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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Apr 29, 2016 - 08:12pm PT
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The thread that keeps on giving...great stuff above. Love those desert birds.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Apr 29, 2016 - 08:43pm PT
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seeing BN's desert birds, I had to post up a few from Tucson last week.
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john hansen
climber
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Apr 29, 2016 - 09:03pm PT
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Flew in to San Francisco last night from Hawaii for the first time in just about a year.
I cant keep up with Dave and Bob, but I will be working at it the next few weeks. Every once in a while I get a good one. I love birding in California.
I don't mind taking long range, or slightly out of focus photos, I am only here a few weeks a year and like to be able to try to figure some birds out later when I get home, and for documentation. Also to help me keep track of what I saw.
Got 54 speicies today on my first day . most of the 240 pic's I took were not that good but, I got few good one's. Traveled from the San Francisco airport area over to Pacifica and down the coast to Watsonville and Moss Landing. Day 1 of 12.
Here are a few of the good and a few of the bad for ID.
From the red eye ring and dark iris I think this is a California Gull.
A few Brant at Moss Landing from 2 or 3 hundred yards.
Bewick's Wren at the University of Santa Cruz.
Golden Crowned Sparrow
This guy need's to learn how to stay out of nets...
Semi Palmated Plover,, I don't have a scope but I can some times get some shots with my 400 mm that let me figure it out later from way far away.
And an Eared Grebe also from long distance. My camera can see farther then me.
It is like having the Hubble telescope on your side.
And last what I believe are some Short Billed Dowitcher's ,,, they were in salt water.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 29, 2016 - 09:16pm PT
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What a wonderful flurry of new bird photos! Awesome!
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Apr 29, 2016 - 09:37pm PT
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Mike Bolte for the Nighthawk win.
Fork-tailed Flycatcher on perch
Fork-tailed Flycatcher on nest
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Apr 30, 2016 - 01:15am PT
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We’re in Glasgow for a few days on our way to cruising to a number of small Scottish Islands o the same small ship we took to Svalbard in the Arctic a couple of years ago. From our room we noticed a pair Lesser Black-backed Gulls nesting on a corner of a roof of the next building.
Along with the usual city sightseeing, we spent some time at a Hogganfield Loch, a nice park with a bird sanctuary on a small island and a food variety of birds on and around the water, although local told us it was crap now. Too much wildlife. There were a huge number of Mute Swans, including a lot of juveniles.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
A couple were already on nests.
There was a pretty good diversity, with at least 25 species seen. Although we missed Smews and Jack Snipe which reportedly winter there.
Nothing rare, but we saw over 25 species. There were more singing in the vegetation around the loch. They have breeding Sedge Warblers and Reed Buntings. Not bad for a city park.
Later a Common Kestrel showed up at the large necropolis next to the cathedral.
Now on to see some large seabird colonies, among other sights.
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john hansen
climber
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Apr 30, 2016 - 09:05pm PT
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Here are a few from my second day.
Blue Winged Teal.
Savannah Sparrow.
Acorn Wood Pecker. I have always found this bird difficult to get good pictures of.. sort of like Bob with the King Fisher..
This is the best one I have got so far.. and I have taken hundreds of shots of Acorn Woodpecker
And last, an extremely distant photo of what I believe is a snowy plover. And it is still not that good,,
Snowy Plover
I have been trying to get this bird for many years, every time I come over here I have checked out this place in Moss Landing where they are supposed to be, many, many times.
I think I finally got one.
Like I said a very distant photo but you can see the strong eye bar and lower throat band, and all white below.
Snowy Plover. I am counting it as a lifer..
I like photos like this. I took a picture of what I thought was a Loon ,
but saw later it was a Red Breasted Merganser.
The camera is stronger than the eye.
Just wondering,, I bought my Nikon D 80 many years ago.. 12 mega pixels was top of the line then.. the new ones must be great.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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nice!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Great photos all...Hey John you coming to the southwest?
A great day today with the wife along the Rio Grande near Pilar, NM. Heading to Mexico for some dental work and then over to Casas Grande, Chihuahua for a few days of birding.
Here are a few from today.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Great photos everyone. I like your photos from the new lens, Bob.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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A few more desert boids from last month...
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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The birds are returning to the Kenai Peninsula. Today I saw four FOS species.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, lovely stuff!!!! thank you all!!
will share the only bits, that i can get...
here you go:
here is my front-porch-robin...
or, the shed-robin... not sure, as:
i have TWO this year, oh my!
hope to get pics, later, of healthy surviving babes, :)
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Really great stuff above, Nee, love those eggs. :-) Steve, loving the new lens, just a little heavy for this old man. :-)
Rare bird here for northern NM. Snowy Egret on the hike this evening.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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out in the field the other day and I see a Double-toothed Kite in a tree way over by the river
These guys are known for their habit of following troops of monkeys. They then snatch critters that the monkeys scare up. All of a sudden I look up and there is the Double-toothed Kite perched right above me. No monkeys araund. Or...wait a minute, I'm a primate. Whatever, any port in a storm.
Of course they don't have teeth, but they do have a double-notched bill
EDIT: Reeotch - yes, Costa Rica
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Where are you litle z, costa rica?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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We need a caption contest for that shot!
All I got is "NOBODY MOVE OR THE GRINGO GETS IT!"
Hey, we all have a little Mel Brooks in us, como no?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Osprey on the Merced River near Merced Falls.
Merced Falls Road.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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A few from the border.
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