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Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 6, 2017 - 06:13pm PT




Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 8, 2017 - 11:00am PT
I'll stop after this with the Bohemian Waxwings.




Cyndie or LittleZ (studied them in Colorado right?). What do you make of the one below with a very grey chest/belly but it has not hint of rufous undertail? I think it's a Cedar.


And to get me to move on past the B. Waxwings
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 8, 2017 - 01:20pm PT
I win the intardnet today, if I do say so myself! :-)




Yup, pretty sure it's a Yellow-throated!


(The last two aren't great as they were shot at high ISO and fairly
heavily cropped)
Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM
Jan 8, 2017 - 02:19pm PT
Great photos above all. Really beautiful. Reilly, liking that lens. :-)





perswig

climber
Jan 8, 2017 - 03:47pm PT
So I'm on the return leg of a trail run last night, nearing dusk and some light snowfall. This part of the loop ends in a small woods and I start hearing crows.
A lot of crows.
This is not an unusual place for them to hang out, and I figure it's the weather or the time of day? But coming into the woods I guesstimate there are thirty to forty of them, minimum, and man, are they pissed. Noise like Hitchcock and they don't seem to notice my entry to their perimeter for a bit.
When they do, they take off as a group, reluctantly, shaking the trees and raising even more of a ruckus, if that's possible. I'm kind of surprised they leave at all, but they do, it gets quiet again, like it should, when it's dark and snowing.
And just then a ginormous snowy lights from his subcanopy trap, floats in that heavy soundless way they do right over my head (creating a sensation reminiscent of the precordial thump from the old CPR days) and heads out of the trees, back-azimuth to the crows' departure, in search of quieter hunting and more pleasant neighbors.

I had heard from old hunters that an owl decoy would often create some rage and incautious behavior when their natural intelligence kept them out of range (not a meal I'd be interested in), but this fairly uncommon visitor really attracted a vigilante mob.

Coolest run this year.
Dale
10b4me

Mountain climber
Retired
Jan 8, 2017 - 04:01pm PT
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jan 8, 2017 - 06:39pm PT

Looks like a 'run-over coyote fish' to me, Little Z!!!!
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Jan 9, 2017 - 09:05am PT
Bob - glad you made it to Carara. We had a really wet rainy season this year, but I was surprised to hear the Ox Bow Lake trail was still flooded at such a late date. Sorry about that. Looks like you saw some good stuff anyway. Yeah, I hear you about how expensive everything is here. Nicaragua is dirt cheap and has a lot to offer. Once Colombia gets its act together it's going to blow Costa Rica out of the water for tourism.

Reilly, love that Yellow-throated Warbler. Beautiful bird and a tough one to get a shot of. They winter in pine plantations here in town and I've wasted many a happy hour trying to get good photos.

Same goes for BN's warbler medley above - what a treat, and those are amazingly hard shots to get. The Tennessee Warbler at the red bottle-brush flowers (it's an Australian plant, Callistemon (?), I think) reminds me of all the cool birds we saw visiting those flowers in OZ, like this Musk Lorikeet.

Darwin - wish I was there to see the Bohemian's. Your're correct, that last photo was a Cedar Waxwing (white undertail coverts).

Steve, you're right, the Sea-Eagle was on a run-over menu item, but it was a Wallaby. There are no vultures in Australia, so road kill clean up duty falls mostly to the regular birds of prey, but especially the two big eagles. That Sea-Eagle is a massive beast, seen here with a Whistling Kite for comparison (the kite is about the size of a N.Harrier)

but the Wedge-tailed Eagle ain't no slackker either when it comes to intimidating size
Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM
Jan 9, 2017 - 11:41am PT
Little Z, just surprised at the cost of everything in the last few years, don't know how the locals make it. That Wedge-tail Eagle is a beautiful bird. Also there where maybe three or four folks doing a bird count on the trail, they made it as far as me. :-)


A few from this morning.



Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 9, 2017 - 12:51pm PT
Z, that Wedge-tailed is a beast! Looks much like a Steller's with regard
to the massive bill and claws.

So, poll time: is this Spotted looking or listening? I do know he/she didn't like cameras.



Dude! Where's yer helmet?

Not real good shot at ISO 4000.
Bob D'A

Trad climber
Taos, NM
Jan 12, 2017 - 06:00pm PT
Bump for the birds.






Tony

Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
Jan 12, 2017 - 07:25pm PT
I haven't carried my camera much while birding of late. In November, we visited friends in Grand Junction and got a lifer. I've certainly seen them before before the split, but Woodhouse's Scrub-jay is prevalent there. It is definitely distinguishable and even had a least one different call.Photos are heavily cropped since I wasn't carrying my telephoto lens.

This one was at Thompson's Springs.The main attraction here at Thompson Springs were the fabulous ancient rock art (with the requisite disgusting defacement).
I had to document the Bushtit plumbeous subspecies in case it is split, too.

There were also three Dark-eyed Junco subspecies seen.

I don't remember this video of surfing Black Swans being posted on this thread. Maybe on a surfing thread?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tony

Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
Jan 12, 2017 - 07:39pm PT
Oh, regarding Reilly's post a couple of pages back, the story of the Laysan Albatross, Wisdom, laying yet another egg at age 66 was definitely more uplifting than most of the news coming out these days.
Wisdom lays egg at age 66. The connection with Chandler Robbins who initially banded her in 1956 and then again in 2002, when he was in his 80s adds to the story.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 12, 2017 - 08:24pm PT
SURFING SWANS!!!!! Too rad! Did you see 'em smiling?
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Jan 13, 2017 - 06:46am PT
never saw any surfin' Black Swans, but whatever they were doing, they were doing it gracefully




hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jan 13, 2017 - 11:00am PT
well he certainly made me work for it.i've got a picture of him striking a hasty pose next to every piece of debris in the yard but the v-rod
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Jan 14, 2017 - 11:27am PT
A couple of weeks ago I watched this American Dipper goof around in the icy waters, they are such cool birds :-)
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 14, 2017 - 04:55pm PT
Heart stopping photos above, and yes Tony, I'm in dire need of uplifting news.

I love water and waves made still. Add a bird and it's even better. Here's an old one of mine. But I can't remember if I posted it in this or the surfing thread. Adds new meaning to the term duck-dive, but in this case it's Brandt-dive.


Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 14, 2017 - 05:16pm PT
VERY COOL, Darwin!

BN, that last might be the best shot of John Muir's favorite boid I've seen.
Was it cropped at all?
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jan 14, 2017 - 07:24pm PT

What, no bugs, BN????

hee hee hee. . .
Cool Dipper.
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