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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Whoa! That recording of the lyrebird song is remarkable!!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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A few more from Taos, NM.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Well, did the big day last Saturday and it was a learning experience. Only one owl until sunrise so that was a long 5 hours and we got lost. Then our start location was still too high and snowy to get many of the seasonal birds. That and the fact that we all sucked a identifying sounds in the mountains.
Out of the 5 major locations we had planned, aside from quick stops and side trips, 3 were either completely or partially closed. Long story short additional planning and scouting would have helped.
129 in Fresno County with a ton of big misses.
On the bright side there's room to improve and we learned a lot!
Sorry, so focused all day that I took zero pictures.
Here's our final list kinda organized by family. Sorry for adding a lot of scrolling to the page:
Ross's Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
California Quail
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Spotted Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Burrowing Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Steller's Jay
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Bewick's Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
American Robin
California Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Phainopepla
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
California Towhee
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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Zamfir
Trad climber
Danbury, CT
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Farrington Woods Park in Danbury, CT 2017-05-06. Primarily a MTB and dog-walking area, but has a number of different bird habitats.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Great stuff above, love the Scarlet Tanager.
A few from this morning in Taos, NM.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Birding in Danbury CT, cool! I used to live in Wilton CT in the 70's... Here's a variety pack for Sunday afternoon:
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Funny. :-)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yeah, I was cornfused for a bit there thinking Cordilleran Flycatcher in CT?
This is pretty amazing:
A strong cold front swept through the Monterey Bay region on Friday
bringing with it gusty northwest winds and optimal viewing conditions for
Point Pinos. The show started Friday afternoon with a few Sabine's Gulls
and a scattering of Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels. By dawn on Saturday, the
winds were really cranking and the flight was in full swing all day. We did
hourly checklists in eBird for the day (and those will be fleshed out with
photos soon), but the highlight totals were:
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel: 195 (many right off the rocks; most photographed)
Ashy Storm-Petrel: 2
Leach's Storm-Petrel: 4 (photos of two)
Black-footed Albatross: 100+
Laysan Albatross: 2 (photos)
Red Phalarope: 1927 (photos)
Red-necked Phalarope: 169,000 (simply astronomical numbers, hard to
estimate)
Sabine's Gull: 2335 (many photos, big flocks)
Tufted Puffin: 2
Overall it was the best spring seawatching I've ever had from the point.
BTW, ^^^^ that wasn't 'me'. :-(
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Spring Migration is happening around here.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Cindy, thank you for posting those photos. I've watched them migrate through Montana, and glad to know they are arriving at their summer homes.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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More from Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe, NM.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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May 10, 2017 - 12:18am PT
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This is the first photo i felt meriting posting for quite a while. Not a good photo, very distant and heavily cropped. It's quite a rare sighting though, a Fork-tailed Storm-petrel way into SF Bay in Richmond. It flew through my bino field and I thought WTF! It took some time to process and eliminate possibilities. As it was flying further away, I grabbed my scope but could refind it. I finally realized that it must have been a FTSP. What made me think I wasn't hallucinating was that quite a few had been seen over the last couple of days near shore in the Monterey Harbor. Related to Reilly's recent post quoting the report of a huge flight of pelagic species flying near shore past Pt. Pinos. Checking eBird I also saw that they were seen at Santa Cruz and from the Pacifica pier. Mike Bolte has some great close photos that maybe he will post.
I headed down there today on a longshot that I might find it/they again. This time I was better prepared mentally and optically. Sure enough one or more made several passes that I was able to capture. Eventually I even saw two flying simultaneously
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This is what I originally went there for. A new Osprey pair building a nest on a channel marker.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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May 10, 2017 - 02:10am PT
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Hey Brass I use to live in Norwalk back in the 70's.
Small world.
Had many friends in Wilton.
Graduated NHS '77
CB- love that yellow-leg image and the sandhill cranes!
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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May 10, 2017 - 08:08am PT
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Love this thread!
It's cool seeing the birds I've been watching pass through the Central Valley over the past couple months show up in Alaska
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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May 10, 2017 - 08:55am PT
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Great stuff ^^^^
More from Taos, NM on the daily walk with the pooch.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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May 10, 2017 - 09:00am PT
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nice contributions everyone.
D.Dog - funny seeing those Purple Sunbirds on the Hamelia patens bush. That's a New World plant that must be an invasive there in India. I have them all over my back yard - great flowers for the nectar eaters as well as berries for the fruit eaters. Could substitute a pair of Green Honeycreepers for your Sunbirds and I'd feel right at home.
my only sunbird tick, from Australia (they were common up in the tropical north)
Olive-backed Sunbird, male
Olive-backed Sunbird, female at nest
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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May 10, 2017 - 01:39pm PT
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A few more from Panama...
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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May 11, 2017 - 11:12am PT
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That's a funny lookin' bird, Dave. . .
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 11, 2017 - 02:36pm PT
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My supervisor for today's yard work. Did not seem pleased...
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