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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 11, 2008 - 12:30pm PT
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Sometimes identification is just too easy-there are some advantages to sailing, you can carry your Ornithology library with you.
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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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Nov 11, 2008 - 02:18pm PT
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Excellent humor Guido!
Bobby D glad you are still taking bird pics. I wish we had a photo of those falcons buzz bombing the vultures at the Trapps during the Gunks Reunion.
This is one of my favorite threads. Keep taking photos everyone.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 11, 2008 - 03:50pm PT
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Okay, here's a ID problem for all you bird freaks:
What is this?
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bwancy1
Trad climber
Here
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Nov 11, 2008 - 05:21pm PT
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I think this is a Myna Bird...
Post Google edit - yep, Myna Bird!
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Nov 11, 2008 - 06:10pm PT
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bob, nice pic of an immature redtail.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 11, 2008 - 06:13pm PT
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I think this is a Myna Bird
Damn! I had no idea, but a google check confirms it. I took the picture last week in a park in downtown Kuala Lumpur. There were hundreds of them running around on the lawns there.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Nov 11, 2008 - 06:16pm PT
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How about this one?
Crimpie must recuse, I'm curious how wide you birder's knowledge is.
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bwancy1
Trad climber
Here
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Nov 11, 2008 - 06:54pm PT
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Muscovy Duck.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Nov 11, 2008 - 07:55pm PT
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Too easy. Alrighty, what's this? (Hint: My proudest birding "send," it was a first for California)
If you guys like bird quizzes, try the ABA's monthly quiz, here; there's prizes!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Nov 11, 2008 - 07:58pm PT
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I guess Muscoveys are mainstream, look unusual to me, but I was a geologist.
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 11, 2008 - 09:27pm PT
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Nice Golden eagle shot.
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bwancy1
Trad climber
Here
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Nov 11, 2008 - 11:21pm PT
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Willoughby,
looks like you have an Olive Tree Pipit there?...rare indeed!
EDIT-in fact, so rare I am now wondering if it is an American Pipit??
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bwancy1
Trad climber
Here
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Nov 11, 2008 - 11:44pm PT
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bwancy1
Trad climber
Here
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Nov 11, 2008 - 11:55pm PT
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 12, 2008 - 02:13am PT
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A few more from the yucatan...
Great thread...what a beautiful world we live in and how these creatures add to our lives.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Nov 12, 2008 - 04:48am PT
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Bwancy nails it, though the AOU currently calls it Olive-backed Pipit. Anthus hodgsoni by any other name, and California's first and only (so far). One record for Nevada, one for Baja, plenty for Alaska, but mostly it belongs on the other side of the Pacific. Consequently, you won't find it in most North American field guides. We caught this bird on Southeast Farallon Island (~27 miles out of Golden Gate), and I'm quite proud to say I identified it correctly before we herded it into a mistnet. Ten points for Bwancy!
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nov 16, 2008 - 01:35am PT
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Somewhere in the Yucatan...
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scuffy b
climber
On the dock in the dark
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Nov 17, 2008 - 11:02am PT
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First, I apologize for the lack of photo.
Yesterday, as I was sitting , reading, a small bird flew
through the sliding door into my living room. After bouncing
off a wall or window or two, it landed on the floor behind a
table, at the base of a wall.
Pussycat immediately went to pay her respects. Fortunately,
she's not such a mighty hunter, and as long as the bird didn't
move they were just staring each other down.
The bird evaded my grasp and took another tour of the room,
landing on a book in the bookshelf--face level, about 2 feet
from the Sibley guide.
So--nice curved beak...hey, it's a Creeper!!
so there I am, like the guy on Guido's boat, but closer to the
subject. I get to check the little cutie from a 6" distance,
with guide in hand.
After a while, I moved the Creeper outside and nudged it onto
a limb of our plum tree, whereupon it hopped over and perched
on my finger for a couple more minutes, then flew off into a
Filbert bush.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 24, 2008 - 12:51am PT
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Scuffy was worrying that he'd killed this thread, so I thought I'd better take him off the hook.
This lady posed for me late one day as we were descending from a gardening session on Zeke's Wall (about 45 miles east of Seattle, and about five miles west of Index):
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Nov 24, 2008 - 01:33am PT
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I'm not much of a birder - for years TM Herbert had me believing that a Junco was a Mountain Chickadee.
My entry from the porch at Royal Robbins cabin in Pinecrest:
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