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Tony
Trad climber
Pt. Richmond, CA
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Apr 11, 2012 - 03:09am PT
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Riley,
I can't see enough to be confident, but from that angle it looks like a Red-billed Pigeon, which we saw in Belize. This was also where we saw Snail Kite, so ...
Edit: Looks like Reilly beat me to it.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Apr 11, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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Here are some recent shots from a trip up the coast:
Started the trip with some kind of blue bird but didn't have my camera or mind about me yet (too early).
Saw some Black Guillemots
The would sit on the rocks as huge waves crashed. You can see two at the upper left here:
Saw some other friends flying around
And this lil guy (a moth?):
Some sandpipers by the shore:
a gull with a mow-hawk mullet
And some mating Brandt's Cormorants
Lastly caught a Western Grebe
and one more on the way back:
I hate when I forget to engage VR after taking it off the tripod.
I'll be posting up a more general trip report sometime..let u know when I do.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Apr 11, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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cool shots Matty.
Went out today in between the rain squalls and saw some cool stuff at Oso Flaco Lake... These are just the decent shots we got, we saw a ton more.
All in all a fun hour of birding with the kids.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Apr 11, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
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Really great shots Slater and Matty...thanks.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 12, 2012 - 12:12am PT
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Nice Marsh Wren shot.
I find the Marsh Wrens pretty frustrating to photograph. I hear them every day, but rarely seem them and if I do; they almost never sit still long enough to photograph.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Apr 12, 2012 - 01:56am PT
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Matty - that last one is a "house sparrow" with the grey cap
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Apr 12, 2012 - 09:52am PT
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A few after work shots from the other day... Spring is here!
Yes, Marsh Wrens are pesty little guys to shoot, but this one cooperated for a few seconds last year. Noisy little guy!
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Apr 12, 2012 - 10:00am PT
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Some really great photos here.
Up above, that's definitely not a band tailed pigeon. They have bright yellow beaks and feet. We have a band of them that visit the backyard. We really enjoy seeing them up in the foothills, too. They're mountain birds.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 12, 2012 - 10:03am PT
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I would love to hear more about Flickers. Specifically how many Red-shafted have the back-of-the-head markings of Yellow-Shafted. Is this just some mixed breeding? Or does it represent something else? Willoughby!!!
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Apr 12, 2012 - 10:25am PT
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WOW Brass some great stuff there, slater too. Keep em rolling everyone, love this thread! Best OT thread on the taco, maybe we should start another one "liberal birds beat back the right wing" it would probably get more action than this one ha ha ha...
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Apr 12, 2012 - 10:31am PT
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Ya know brass you got me thinking with those awesome owl shots...
Separated at birth???
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Apr 12, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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good one matty
some fabulous shots in this thread. BN-you seem to get what I would think of as the shot of a lifetime several times a day!
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Apr 12, 2012 - 11:57am PT
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It just the lenses Brass has, no talent required....
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 12, 2012 - 12:05pm PT
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Ha!
By way of an example, I have access to the exact same equipment and I can't even get the bird in the frame. I can barely hold the stinkin' lens up let alone find the bird and get him focused.
I think BN takes amazingly great bird photos too. He really has no idea!
Love the 'separated at birth' photos. I got home from work and got several shots of this GHO enjoying some self-scratching. Utter joy on his little owl face. :)
You know, we do the Boulder/Denver HH all the time. If you guys ever get out here, we should do the Boulder/Denver bird watch/photography walks too. I am serious about heading to CA for the same. There was a brief discussion a few pages back about it.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Apr 13, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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Love the Yoda / Owl analogy! Very cool hand = foot kinda stuff...
Matty, here's the photo rig, you just gotta get real close for the good shots;
;-)
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john hansen
climber
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Apr 13, 2012 - 12:56am PT
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Those Leica lens's have always seemed pretty good. I need to get one
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 13, 2012 - 09:55am PT
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Hahahaha! Bunch of funnies here.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Apr 13, 2012 - 10:12am PT
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Yeah and if 8x optical zoom aint enough there's always digital lol!!!
You can bet if I'm ever in the denver area I'll let you know, would be great fun. I'm in the LA area and if anyone comes here let me know too, I have a guest room and an open door for taco friends!! Also for peeps alread in my area we should start have some get togethers too, whether they be HH's, birding trips or both!
Matt
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 13, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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Matty! We just returned from the LA area. Bummer we didn't know sooner.
There will be some birding going on during the Gordofest event too. Will you be there?
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Apr 13, 2012 - 11:34pm PT
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We had a heck of a lot of rain, 24mph winds, thunder and lightning... then in the afternoon after two days of rain... sun and blue skies. I was driving home after buying a bottle-brush bush (so we can plant it and watch hummingbirds ha ha... are we getting obsessed?).
I passed this ag field and there was a tiny drainage ditch that had water in it (usually dry) and on the fence were hundreds of finches. I nearly crashed the car and flipped a U-turn and another U-turn and pulled up over the curb and got out. Most flew away but...
In this picture there are 100 goldfinches... CAN YOU BEAT THAT!??? The little black dots below the top of the fence line are also finches. There were another couple hundred in the fields beyond. Never seen that before!
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