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john hansen
climber
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Mar 12, 2015 - 09:42pm PT
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As always , amazing stuff.
A couple of Apapane.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Mar 13, 2015 - 05:32am PT
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spring is beginning to happen in Western North Carolina. The crocus and jonquils are blooming. The red-bellied woodpeckers are tap tap tapping on the top of the power poles and the male cardinals are in the top of the trees saying "pretty, pretty, pretty" (or rather purdy, purdy, purdy).
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 13, 2015 - 07:56am PT
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Great stuff above, really nice. A few from Monte Vista NWR in southern Colorado. The cranes are back along with a few other flying creatures.
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Mar 13, 2015 - 10:56am PT
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Great shot of the cranes, Bob!
And the owl. Very nice.
From December
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Mar 13, 2015 - 11:30am PT
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Spring is starting to spring! Some more bird pics from Cochise a couple of weeks ago...
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 13, 2015 - 11:48am PT
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Thanks, L...here is a another of the Norther Harrier at Monte Vista NWR.
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jonnyrig
climber
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Mar 13, 2015 - 01:45pm PT
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Coopers Hawk? There are two around. Maybe nesting, as they've been around about two weeks, and they seem to like our tree.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 13, 2015 - 04:44pm PT
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Hay BN!
I thought that was an albino cardinal for a minute!
hee hee hee. . .
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Mar 13, 2015 - 05:10pm PT
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was down in the stinkin' hot lowlands a few days ago checking out the waste water treatment ponds at a palm oil processing facility (for you non-birders out there, places like that are great spots to look for shorebirds) and ran across this pair of nesting Southern Lapwings
This was right around noon in an open gravel parking area. The heat was suffocating (the smell of fermenting plam kernals didn't help either). No need to incubate the eggs. The trick was to keep them from frying. In the photo above you can see how the one bird is squatting over the nest to provide shade.
while I quickly got a photo of the eggs the two birds crouched nearby keeping up a constant ear-splitting squawk. These lapwings have a very sharp, red bone spur at the bend of their wings that they can use as a defensive weapon.
so think of little fighter jets ready to blast off and nail you if you let your guard down. As soon as I turned my back to get out of there they were all over me. I wound up having to back away to keep the two birds in front of me so as to fend them off. No surprise this species is rapidly spreading through Central America headed north. They are formidable little critters and love trashy habitat.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 13, 2015 - 10:24pm PT
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^^^ Lapwings kind of weird me out, and one of Tony's photos of one from Australia(?) inspired me to post it the Cthulhu thread.
I walked instead of cycled into work today. I was was able to go slightly different way, and came across a Pileated Woodpecker right in front of me. What a big hunk of beautiful bird. I didn't have my camera, but this is from a year and a month ago from right in my neighborhood, so I'm posting.
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john hansen
climber
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Mar 13, 2015 - 10:30pm PT
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Pileated are the coolest of the woodpeckers.
Great shot.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Mar 14, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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Wonderful pileated shot...love them.
Spring continues to come to Appalachia:
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Mar 14, 2015 - 06:27pm PT
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Oh, that male House Finch succeeded....I'm impressed!
Great photos Gypsy!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Mar 14, 2015 - 07:28pm PT
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lots of great photos. Bob - the owl is really nice as is the Harrier looking at the camera. Gypsy, the Brown Thrasher is fabulous. Brassnuts, excellent images as always.
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Mar 16, 2015 - 04:25pm PT
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This is really wild to watch but also pretty graphic. Would not suggest climbing at these cliffs. These Eagles have some serious power, and a brutal way of getting these mountain goats.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Mar 16, 2015 - 06:15pm PT
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Aaaahh, bird's eggs, deeply if inexplicably gratifying. Thanks.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Mar 17, 2015 - 10:02am PT
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Brunch...
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Mar 17, 2015 - 12:11pm PT
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8000 posts. What a great thread!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 19, 2015 - 11:14am PT
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