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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jun 13, 2017 - 12:15pm PT
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 15, 2017 - 09:54pm PT
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I have a (slow to load) slideshow type page to our trip to Adak at
http://173.160.158.251/postings/2017-05-21-Adak/ .
but no text.
The highlights for me were Adak locals and my traveling companions and the birds (mostly but not all in breeding plumage). :
Pretty much all day every day, I wore: cotton T-shirt, light fleece, fleece sweater, fleece vest, puffy, heavy fleece, rain jacket, Bear-Grease 500 toque and a baseball type cap for the rain. About 1/2 the days I wore rain pants.
I had seen many of these before, but I got a lot of pleasure seeing all of them. Also, some of the birds, I just couldn't tear my eyes away from the scope/binoculars to snap a worse than mediocre photo. That would be for the loons, White-winged Scoters and especially Horned Puffins, but also Aleutian Terns, Haunting Lyasan Albatross and Shearwaters were too far away to consider photographing.
Ruddy Turnstone.
Rock Sandpiper.
Gray-crowned Rosey Finch
Red-necked Phalarope
Ringed Plover (near nest)
Common Teal(aka Eurasian Green-winged Teal). these are spectacular imho.
Glaucous-winged Gull, more beautiful in Adak
Song Sparrow (like ours here but larger)
engaging Ravens.
Brambling (Eruopean and Asian)
Far-Eastern Curlew (rare)
Common Eiders. one of my highlights.
Eyebrowed Thrush.
Black-headed Gull. Cool!
Rock Ptarmigan. Cool!
Parasitic Jaegers
Red-breasted Mergansers (on the water),
Kittiwakes. I love these birds.
Black Oystercatcher. What can you say about them.
Arctic Terns flying. ditto above.
Parasitic Jaeger (black silhouette flying),
finally more Common Eiders.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 16, 2017 - 12:28am PT
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What? No Temminck's Stint? Adak is top of me birding bucket list. So cool, he-he.
Got me a lovely Redstart and Stonechat in the New Forest.
The Brits are the OG birders and still cracking on...
They've even a show EVERY EVENING on BBC 2 called Springwatch. One of the hosts is a badazz birder. His co-host quizzed him one night with a recording. He struggled and finally said "immature Gannet." It was an immature Manx Shearwater. I would have been hard pressed to ID it as a bird, frankly.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 16, 2017 - 07:40am PT
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thanks so much darwin, i'm light-headed after that excursion, and will be
returning to those images to refresh the effect the chain had on me.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 16, 2017 - 08:38am PT
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Thanks hooblie. That's the best I could hope for.
Reilly,
Tony has the complete list. We did see a couple rarities that I didn't mention. Red-necked Stints come to mind and were beautiful. Hawfinch and the Bramblings, too. But really, Long-tailed Duck, albatross, loons or Eiders just get to me. Surprisingly, the White-winged Scoters were a lifer for me (afaik), and I loved their Kabuki eye makeup.
* oh, and Bar-tailed Godwit !* How could I forget? Tony might have a photo of that?
Did Tony mention upthread that the Song Sparrows and Grey-crowned Rosy Finches seemed significantly larger and chunkier than ours down here? The finches were and easy ID, but we all did a "WTF is that?" double take the first time we saw the local Song Sparrows.
Lapland Longspurs were the most common bird and we heard or saw them constantly. Beautiful little burbling song. I was so excited when I saw one in Seattle in Fall of 2014.
Here's a female from Adak. They were actually pretty shy.
Adak June 2017.
and one from Seattle in Fall of 2014
?buffy Fall female?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 16, 2017 - 02:26pm PT
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Ooooh, Bar-tailed Godwits! Hope the weather grounds you a week longer!
Went birding in Hyde Park avec une jeune française ...
Got me a cute wee Gallinule walking on water!
Got some particular ravens, too, at the Tower. They have it pretty gud there. These two budfies went back in Grips cage to hang out together. There are some great stories about them. One, now passed, used to lie in ambush near a drinking fountain and wait for girls with ribbons in their hair. When they would stoop over for a drink he would swoop in and snatch thrir ribbon and add it to his booty! HaHaHa!
Fellow audience member at The Globe Theatre...
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Jun 17, 2017 - 01:00pm PT
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Driving from Alaska to Oregon via Montana. I am getting some birds that are common to the lower 48 states, but not common to me. I need some help with the last photo id.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jun 17, 2017 - 01:03pm PT
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Reilly... looks like a great vacation.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Jun 17, 2017 - 05:28pm PT
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Looks like a Tennessee Warbler, Cyndie. Great pics!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 18, 2017 - 02:13pm PT
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Mr and Mrs Pied Wagtail feasting in the inner courtyard of Henry VIII's Hampton Court palace. She kept chasing her hubby away. It was hilarious!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jun 18, 2017 - 04:09pm PT
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You looking at me?
Burrowing Owl, Taos, NM.
The family.
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Jun 18, 2017 - 08:13pm PT
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I have been birding in Great Falls, Montana. I got 15 life birds in two days! I have not birded here before so some are common. Here are a few photos I am not posting them all. I was at Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jun 18, 2017 - 08:25pm PT
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Cindy, did you get out to Benton Lake NWR? There is a black-crowned night heron on the levee at the back of the one-way road, just after the bridge. And there are both burrowing and short-eared owls around as well out there. I was there last week, and there are baby avocets, baby black-necked stilts, ruddy chicks, and of course many goslings. And ducks, cormorants, grebes, phalaropes, no loons, two eagles (your backyard bird!) gulls, terns. Pelicans.
Lots of marmots along the levee route as well. And harriers. Pheasants, too.
Freezout Lake is only about 30 miles out of Great Falls, just past Fairfield. If you do get over there, there are fledged juvenile great horned owls at the garage down the little side road to the east of the maintenance buildings. Two trumpeter swans were there, on Pond 4, as well as lots of the usual suspects.
Have a super time!
feralfae
ps PM me if you want my whole list from last week or if you are looking for particular birds around here.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jun 18, 2017 - 09:09pm PT
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I edited the above post to add more info.
I'm going to PM you here, hope you see it.
ff
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Jun 19, 2017 - 06:51pm PT
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Today I birded at Freezout Lake. It was more desert like than Benton. Beautiful cloud reflections on the water. It was not as easy to get close to the birds. And it got hot, 80 degrees with no wind. I got two life birds; Clark's Grebe and Common Tern. Leaving Great Falls in the morning and heading west to visit my boys and their families.
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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Jun 19, 2017 - 06:54pm PT
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feralfae, I was at Benton yesterday. You are right, lots of chicks around I really enjoyed it out there. Today I went to Freezout and now I am leaving Montana. Thank you for your suggestions and enthusiasm.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 20, 2017 - 11:26am PT
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'e's moving in for the kill!
What a cheeky little bugger!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jun 20, 2017 - 01:48pm PT
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Cyndie
I think your Swainson's is actually a red-tailed hawk--notice the
red tail, the so called 'comma dash' on the leading edge of the wings?
I'm pretty sure. . .
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jun 20, 2017 - 04:22pm PT
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Jun 20, 2017 - 10:49pm PT
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Here's the bird list I came up with for our Adak trip:
Severasl marine mammall species: Sea Otter, Harbor Seal, Steller's Sea Lion and Sperm Whales
A few misses for species that were seen while we were there were Wood Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Sanderling, White Wagtail, Slaty-backed Gull, Tufted Puffin
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