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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 25, 2011 - 07:36pm PT
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Slater, I've never been, but I do know that a few hundred Mountain Plovers still winter there. Spend a little effort to make sure you see them while you can, as their numbers are dropping faster than fumbled cam.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Dec 25, 2011 - 09:55pm PT
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Will post a pic later - but Dawn and I (mostly Dawn) have been rehabbing a rather large and feisty adult crow for a few weeks now.
He/she didn't jump fast enough to avoid getting smacked by a car while feeding in the roadway - broken wing that we have splinted and taped.
Eats like a fiend, pissed about the bandages and oddly enough - has yet to make any "crow" sounds despite the best vocal urgings of the various parrots, doves, cockatiels and parakeets we also have around the place.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Dec 26, 2011 - 12:13am PT
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Can't wait, you guys are getting my psyched!
I'll post up what I find.
Hope everyone had a good christmas!
I got 7 hours worth of birding videos... jeez almighty.
7 hours of climbing or surfing video would have been more like it, but my wife in now convinced I'm a birding nut so... there you go!
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vôo
climber
Denver, CO
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Dec 26, 2011 - 06:57am PT
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credit Kim Taylor - Surrey Press
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Dec 26, 2011 - 10:17am PT
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Wow cool owl shot. Neat lighting, what was the setup? Flash seems unlikely, maybe a spotlight off to the side or something.
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vôo
climber
Denver, CO
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Dec 26, 2011 - 11:16am PT
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looking for the technical specs.
I like owls
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Dec 26, 2011 - 11:54am PT
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Wow great video amazing. Love the little feathers on the wings leading edges during landing and the claws stretching out to land.
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Lacey
Social climber
Burns,Oregon
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Dec 26, 2011 - 01:18pm PT
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WOW Voo, is all I can say.....
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 26, 2011 - 08:16pm PT
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Washington's tweeters web site has story by about a confrontation between a Snowy Owl and Heron. Here is a link to a pretty cool photo and the story. This occurred at Boundary Bay in BC, right near the US border.
* It's not my photo, so I'm just posting the link **. You can click it and expand.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancyjwagner/6528700885/in/photostream
And thanks vôo , as everyone has said, that video is amazing.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 28, 2011 - 07:53pm PT
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Buy yer tickets bishes! An Asian hooded crane is at the Hiwassee Refuge in Tennessee!
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Dec 28, 2011 - 11:23pm PT
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I've managed to do some birding in SoCal while on the annual family visit. I've missed the Masked Booby and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, but have seen some other good birds. On the way back from Dana Point (Booby), I stopped at the San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge in Irvine. Here I saw a Common Teal, the Eurasian subspecies of Green-winged Teal and a very cooperative Vermillion Flycatcher. All in all a pretty good afternoon of birding!
The Sora and Green Herons were pretty bold
There were lots of Common Yellowthroat
With so many birds about, it was not surprising that there was a Cooper's Hawk lurking
As the light faded, some White-faced Ibis glided in
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 28, 2011 - 11:43pm PT
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Great birding day! Can't wait for Spring here!
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Dec 29, 2011 - 12:32am PT
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Craig,
I'll have to go check it out. I think it's not far from where the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker has been. I've got a long way to go for 505. I need to get to the east and north. It looks like a 1st-year bird - no black breast band. Is that right?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 29, 2011 - 12:54am PT
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Show me some love and tell me this grab out of the bus at 60 mph on the pampa
is an Aplomado. I mean with the supercilium,face patch, and small bill
I'm convinced!
Another crappy shot but enough to ID an Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Dec 29, 2011 - 02:23am PT
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DAng 505!
If I'm lucky I"ll pick up 11 more at Carizzo Plain tomorrow (just saw a Cassin's Kingbird on my street!! my 7 yr old picked it out on a wire!) I'll hit 100 within 2 months.
But the pace will inevitably slow and I have no idea how you get to 500!
But it's fun, one bird at a time! and free!
I feel sorry for anyone who isn't a birder :)
I'm going with my buddies father-in-law who is almost to 700.
I'm a guppie
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Dec 29, 2011 - 03:29am PT
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I need some help from my fellow birders. I saw this one today at Sand Hollow State Park in Hurricane, Utah. I am thinking it might be a Clay-colored Robin? Any ideas? It was Robin like in size. One view shows its back, the other a side view. Thank you in advance for any help.
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Dec 29, 2011 - 03:33am PT
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I also saw a Redhead and a Lucy's Warbler. Both new birds for me today at Sand Hollow State Park, Hurricane, Utah.
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Dec 29, 2011 - 04:21am PT
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Riley is it a Hutton's Vireo?
Thank you for your help. Of course it is a Say's Phoebe. I am trying so hard to find new birds that I forget some of the ones that I have seen in the area. Duh....
Look at the bird in the middle of the third photo. The markings sure look like a Lucy's Warbler and the i-bird app says it could be in this area.
Thank you for helping.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Dec 29, 2011 - 10:34am PT
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Riley,
Yes the San Joaquin WR is great, especially when you consider downtown Irvine with all the tall office buildings right next door. Did you go to UCI or work in the area? I also saw two Reddish Egrets flying around Bolsa Chica. That place is a far cry from when I was growing up and surfing down there. Only a couple of oil derricks and now it is fully tidal since they modified PCH. I understand that at least one Reddish Egret now remains there all year.
I'm thinking Western Flycatcher (Cordilleran where you are) or Hammond's. I struggle with the Empidonax flycatchers. All of our empids are long gone. It has the almond-shaped eye ring and big bill, but looks too yellow underneath for Hammond's.
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