone-curlews in a cemetery in Cairns.

little Z

Trad climber

un cafetal en Naranjo

Feb 14, 2015 - 02:27am PT

John,

have fun with your feeders. Try putting out some fruit too (orange halves, bananas and papaya).

was this your dove?

Darwin

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Feb 14, 2015 - 10:06am PT

Once again: I love this thread.

I know it makes me a little person, but I liked that little-Z got jazzed at seeing a Cinnamon Teal. There aren't too many that we see around town but he has to travel to Guanacaste! Of course the Cinnamon was almost buried in Blue Winged Teals. They aren't that common here.

I've been revisiting the idea of a hike-and-bike big year, just for me. Little-Z and Dehli Dog, you live closest to the equator. Do you have a guess how many birds you could count within walking distance from your house. I think little-Z told me that he saw 90+ species during one casual 4.5 mile hike around his house. For me, 40 would be a huge walking day, and I think the most I've bothered counting is around 30. I can't remember what Tony got on his first day of the STBY on SF Bay: 60+?.

Of course going on a bike tour would change everything, especially if I were to get over the Cascades. I can't imagine it would push me up to tropical numbers, though.

love the photos, y'all

P.S.: Tony, gave me Stone Curlews as an un-named photo from his Australia trip. I couldn't get close even with research. Days passed, and I had to email back one of those "I give up" messages.

MH2

Boulder climber

Andy Cairns

Feb 14, 2015 - 08:37pm PT

Found in the snows of yesteryear.

john hansen

climber

Feb 14, 2015 - 09:35pm PT

Z, I think that is the one. Zebra Dove.

Here is a spotted Dove.

climber

California dreamin' on the farside of the world..

Feb 15, 2015 - 10:09am PT

Holy Moly! Some amazing bird photos here!

My embarrassingly humble offering, taken with a phone...

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Feb 15, 2015 - 10:12am PT

Are you back in Cali, L????

How's about some stories from your last trip???

hee hee hee. . .

dee ee

Mountain climber

Of THIS World (Planet Earth)

Feb 15, 2015 - 11:56pm PT

tu wee

Vireo huttoni

Delhi Dog

climber

Good Question...

Feb 16, 2015 - 02:01am PT

Little-Z and Dehli Dog, you live closest to the equator. Do you have a guess how many birds you could count within walking distance from your house.

This link:
(http://avibase.bsceoc.org/checklist.jsplang=EN&p2=1&list=clements&synlang=®ion=INnwdl&version=text&lifelist=&highlight=0); shows 413 in the Delhi area and that should indicate a fairly large number for a city that is now purported to be the 2nd largest in the world (and one of the most polluted).

Believe it or not there is a lot of green space in and around the area I live.
But, to answer your question I'd go somewhere around 100... Jan1-Dec31.
Like other places Delhi has a significant number that passes through during the seasons. We're on major fall/winter/spring migratory paths for much of N. Asia and to Africa.
However, we're not that close to the equator:-)

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Feb 16, 2015 - 07:09pm PT

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Feb 17, 2015 - 02:58am PT

Some may remember the sound and fury of the Mono Lake crisis in the seventies and eighties.

Everyone thinks of the California gull and its breeding ground.

But what of Wilson's phalarope which spends it's idle hours there tuning up for the long flight south?

Some photos from National Geographic from 1981.

"Save Mono Lake."

dirt claud

Social climber

san diego,ca

Feb 17, 2015 - 09:16am PT

[Click to View YouTube Video]

john hansen

climber

Feb 17, 2015 - 07:34pm PT

Apapane at Volcanoes National Park.

Japanese White Eye (introduced)

Darwin

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Feb 18, 2015 - 09:34am PT

Dee ee ;
Thanks for the good Hutton's Vireo photos. One of the little things I would like out of life, is a day where I could get good long looks at three or four of the different Vireos along side each other and (apparently) Kinglets and small olive-colored warblers. The bills are a real key, eh? Likewise with Purple, House and Cassin's finches. It's not much to ask.

(edit)
And DD thanks for the information. I always envision S. India almost touching the equator, even though I know intellectually that it doesn't. You're way up north, top of that. I did not now how large N Dehli was, though. I imagine it being "nestled below the Himalaya" in what I envision as a migrant trap.

Closeness to equator (don't you just love Google maps!?):
Anchorage 61 deg N ( Cyndie)
Seattle 47 deg N
SF 37 deg N
LA 34 deg N
N.Delhi 28 deg N
Big Island 19 deg N
Mexico C. 19 deg N
S.J. C.R. 9 deg N

(I reserve right to make corrections on this post)
Any S. hemisphere posters on the birds thread?

referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinal_gradients_in_species_diversity