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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 27, 2015 - 08:34am PT
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Thanks and great photos Mike.
Rufous Hummingbird at the feeder today.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 27, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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Holy sh#t, got a half decent shot of this Sora and a not so good shot of this Virginia Rail tonight at Fred Baca Park, Taos, NM.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 27, 2015 - 08:11pm PT
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Damn! I've never been mooned by a Sora before!
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Jul 28, 2015 - 06:17am PT
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 28, 2015 - 09:50am PT
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When back today and tried to get a better shot of the Virginia Rail...success!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 28, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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New species discovery...the shockingbird.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 28, 2015 - 07:52pm PT
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Right, and so I'm going all Dirt Claud on you!
Fair warning, break out the hankies all you softies!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Fookin' Irish - "There's soo mooch loove there."
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jul 28, 2015 - 08:46pm PT
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I really miss Willoughby too. And Quartzite who started this terrific thread. You are greatly missed.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Jul 28, 2015 - 08:51pm PT
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Jul 28, 2015 - 08:53pm PT
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I just got back from a week visiting old friends outisde of Fairbanks. It wasn't particularly a birding trip and it's not the best time of year for birding up there, but still: It was a blast. The non-photographed birding highlight was a Three-toed Woodpecker that I spotted but my friend John actually pointed out that it was wrong for a Hairy. That was on way cool mountain bike ride on the ridge between Goldstream and O'Connor Creek valleys. I think most of the bird photos get better with clicking to expand.
Hairy, not the 3-Toed.
Young ??? Thrush (266)
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white fireweed. none of the locals had seen that before.(297)
Osprey nest in upper Goldstream Valley. Tony we think there were two young. I'm a little worried about the lateness if the season in central Alaska if they haven't fledged yet.(302)
Always a treat!(307)
The crew, but no John.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Yesterday we went on a pelagic trip to the Farallons from Half Moon Bay with unusually calm, warm conditions. As we departed the harbor there were many hundreds of Elegant Terns including many juveniles. In contrast, there are almost no juvenile Heermann’s Gulls, although ~95% of both species usually nest on Isla Rasa. Apparently, the Elegant Terns mostly bred at Southern California locations with better feeding.
There were many Common Murre chicks accompanied by their dads. This one still had down, but had already swum about 30 miles from where it nested at the Farallons!
First order of business was to get to a floating dead Humpback Whale that had been reported. It must have been pretty fresh, since there was no feeding frenzy yet, even though we were seeing a Blue Sharks and a possible Mako Shark. Here’s the whale. It was obviously a male. There were a few bite marks, but on the way back in it was nowhere to be seen, so it must have gotten “discovered” by sharks.
We saw many Mola mola (Ocean Sunfish), possibly due to the very warm water.
After the usual slow period on the way out, we got to the islands teeming with nesting birds. We saw way more Tufted Puffins than on previous trips. Maybe over 50.
There were a lot of Northern Fur Seals who seemed pretty curious about our boat.
The big bonanza was seeing the Northern Gannet that has been present since 2012 along with both a Brown Booby and a Blue-footed Booby. They were sometimes in the same frame! Not likely to see that again, but who knows with the warm waters. They were interacting quite bit and seemed to have staked out a Sulidae area of the cliff.
After circling the islands, we headed out to deeper water, but the lack of wind made the Procellariiformes reluctant to fly. We saw one Pomarine Jaeger, some Sooty and Pink-footed Shearwaters and a few Black-footed Albatrosses, Northern Fulmars and (live) Humback Whales, but no Storm-petrels.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Great stuff, Tony!
Glad the whale went under and didn't end up on a beach!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Nice Tony, Darwin, 10b, Q, and Bob of course!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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I just got back from working at Intel in Hillsboro Oregon for 2 weeks. I had minimal play time but did get out birding at 2 spots one day. I did a little research ahead of the trip and determined that the most likely lifer would be a Chestnut-backed Chickadee. I was fortunate to bird in the morning (at Fernhill Wetlands, Forest Grove, a great location) with 2 expert young women and they pointed me to an area for the Chickadee where I went later (Portland Audubon). The birds were easy to find but super hard to photograph, always on the move.
Also Black-capped Chickadees there.
BAEA at Fernhill Wetlands
One of the best things about the area, boysenberries everywhere, very tasty!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Great photos above everyone. I'm on a rail quest. :-)
Virginia Rail in Taos this morning.
Redtail Hawk taking flight.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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More birds from this morning hike. ;-)
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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I saw these birds at a campground near Redding, California.
I need help identifying the last two photos. Thank you.
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