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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 11:22am PT
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Sibley is good no doubt. But I hate carrying it with me. It's big and I can't bear fouling it up.
The Kaufmann book is a good traveling book. It's small and lightweight. I have several that live around (in the car, in my room over looking field and bird feeders, etc.). It's inexpensive enough I don't mind replacing it when it gets lost (like in Snow Canyon a couple of years ago, doh) or ruined.
As far as the gulls - heck, even with guides I'm generally at a loss. I find it interesting that what most people find as the most common boring birds (e.g., gulls, sparrows) are the most challenging for birders.
THANKS Floyd for that birding url. I will be preparing my letter of resignation here at work since my firing for goofing off online is now imminent. :)
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pc
climber
East of Seattle
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:28pm PT
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New Species discovered in China...
Gigantoraptor. Double overhead at the shoulders!
From Reuters...
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 01:39pm PT
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Radical,
I need to be able to see the tail to make a positive ID on the mystery bird. It's nearly impossible to tell an adult female sharp-shinned hawk from and adult male cooper's hawk with out seeing the tail.
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Kevin Calder
climber
Bishop
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Jun 13, 2007 - 01:41pm PT
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Here are a few better views of the Oriole in question.
Crimpie......Magpie is having a lil baby snack! It's just a "part" of a baby rabbit,from the one the raven has on the post.
Riley, I'm still a greenhorn with the ID stuff, but if I had to bet...I'd guess that's a Coopers Hawk?
Blinny...Yes, doing great here in Bishop, still at the Gallery. I'll visit out there someday. You guys will be at the Tamarack reunion in Mammoth right? Say hello to Mark for me!
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 01:56pm PT
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The wren is a bewicks. The only wren I haven't seen...
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Kevin Calder
climber
Bishop
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Jun 13, 2007 - 02:36pm PT
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Riley...Thanks for the correction. I've been calling those Bullocks for a while now. I'm a pretty novice IDer, and had told a friend that is really good that I'd seen an Altamira and he had said it was probably a Bullocks.I actually get a kick out of telling him I've seen birds that could't possibly be around here!
The Bewicks photo was taken above Round Valley in the Eastern Sierra as was the Oriole.
Quartzflight...Merlin in the net?
Beautiful yellow headed something or other?
Juvy raven?
Awesome photo....Prairie Falcons?
No idea...?
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 04:14pm PT
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1)black chinned hummer(I'm pretty weak on my humming birds)
2)SNEG
3)AMKE
4)That's some sapsucker I don't know
5)GREG
6)GHOW chics
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 04:14pm PT
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Kevin,
Good guesses, but wrong on all..
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 04:43pm PT
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Quartzflight, I'll give it a shot:
Kestrel in the net?
Golden Crowned Kinglet
Ani (forgetting fully name right now)
Merlins (guessing here)
Black throated grey warbler?
edit: now that i *think* about it, my last guess is silly. doh!
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 05:29pm PT
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Good job crimpa girl.
wrong on the last two.
Clues:
THe falcons are ultra rare in the US. Most of the birds were hacked by the pergrine fund in the SW.
The warbler's call is like a souped up black-throated blue warblers call.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 05:44pm PT
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I saw a bunch of the Golden Crowned Kinglets at Hawk Mountain one year. Beautiful little birds. Let me go back to the drawing board on those last two.
**this has been such fun!
Edit: A Cerulean? I'm not even sure it's a warbler now. Sort of have a flycatcher head...
edit edit: I see Radical posted Cerulean at the same time!
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Jun 13, 2007 - 05:47pm PT
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I have been studying Humming Birds...in my feeder. "Aggressive" little bastards they are!
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Jun 13, 2007 - 05:59pm PT
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*this is the one that Quartzite posted above that was not working...
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Kevin Calder
climber
Bishop
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Jun 13, 2007 - 06:32pm PT
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Aplomado Falcons....nice
Yep, Red Breasted Sapsucker.
What's in the net?
Blinny's..I'll email some reunion info I got from John and Leslie.
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Jun 13, 2007 - 07:23pm PT
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Glad to know other climbers are into birds. I don't own fancy equipment but I often "digiscope" birds--mostly rarities for documentation--by holding up a digital camera to a telescope. Here's my birding webpage:
http://www.geocities.com/floyd_hayes/birding.html
And climbing webpage:
http://www.geocities.com/floyd_hayes/rockclimb.html
Radical, Brant are fairly common along California coast during winter. I often see large flocks at Bodega Bay. As I recall they're less common along Atlantic coast.
Here are my takes on the photos since I last looked: (1) King Rail?; (2) dunno; (3) male Black-chinned Hummingbird; (4) Cactus Wren; (5) Cooper's Hawk?; (6) prehistoric imagination; (7) definitely Hooded Oriole; (8) Bewick's Wren; (9) American Kestrel; (10) Golden-crowned Kinglet; (11) juvenile Smooth-billed Ani (living 12 years in South America helps!); (12) Aplomado Falcon (again, helps to have lived in South America); (13) Cerulean Warbler; (14) not showing; (15) male Costa's Hummingbird; (16) Snowy Egret; (17) American Kestrel; (18) Red-breasted Sapsucker; (19) Great Egret; (20) fledgling Great Horned Owl; (21) Great Egret; (22) Rock Wren; (23) Steller's Jay.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Jun 13, 2007 - 07:34pm PT
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I got to help out a fledgling Cassin's Finch the past coupe of days.
3 of them wound up on the ground, in danger of being trod on, so I put them all in a willow bush out of the way. Not 5 minutes, and 2 of them are gone and dad is feeding the remaining chick. Cute little buggers. Didn't know what they were till I saw the finch's feeding them. But that remaining chick didn't just fly off like his siblings. He spent all day yesterday pathetically calling , making his way up stream some. I spied on him, trying not to interfere, and saw him/her getting fed on occasion by an adult, and apparantly trying to feed himself by lunging at bugs.
But I could hear the flock of Cassins singing across the creek, so I moved him over there, where he was instantly attented to by a female bird. After she had fed him a bit, she brook into one of the Cassins trademark songs.
It was breaking my heart listening to him cheep endlessly. I usually try not to interfere, the parents will find them and take care of them on the ground.
Wish I had gotton pictures, he/she was about the cutest thing I've seen, and very trusting of being handled.
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