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Just a name I heard a long time ago that I liked, and so I use it now and then for things like this.
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Just a name I heard a long time ago that I liked, and so I use it now and then for things like this.
mummymonkey
Did you spill my pint?
Lilith, I can't make out your bird very well but can you google for Buteo Jamaicensis and see if it's a match?
I hear ya - but its tail wasn't red, and another passer-by who may or may not have known much about birds commented that it wasn't a red-tailed hawk. I''m not convinced on any particular hawk yet, but have ruled several out. Could have been a young hawk which might throw me off on the id-ing?
Thanks. Sorry the pics are so blurry. Who'da-thunk I'd happen upon such a great bird between the parking deck and my office?
Oh, and the Chipping Sparrow has been around lots, and I'm pretty darn sure it is one. I have a pic (a decent one), but don't want to bore everyone with every picture I get.
Now - my fiance/house-mate is kinda getting into this bird-watching thing with me, and his interest would be further cemented by attracting Baltimore Orioles which should be in our area - is a Hummingbird Feeder going to do the trick, or should I be more specific?
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Jeff Corey
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I think you could attract them with a decent pitcher and a hitter or two.
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Walked out the door and spotted a neighborhood Javan Kingfisher (Halcyon cyanoventris) this morning. Pretty bird
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
Feel free to pass on any pics you wish to show us and I'll post them to the Gallery section of this thread's webpage (link in my sig).
email to send to is [EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]
OK - here is what I think is a Chipping Sparrow that has been frequenting our backyard daily. I've listened to its song and compared it with web audio files, and it sounds like the Chipping Sparrow and not similar sparrows. I am posting the pics because I don't yet see it on the Forum Gallery of Birds. I wish I had film in my old Pentax K-1000 with my 200 zoom lens. I'd get some really really nice pics. I may have to splurge on a more expensive digital camera just for this new hobby.
Oh - and I'm starting to be convinced that the hawk I saw was indeed a Red-Tailed Hawk. Unless it was a Ferruginous Hawk, which isn't listed as being native to this area.
Oh - and I'm starting to be convinced that the hawk I saw was indeed a Red-Tailed Hawk. Unless it was a Ferruginous Hawk, which isn't listed as being native to this area.
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bruto
Penultimate Amazing
It looks like what I've always thought were chipping sparrows. If it isn't one, it's trying hard to pass as one.
Kotatsu
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Hi all,
I'm presently at a PhD course, and will comment and add more when I get back home on Friday. However, I am delighted that the thread finally starts generating questions about identification, something I thought would be much more prevalent when I started the thread. We have too many experts here, apparently^^.
I can add Striated Flycatcher Muscicapa striata here yesterday, though, so I'm not entirely idle.
I'm presently at a PhD course, and will comment and add more when I get back home on Friday. However, I am delighted that the thread finally starts generating questions about identification, something I thought would be much more prevalent when I started the thread. We have too many experts here, apparently^^.
I can add Striated Flycatcher Muscicapa striata here yesterday, though, so I'm not entirely idle.
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
Quick one - was it this week that you wanted me to pick up the sightings from the Forum for you? If so - I'll do it, 'cos I have a reformat of the Excel spreadsheet for you.
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
I've added that to the Forum's List - you'll be delighted to know that it is the first one on the list!
I'll wait until you've sorted the ID on that one before I add it to the list.
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bruto
Penultimate Amazing
Not that I'm complaining, but it shouldn't have been. I'm pretty sure I reported chipping sparrows fairly early in the year. But Lilith's are better documented.
Kotatsu
Phthirapterist
No, I had two birds which were not definitely Marsh Warblers, as well as ~10 that were definitely. Of the two aberrant ones (of which one is the one flapping its wings) one (the one not photographed) was probably a Marsh, though, but the one on the picture seems to be a Reed, especially with regards to behaviour. The "Case for case against" I wrote about is in regards to the one I posted a photo of, which shows the underside of its wings.
I don't take biometrics, as I don't yet have a ringing license. I will probably get one this autumn, and then I'll take biometrics properly, though. With regards to fuscus, I don't know. Where is it from? What does it look like? I'll have a look at it when I get back home today.
No, but from the 23rd and onwards, at least until the middle of July, I'd appreciate it. And then again between the end of August and the middle of October.
I will look into this when I get back home again and see if I have simply missed it. Do you know approximately which month you reported it?
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
Can do June and only 1 week off in Sept so will be able to catch up.
Will hope to revamp the webpages to make them a little more interactive by then, too.
mummymonkey
Did you spill my pint?
Any chance of putting the species in "normal" order rather than alphabetical?
bruto
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Kotatsu
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Added reports from Hokulele, BillyJoe, ksbluesfan, Lilith, myself, and bruto (for January).
Do we have some kind of definite on Lilith's hawk? I don't have access to my North American field guides until I get to work on Monday...
No worries^^.
We don't have troupials over here, so I don't really know how they work, but maybe it would work to put out some fruits? I know that thrushes at least are attracted by apples and so on, and orioles sort of look like them^^. Or seeds. I imagine a hummingbird feeder wouldn't have seeds, would it? Just find out what they eat and provide that.
Where in the world are you now? Java or Bali? Either way, new country, no?
In other news, I received an invitation to join the Australasian Waders Study Group on their trip to Broome and 80 Miles Beach in November this year, and if everything works out, I will be going there. If possible, I will also try to go to Eastern Australia to look for Pink-eared Ducks, if I can find someone who works with them and is willing to help me catch some. They are hosts to the only louse of the genus Saemundssonia --- one of the main genera I work with --- on ducks, and the only one outside the "Neoaves". Should be very interesting to get some DNA data from that and see where it ends up...
If so, I will be in Australia around 1-7th of November, and go to Broome on the 8th, stay there until 23rd or so, and then head home for a few days and then to London in late November. If I don't get in contact with anyone who works with that duck, I'll likely just have a look around in Australia for a week or so, or try to find some other wader workers somewhere near.
Do we have some kind of definite on Lilith's hawk? I don't have access to my North American field guides until I get to work on Monday...
Apologies, Kotatsu
No worries^^.
We don't have troupials over here, so I don't really know how they work, but maybe it would work to put out some fruits? I know that thrushes at least are attracted by apples and so on, and orioles sort of look like them^^. Or seeds. I imagine a hummingbird feeder wouldn't have seeds, would it? Just find out what they eat and provide that.
Where in the world are you now? Java or Bali? Either way, new country, no?
In other news, I received an invitation to join the Australasian Waders Study Group on their trip to Broome and 80 Miles Beach in November this year, and if everything works out, I will be going there. If possible, I will also try to go to Eastern Australia to look for Pink-eared Ducks, if I can find someone who works with them and is willing to help me catch some. They are hosts to the only louse of the genus Saemundssonia --- one of the main genera I work with --- on ducks, and the only one outside the "Neoaves". Should be very interesting to get some DNA data from that and see where it ends up...
If so, I will be in Australia around 1-7th of November, and go to Broome on the 8th, stay there until 23rd or so, and then head home for a few days and then to London in late November. If I don't get in contact with anyone who works with that duck, I'll likely just have a look around in Australia for a week or so, or try to find some other wader workers somewhere near.