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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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MH, Bobby, Ghost, Chloe,
Great birds. Nice shots all. I enjoy the settings too. Lot of diversity. Birds are such fantastic creatures. Great you guys are taking pics of them.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Some very nice photos here. No pic, but Friday afternoon we saw four red-whiskered bulbuls in the backyard. Nice looking crested birds with a very sweet song.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
So on my way outta St. Looney!!!
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Gary! So lucky! I drove around once for two days in Florida with the express purpose of seeing some red whiskered bulbuls. I never saw them. :(
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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I am going to Panama with my wife in a month to go birding and look for some land to buy. Pipeline Rd near the canal is world famous...close to 500 different birds were recorded in a 24 hour period.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 10, 2008 - 11:50am PT
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Spring seems a good time for birdwatching, and even fuzzy photos.
This is either a "magnificent frigatebird" or a pterodactyl, I'm not sure which.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 10, 2008 - 11:53am PT
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Brown boobies, once rare but now doing better.
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L
climber
If only I could remember....
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Apr 10, 2008 - 02:41pm PT
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Nice boobies Chiloe!
(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Apr 10, 2008 - 03:09pm PT
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Black capped chickaee. I was mowing the lawn and found this poor fellow that had gotten into some long wet grass and wasn't looking too good. After getting in the sun and warming up a bit he seemed ok and flew off.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 10, 2008 - 04:33pm PT
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tolman -- Somehow the huge size works well for that big-hearted picture.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 10, 2008 - 04:36pm PT
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L -- heheheheheheheheheheheh she said "boobies"!
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
On my way to Boulder
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True - nice boobies! And a pretty California Quail (right?) too!
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L
climber
The salty ocean blue and deep
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Chiloe,
More boobies please. :-)
Those guys are so cute!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Do Not Disturb the Boobies.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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A Grouse on the UPP Moab.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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More boobies please. :-)
How about a booby bird story? There's a climb on the Brac, a good one, that once was named
Booby Eggs for Breakfast. That alludes to the fact that booby bird eggs were
a traditional staple of islanders' diets. Well the birds got more scarce and a bird-lover
got wind of this route name, and objected -- so out of respect it's now simply called
Bird Eggs for Breakfast.
A lifelong islander reported that in olden days, what they'd do is take just one egg from
each nest. Boobies generally lay two eggs, but unless food is plentiful,
the parents will only feed the largest chick -- their strategy has a built-in redundancy.
The islanders' custom of taking just one egg thus seemed to fit with the birds' natural
adaptation, and so both coexisted for centuries. More recently, tradition must
have broken down because the birds declined steeply, until the islanders protected them
legally. I am happy to report from my own observations that with this protection the
booby population appears to be thriving, with fat chicks in abundance. They favor
nesting areas with grand views over the sea.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Photo credit: JMalik
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Falcon with glue-in bolt at Rumney -- nice catch, what's the route?
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