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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 26, 2017 - 07:38pm PT
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Dark rainy day at the Fill today, but it was great to get out:
I swear, our easiest bird, including crows, in the whole city:
Hey, it's not an easy life.
Going for a rabbit:
Then none of these quite got it, but
(1) the weird one
(2) maybe technically better?
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Mar 30, 2017 - 12:29pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 31, 2017 - 02:34pm PT
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Didn't see one Costa's at Anza! :-(
Dontchya wish you could hop like this? White-crowned Hopper...
Showing the bling!
Bringin' home the bacon!
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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boy, this has to be the slowest "Birds" page to turn over
I'll help speed it along
Scaled Pigeon, looks more like a puffer fish (he inflates to sing)
immature Black Hawk-Eagle
many migrants pushing through Costa Rica now on their way back north.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak making a berry mess
I even got in some pelagic time recently.
Pomarine Jaeger
Red-breasted Meadowlark, new name change, it used to be RB Blackbird
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Those are beautiful birds Little Z. Thanks for sharing them! I've not been here for a while and am sad that I didn't comment about Slabbo's bird. Too late now as Slabbo has passed. :(
Hoping for more birds soon. We've got a few trips lined up (and Brass is out right now in NM and AZ so hopefully he brings some good ones home).
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Scruffy Costa's at Tamarisk Grove last weekend.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Female (or immature) Pin-tailed Whydah
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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We now have a nest cam installed on an Osprey nest near us.
http://sfbayospreys.org/
It is on a historic crane that is part of the Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park. I had fun helping with the installation. There are two cameras that also have infrared capability allowing the nest to observed at night. Now I can get Osprey closeup photos from the comfort of home.
Close view of the legs and feet showing the specialized structure to hold on to slippery fish.
A night shot.
With a fish (Jacksmelt?)
The obligatory copulation photo.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Geez, does anybody get any privacy any more? ;-)
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Not at this nest. They have been going about all of their "business" in front of in-person viewers since 2010. Not so close-up, though
Here's one more with the male nodding off.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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The first egg was laid tonight about 8 or so.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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dang, that lense is really hauling 'em in eh reilly?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yes, hoobs, bigger is definitely better. The more I shoot the less I need to go to the gym!
This just in:
Anders Moller of University of Paris-Sud and Johannes Erritzoe report in the Royal Society
Open Science that there is a correlation between brain size (when controlled for body size)
and road kills in birds! They postulate that the average weight of bird brains may rise over
the coming decades although too late for yer reporter.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Thanks Tony. I love the last egg photo, and I'm pointing the local Osprey crowd towards you!
Spring is springing here in the PNW, but still no Osprey on the local platform.
Little brown fast moving birds that live in dark forests, so not quite Osprey. Not Bewick's, either.
So, I don't want to admit how long it took me identify the song of a RWBB today. When I hear the "rusty gate ending", I get them immediately. But today a few isolated ones were just doing two almost identical, but not quite, notes, but they stopped before the rusty gate sound. Maybe like a backup beeper. Anyway I did finally figure out who was 'singing'. I don't know about the rest of you, but every spring I have to re-learn songs that I haven't heard in almost a year.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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I can relate. Every spring I hear songs that I know I should know, and I know I'll be embarrassed that I forgot! "What is that? so familiar... I should know it....oh, a Blue Jay." Doh.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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nice stuff Darwin, you're going to give Brassnuts a run for his money with the denizens of the dark forest interior
Roadside Hawk - I was on the roadside, it was in the pasture
Collared Trogon, the little quetzal
Pomarine Jaeger, again. It was making peeping noises, so we started immitating it and it swam over to the side of the boat (you can see his bow wave)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater, also came over to the boat when we started cutting up bait and tossing it in the drink. Has its wings raised ready to fend off the jaegers
jaeger attack on shearwater (bad photo)
my friend had a 600 mm lense in our small (29 ft) boat. It was pretty comical watching him trying to steady himself. I think he got some good photos, but he fell over (I was spotting him so not overboard) a few times getting them.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Yeah, my photos are really quite similar to BrassNuts' , except his are sharp, well framed and they are usually taken of a lot more exotic birds than my subjects. Speaking of sharp and exotic: EFFING AWESOME Trogon above.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Darwin
Maybe a winter wren, and a brown creeper. . .
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Steve; yes! I had some time to look at the B. Creeper and look at and hear the Pacific Wren. It was a 3 Wren day with Bewicks, Marsh and Pacific. Admitedly, I still slip and mostly call them Winter.
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