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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Cleaning the desk and found an old proof. This just an iPhone copy.
Northern Wheatear
When we were in the mountains of E Oregon above John Day last year for the eclipse we saw one of these in its usual habitat - dry and rocky. It was mid-August so it could have been an early migrant. I had left the camera in the truck 400m away, of course, so no pic. I reported it to OR Audubon but, of course, sans photos they scoffed. Yeah, I’ve only seen a bazillion of these in AK and Central Asia - what the hell do I know?
Big white (mostly) birds on Yellowstone River...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TiyRwjf3XNcGaPuGA
Bear with me here, I'm trying to learn how to transfer pics from Flickr...
Already by mid-July these guys had lost their snowy white cheeks.
Their bills were still pretty bright!
Northern Fulmar visiting...
A Northern Gannet colony with a half dozen marauding Greater Black-backed gulls.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 08:26am PT
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Edmonds, WA ferry is almost always good for Scoters in the winter. I've only seen Surf ones there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:17pm PT
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Love scoters! OK, love all the duckies.
The Good, The Bad, and The Dorky...
Indulge me some artiness...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 23, 2018 - 05:16pm PT
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The rare and little photographed Hardangervidda Piglet Pipit!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 29, 2018 - 04:43pm PT
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My best Wheatear from Abisko Nat Park, Sweden...
Also from Abisko. Not a good pic (very backlit) but the throat really is that blue.
Izzit why it’s called a Bluethroat? It is like a hummingbird when the light catches it.
These are all puffins! Those little buggers are hard to shoot!
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2018 - 11:08am PT
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Were those from your May/June trip Reilly? Nice to see the Bluethroat.
Black Turnstone[my call]. It looked darker in life.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Carancho
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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^ Not in Portland, I suspect, but where?
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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At the foot of the Andes. San Carlos de Bariloche.
I was having I nice IPA (eepah) on the patio of the Llao Llao hotel looking out over the foothills.
Can’t afford the hotel, but the IPA was in my budget and brewed with Cascade and Centennial hops. They have come a long way in the last few years.
Caranchos are in the hawk/falcon family but have gottten use to roadkill, so thats what Argentines call ambulance chasers.
This guy was hoping I’d drop an empanada or something.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me
a spoonbill in a bare tree
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Had a good morning on the idyllic LA River south of Compton.
Straight outta, as it were.
Scissor-tailed and Tropical Flycatchers on same branch!
Scissor-tailed closeup, well, from 100 yards away, that is.
This guy has his winter short tail on.
Tropical 'closeup'...
Osprey having brekky...
Red-tailed was also having brekky...
Avocets doing the solar thang...
Friendly Kestrel...
OK, friendly but dubious.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 10, 2018 - 03:19pm PT
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Actually very funny Little Z.
Very cool about the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher!
A few of late evening glow at Montlake Fill.
embarrassingly mediocre photo except for the evening light bringing out the cinnamon on the Hoddie
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XYZ
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Dec 10, 2018 - 03:40pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 15, 2018 - 11:35am PT
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It might be California but it still gets chilly!
Couldn't find the Painted Redstart but a Brewer's Blackbird
still looks pretty good in the right light...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 16, 2018 - 03:26pm PT
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Even Yellow-rumped warblers get pensive...
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Knave
Trad climber
Napa
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Dec 24, 2018 - 11:30am PT
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Knave
Trad climber
Napa
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Dec 24, 2018 - 11:39am PT
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sween345
climber
back east
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Dec 25, 2018 - 05:52pm PT
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It looks like there's another out of towner come to the city for the holidays.
Three years ago it was this fella.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
He set up camp in Brooklyn, far from his usual stomping grounds.
This year there's another colorfully plumed visitor for the holidays.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Dec 26, 2018 - 09:32am PT
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I've been following the MANDARIN DUCK since around July. Normally, he's around a mile from my house. He doesn't have a migration instinct and how much cold he can take, remains to be seen. By next month, if weather follows its usual pattern, the ducks will be in the centre of the reservoir as it's the biggest body of water and unlikely to freeze all the way across.
This is a big season for birds in CP, the migration results in a spike in window strikes. The birds get collected off the sidewalks, up to the rehab and then they are released into CP. I saw we had a record number of 230 avian species in CP this year.
"Mandy" has been good news for the local birds overall, increasing awareness about window strikes and what to do when you see a bird walking around dazed on the sidewalk. That said, there is no evidence the Mandarin Duck was a window strike and no one knows ho he got there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 26, 2018 - 09:35am PT
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Most ‘Mandys’ are escapees from private collections, not that they’re not worth ogling! 🤪
Knave, very cool shot of yer crane! Where in Napa wuz it?
Sween, you seen that fake boid?
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