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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 17, 2016 - 09:33am PT
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Red Tail Hawk and Common Blackhawk.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 17, 2016 - 12:28pm PT
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Bob, nice shooting. Immature Black-bellied Plover coming into breeding plumage.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 17, 2016 - 02:04pm PT
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Thanks Reilly.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 17, 2016 - 02:12pm PT
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O WOW Sweet Shots,
On a stroll to a small boulder to top rope with my son,
we came to a small pond where we go frogging and such.
There in the dirt by the edge of the water was a dead Owl.
I will post some morbid snaps soon . . .they came out so sad. . .
these are taken by my kids
always lurking
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 17, 2016 - 11:41pm PT
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A couple more.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 18, 2016 - 09:24am PT
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Bewick Wren and Belted Kingfisher, getting close of getting a really good shot of a kingfisher.
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Mar 18, 2016 - 10:05am PT
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Great shots, all!
Does anyone have a nice shot of a sharp-shinned hawk? I've had one occasionally hanging out on my birdfeeder -- cool to watch him fly loops around the shrubbery trying to catch chickadees. Great looking bird!
Thanks in advance!
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Mar 19, 2016 - 07:15pm PT
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sorry plund, no sharpy shots, maybe BN?
here's a not-so-sharpy Baird's Trogon shot
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Mar 20, 2016 - 09:25am PT
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A couple of Sharpy shots...
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Mar 20, 2016 - 09:43am PT
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Oh yeah, Happy first day of Spring!!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 20, 2016 - 10:06am PT
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Great boidies, BN!!!
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Mar 20, 2016 - 03:21pm PT
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 21, 2016 - 02:34pm PT
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Great photos above, love the Trogon Little Z.
Another trip south.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 22, 2016 - 08:10am PT
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Black Phoebe, Page Springs, AZ
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amyjo
Trad climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 02:06pm PT
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Berkeley
Last Night Shortly Before Dusk
When I looked towards the Marina
there was a bright green blue opening
under the rain clouds
so i headed west through the squall.
Soon it stopped and all the people and dogs were gone.
Started the run with many coots, gulls, crows overhead, raven
a scattering of scaup with a few bufflehead, several dozen far away grebes
No owls of either variety (neither the burrowing nor the barn)
willet
turning the bend - 2 white-winged scoter
Coots, again, 2 kinds of cormorant
in the field
13 house finch, white crowns, one golden crown
crows under the monterey cypress
didnt hear the killdeer nor see any kites
pretty much the same on the second lap
but
as i finished
1 freshly washed kingfisher on the phone wires
headed back south called by the sounds of
oyster catchers
saw 2 - but could easily been more from the sound
1 great egret
4 snowy
clump of 6 willet
6 MARbLED GODWIT
1 unidentified sandpiper, maybe spotted
and in the final light
17 plunging forster tern
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 25, 2016 - 07:13pm PT
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A little bump for the birds.
Common Blackhawk and Great Blue Heron today at Page Springs, AZ. My job is up in the next few days and then back to Taos.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 25, 2016 - 10:35pm PT
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This is the noisy. .
? Coopers?
It screeches around no stealth at all
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has taken
a parrot, off of the deck
so the above version is what a normal person sees , she says, I see the world more darkly lit and oh so ever brighterthat said is it an eye of the beholder thing ?or as I fear, she fears, it points out that there is something wrong with how I see things
little z, the scene was hard to look past it was a beautiful bird and a sad group of events lead to its death. . . .just, very sad. . . .
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Mar 26, 2016 - 09:14am PT
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Gnome, you're ever attentive to what's going on around you in the natural world! I think most of us climbers are. I feel sorry for those who have learned to shut it out.
your bird is an adult Red-shouldered Hawk
Bob, I never get tired of seeing that Black Hawk. We're going to miss him/her when you head back to Taos.
Amyjo, nice list without the binos, thanks for taking us along on your run.
Thanks to all, love the variety of posts.
here's one of my back yard raptors, a Short-tailed Hawk
and another raptor that is passing north in migration now, Merlin
it's also a busy time for local birds as many are already nesting, like this Black-faced Solitaire. Looks like good times as it has 3 eggs, 2 is more the normal number of eggs.
here's a photo of the nest owner from the internet (www.surfbirds.com, I have no photos of my own). It's in the same genus as the N.Am. Townsend's Solitaire, a close relative of robins and thrushes, and like many of them has a beautiful song.
EDIT: Reilly, nest was at eye-level on the side of a tree, though they will also nest on the ground if it's on the edge of a steep embankment. As I mentioned somewhere before, nest predation (or I should say failure, as it's not always predators that cause nests to fail) is common among tropical birds, about 1 in 6 nest attempts is successful (able to fledge young). Eggs represent a large investment of energy and resources. That's why most tropical birds only lay 2 eggs per nesting attempt, the odds are they are going to lose them and so they need to have something in reserve for another go.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 26, 2016 - 09:46am PT
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You've been killing it lately, Bob! OK, bad turn of phrase on this thread. :-)
You, too, Z! That Solitaire is a ground nester? That's a risky strategy down there yo creo.
On my hike yesterday I was wheezing along and heard a raptor screech just behind me and
immediately saw its shadow on the trail in front of me. Surely an omen, methinks. I whirled
to see a Coop whip over my head closely followed by her mate who, like any good wingman,
was flying a little higher and to the side. I then watched as they ascended the steep side of
the canyon making one attack but only managing to scare the bejeesus out of some LBG.
What was interesting about this was the rapidity of their flight especially in view of how steeply
they were climbing. They did virtually no thermaling, maybe because conditions were poor,
but they had a definite method about them that I've not been privy to witnessing before.
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