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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 12, 2012 - 10:49pm PT
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Tell your son thanks Slater...I got a few good shots. Left the really long lens (600mm) home. Still I'm pretty happy with most of the shots.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 12, 2012 - 11:22pm PT
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Neotropic Cormorant, Los Micos Lagoon, Honduras
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Mar 13, 2012 - 01:19am PT
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If I had a 600mm lens I would wear it around my neck in the car and carry it everywhere I went
:)
You never know when a bird might pose for ya!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 13, 2012 - 04:06pm PT
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Violaceous Trogon...one of the big scores of the trip. It was raining very heavy and this beauty was just sitting there as I was walking out on the trail.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Mar 13, 2012 - 10:27pm PT
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Boo!
Great stuff Slater and Bob. Wish I had a 600...
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Mar 13, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
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Thanks Matty...great shot you got there.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Mar 13, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Mar 13, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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looks about right, thanks!
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Mar 14, 2012 - 06:34pm PT
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Here is some sound to augment Bob's wonderful photos. These are from Belize, but it seems they have many of the same birds. I hope this works. I'm just figuring it out. I extracted audio from videos I took, since the videos were lousy, as I was trying to point my DSLR with a 300 mm lens at the birds. It was shaking all over the place
You may have to turn your sound up for the third one.
Keel-billed Toucan
[Click to View YouTube Video]
A different Trogon , Black-headed. We managed to to see 4 Trogon species: Black-headed, Collared, Violaceous, and Slaty-tailed. We didn't see Elegant which Bob posted
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Finally, here is the pre-dawn chourus with at least 3 Blue-crowned Motmots calling in the background.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Edited to add photos of the birds of intrerest. I reposted Bob's of the motmot, since mine was so poor.
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Mar 15, 2012 - 01:16am PT
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Oh yeah, Bob,
That one of the Yellow-throated Warbler against the adobe background on the previous page was great, as eKAt says. Finally, a warbler with a suitable name. And it even works for the female.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Mar 15, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
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Matty up the page: Says Phoebe.
Tony: Beautiful falcon shot a page back
Bob: wow!! what a trip
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Mar 15, 2012 - 11:22pm PT
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Mar 15, 2012 - 11:47pm PT
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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Mar 16, 2012 - 01:33am PT
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Bob,
We were staying in Hopkins in the Stann Creek district. Our friends were "housesitting" for the owners of a small beachside resort, so we mostly did day trips to Cockscomb Basin, Sittee River, Mayflower. We did manage two overnight stays at DuPlooys Inn in the Mountain Pine Ridge area and Crooked Tree nearthe Orange Walk district. This was in July, so many of the birds weren't singing, but our friend had been there a month and had places scoped out so we still found a good number of birds. It would be nice to go in the late winter when the overwintering warblers, etc were still there.
We also visited the Maya ruins at Lamanai and Xuantunich, which were fascinating.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 16, 2012 - 07:33pm PT
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One more time: THANKS!!!! for all the photos.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Mar 17, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
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It was a rainy day on the central coast but I thought I'd go out and take the 2 mile hike across Oso Flaco Lake to the ocean. I saw a ton of birds out, they didn't seem to be bothered by the wind and rain. The swallows were going crazy! I saw some perch for the first time, which was cool. They're usually moving so fast I can barely appreciate them. I saw about 12-15 species of birds in all, but these were the highlights...
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Mar 19, 2012 - 12:25am PT
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Great shots Bob - love the Snail Kite up top!
That oriole above, has a yellow undertail covs., therefore Black-cowled Oriole. Howell and Webb show that as the expected species at Lancetilla, too.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Mar 19, 2012 - 12:47am PT
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come on Crimper! Reilly!
Where are you guys! You can't let BOB have all the fun! You don't have to leave the country to show it off! Let's see your locals!!
Bring 'em out! I got 8 new ones today! I made a list of 34 new spring birds that should be showing up and knocked 4 off the list.
Up to 130! woot woot - shooting for 200 in a year... is that crazy? And so far I haven't left town!!!!!!!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 19, 2012 - 12:57am PT
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Slater, show a little enthusiasm for goodness sake! :-)
I'm going to SE Arizona in May to get my mojo on. Pretty hard to add any
to my list here in CA. There are a few although they're mostly offshore.
I would kill though to see a Great Grey in Yosemite.
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