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little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Nov 4, 2017 - 06:40pm PT
Groove-billed Anis have no concept of personal space
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 6, 2017 - 06:08am PT
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 7, 2017 - 09:41am PT
To coin a phrase, the vultures were gathering!


As a pilot I can watch these guys all day!
The last shot shows what I believe is his wingtip being forced upward by the
edge of the thermal. That's how us crankloon soarers find thermals - we fly
along until our wingtip gets a 'bump', then you turn into it immediately to
get into the center of lift.
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 7, 2017 - 07:54pm PT

Thanks Reilly. I'll let you be the judge of the wingtip bump, but I love the photos. Up here TVs are pretty uncommon. I've not seen one in Seattle (they're here, though), and I'm not even sure I've seen one of west of the Cascades. It looks like they're a little more common east of Lake Washington (e.g. over in Marymoor Park).
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 9, 2017 - 09:51am PT
Not sure this will werk - copy link from FB:

https://www.facebook.com/PolarP/videos/645397738996672/

Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 12, 2017 - 07:21pm PT
I think it's fair to call this a West Cost rarity, and it showed up at a friend's feeder just up the block from me! I'm not going to ID it for now just to let you all have the fun of that. It's a juvenile.

That's a Song Sparrow in the background.



john hansen

climber
Nov 12, 2017 - 08:10pm PT
I am going to go with Harris's Sparrow. You said a rarity.

Probably not right but from the Sibley Bird app, could be...
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 12, 2017 - 09:51pm PT
Yeah, that Harris said

“To hell with spending the winter in Oklahoma!”
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 13, 2017 - 07:52am PT
yes, Harris's.

It's one I wish I had just come across and had to figure out rather than, have the neighbor call and say "There is a Harris's in my front yard". I'm not complaining, though.
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Nov 15, 2017 - 07:58am PT
We've had a stray Varied Thrush here in Boulder for a few days, hanging out in a creek behind a shopping center. Very cool! My first of these babies.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 15, 2017 - 08:47am PT
^^^ They deserve better than being called ‘turdi’, no?
Nice shots, Dave! No, really nice with the soft light.
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Nov 15, 2017 - 03:36pm PT
Can I claim it on my list since your pics are so realistic, BN???
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Nov 15, 2017 - 05:08pm PT
Thanks Reilly and Steve, glad you enjoy the pics, very beautiful bird!

Steve, here's the song so you have the 'complete' sighting, so you can check it off :-)

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Varied_Thrush/sounds
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 15, 2017 - 05:21pm PT
As I went out to the street to get my garbage cans I heard something above and JUST as I got to the first bin PLOP! right on my bin! Phooking parrots right above and they had the range and trajectory! They had my bins hostage! WHAT have they been eating?


Those guys have worms?
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Nov 15, 2017 - 05:50pm PT
Verrr eeee nice, as one expects from the finer expressions of SuperTopodom.


Coincidentally(?) the last time I saw more than a few vultures was on a trip with BrassNuts.



DM88T

climber
Dave Tully SanDimas,California
Nov 17, 2017 - 10:04am PT
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Nov 17, 2017 - 10:12am PT
Dem vultures wuz lookin for spurt climbers!
little Z

Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
Nov 17, 2017 - 07:13pm PT
Dar, congarts on the Harris's Sparrow.

BN, great shots of the Varied Thrush.

fun theme - birds on a bare branch

Nicagaruan Seed-Finch, male

Cinnamon Woodpecker

Golden-Olive Woodpecker

Bat Falcon

Red-billed Pigeon

sorry for the criummy quality as most are eitehr taken from far away or are back-lit
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 19, 2017 - 01:47pm PT
There is a Land Rover commercial on TV now that starts in a desert suburb with a young girl dressing a Saguaro as a snow man. It's a pretty dumb and insipid commercial, but as the cactus is disappearing, I'm pretty sure you can hear a Cactus Wren song in the background sound track. Confirmation?

(yikes, weak post for the top of a page)
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 19, 2017 - 02:34pm PT
Yikes, weak post for the top of a page

At least it wasn’t pics of parrot poop!

Nobody got any ideas about the ‘worms’ in my parrots’ poop?
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