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cyndiebransford
climber
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
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Jul 10, 2013 - 09:10pm PT
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Thanks Dave. You Marge and Jake are welcome to come and stay for a visit anytime. I'll take you out to look at birds.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 11, 2013 - 12:18am PT
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Jul 11, 2013 - 05:12pm PT
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If you get Netflix make sure to check out the free streaming documentary on the Harpi Eagle from "Nature". I think they just put it on there recently.
Another web find, Taiwan Blue Magpies
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 12, 2013 - 11:49am PT
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Nice Mike and dirt, really beautiful.
Here are few from my AM hike today.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 12, 2013 - 12:17pm PT
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Thank you Cyndie, I hope we can make it up there in the next couple of years. I have a new work mate who is from the Anchorage area and she has been filling me in on life in Alaska.
This year (Aug.) we are going to Australia and Tasmania, WHEE HOO!
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jul 12, 2013 - 01:16pm PT
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Horned Lark is one of my latest target birds.
Should be an easy one, DE. We get a lot of them over here in Riverside, kind of a nuisance species since they ground-nest and love to use airport fields as habitat...so they represent a pretty serious BASH (bird air strike hazard) problem. You can control them by simply cutting the grass to the correct height, but in the IE it's too dry to maintain that grass length.
Anyway, cool looking birds with the "horns".
Those blue magpies are gorgeous. Bet they make a helluva racket.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 12, 2013 - 01:45pm PT
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Bob, awesome Lesser action shot!
I particularly like the Horned Lark's song - sort of a syncopated cubano ritmo.
edit:
Yes, 10b, BN did well by Chippy although I was also most impressed with
his treatment of Mr Brewer, the likes of which I'm sure I've not seen the
equal. We won't mention the fact that Mr Brewer either rarely poses or his
visage is rarely deemed worthy but, no matter, it surpasses. I'm very partial
to Mr Brewer because I like his song muchly.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Middle-of-Nowhere, Arizona
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Jul 12, 2013 - 01:49pm PT
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Great pics once again y'all. I especially like "Chippy".
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 12, 2013 - 10:54pm PT
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eciya,
I have only made one real attempt on the Horned Lark, I hope to score before Aussie Land. It seems like people find them locally year round.
DE
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jul 12, 2013 - 11:14pm PT
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I too very much like Mr. Brewer. That rascal, and his relatives, stay low in the brush. We felt lucky when this one came high and sat and sang and posed for his photo session. He was a new bird for me so that was extra cool as Sparrows run together in my mind like a messy watercolor.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Jul 12, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
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City of Rocks birds, part deux...
There were a number of babies in the nest pictured below and they were quite noisy whether parents were close by or not. Unusual behavior for babies, at least in my experience. The only time you couldn't hear the babies was when Mom or Dad Sapsucker was squeezing in or out of the hole, pretty funny.
This just fledged Crow was quite comical. He sat on this branch for maybe 10 minutes seeing what his voice could do, all sorts of funny sounds, pretty entertaining.
Below is the best shot I could get of this Virginia Warbler. Very pesky, he just wouldn't cooperate... nice singer
Western Tanager checking things out, then flying the coop...
Another one of the many Green-Tailed Towhees at COR, just before sunset
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 12, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
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Love the GTT!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 13, 2013 - 09:33pm PT
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Indigo Bunting...a chubby one at that.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 13, 2013 - 10:54pm PT
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Great stuff all!! I'm in Ontario now enjoying my annul summer stay at my parents cottage. Got 4 new lifers so far...pine warbler, white throated sparrow, ruffed grouse and something else :) photos upon my return later this month. Cheers
Matt
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 13, 2013 - 11:38pm PT
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I had an incredible birding day today. My mother in law Sharon and I went on the Sea and Sage pelagic trip and I scored at least 3 lifers, Blue-footed Booby, Parasitic Jaeger and Black Storm-petrel. I need to review the final and undisputed list, maybe got 2 more. Sharon scored maybe 9 or 10 lifers, her first pelagic.
While we were out we got the alarm call that a Yellow-billed Cuckoo was seen at San Joaquin (ultra rare for the OC). The hotties were very excited and many of them (and I) declared we would go there right after the pelagic docked.
I took Sharon home and sped to the SJWS.
When I arrived and hiked out to the target area most all of the OC's best birders were in attendance and spred all over combing the area.
The bird had not been relocated.
After hiking all over the place I decided to give up and headed back to the car.
I was almost back when I saw several of the hotties hiking towards me from 100 yards away. I could see Tom B. was on the phone.
Suddenly he hung up and they franticly gestured to me to go back and started running! Someone had seen the bird.
We ran back to the target area where we found they (including Jon Dunn, Nat. Geo. guide editor)had just seen it fly into an area of trees. Once again we all spred out to search and in the meantime the fellow that had initially seen the bird (several hours earlier) showed up.
I followed him and suddenly the Cuckoo landed just above us. He yelled and it flew again.
I had about a 3 second look. It was just enough to confirm ID but was not really a satisfying look, but, it was enough for the check off.
I left feeling guilty that I had seen it and several of the really good birders hadn't.
I am not worthy!
ps. We also saw a Bobcat!
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:14am PT
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Indigos are just beautiful!
Bummer, I hate those 3 second looks!
These are from an Eastern Sierra trip last week. A great birding trip.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 14, 2013 - 10:28am PT
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Sounds like a prime day out Dave! My rules are a bit different. I only check off once I have a photo I can identify the bird from. I started and continue that way because I didn't know left from right about birds so a 3 second look at a new bird tells me nothing, I need to comb the book and can never just remember what I saw =)
The may flies (fish flies) just finished their breeding here. The gulls really go crazy. They will land in pine trees and wildly flap thei wings jumping up and down to shake the flies out of the tree then take off and circle the tree eating the bugs as they fly about.
I have also seen some mother loons and mergansers swimming about with babies on their backs...very cool and not something I see too often up here despite having lots of loons about and I had never see a merganser do it before!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Matty, where do you live again?
Here is one of the Hooded Orioles that live in our yard.
I saw this Cal Thrasher while we were hunting the Cuckoo.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 14, 2013 - 12:32pm PT
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Great stuff Slater and Dee...got greeted by this pretty boy on my walk this AM.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Jul 14, 2013 - 01:28pm PT
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Dave- I live in Santa Clarita currently (just north of LA) but I grew up in Ann Arbor Michigan and my parents have a summer cabin in Ontario on the north shore of Lake Huron. I'm at the cabin now ... my annual summer pilgrimage =)
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