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| Friday, May 25th, 2012 | 5:22 pm
[sergey_sk78]
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| | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 | 10:23 pm
[theidolhands]
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Summer hummers still here!
This past summer, I discovered a humming bird had made a home of an overgrown tree outside my apartment window. It was probably my first real focus on the feathered life in my city. It was a curious story, because I'd heard the "chit...chit...chit" call for an hour or so at dusk and dawn for a long time. Never had it occurred to me that the sound belonged to anything special until I was coincidentally looking out the window and put two & two together - had I known, the large joy from spotting diminutive birds could've been had a lot sooner! While the exclusive percher, whose favorite branch I could find them on every day, appears gone (after months of favoring me) -- I still hear the calls around and recently spotted a hummingbird searching for some insect treats among the broad and plentiful leaves. These little guys are the main reason that no one has been contacted to prune back the tree to near nubs (as had been done for years previous). Shhh...I want to keep the little iridescent secrets. 
Can you see? If not, here's a decoded version of the pic
Where's Wally?
( more humble hummingbird pics )
P.S. Thanks again for help with identifying the house finch -- I'm delighted to recognize their call all around the city these days! And I still hear them around the apartment, although I haven't managed to see one again yet. Perhaps they are shy? | 9:49 pm
[gkozlov]
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Cooper's hawk. Placerita Canyon, California.  | | Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | 6:27 am
[winnett]
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My Malheur Trip
Malheur Trek 2012 This is my fourth birding trip to Malheur. I decided to go solo this year (mainly because my two best girls had other business) and I ended up camping at Page Springs Campground. Which is one of the farthest points in the complex, but well worth it. It’s a little oasis in the desert. Pics( the long details ) | | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | 9:35 pm
[ladyhappiness]
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| | Friday, May 4th, 2012 | 5:33 pm
[ladyhappiness]
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| | Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | 6:06 am
[winnett]
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April Check-In
Anyone want to check in on their year birds? I'm currently at 133 for WA/OR USA. April was a good month for me, because of all the spring migrants. I got 29 birds for the month and four lifers! (red-throated loon, yellow-billed loon, red-necked grebe, pacific slope flycatcher) Still aiming for 300. I've decided to go to Malheur NWR in SE OR for a long weekend in two weeks. Get some more migrants, desert birds, birds outside of my main area. It was either that or a coastal trip. As I suck at IDing shorebirds, I decided on Malheur. ( my birds for April ) | | Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | 9:05 pm
[_lyra_b]
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Baby Hummingbird Update
As reported earlier, I discovered a hummingbird nest in our back garden a couple of weeks ago. Well, the eggs hatched successfully and the little chicks are really growing, literally right before my eyes. They started out not much bigger than a peanut, all mouths and hungry tummies:  ( See how they grow! ) | | Saturday, April 28th, 2012 | 10:48 pm
[ladyhappiness]
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| | Thursday, April 26th, 2012 | 6:54 pm
[ladyhappiness]
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| | Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 | 7:18 pm
[theidolhands]
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Red-Breasted Mystery Bird
Lovely community! For weeks now I've been hearing this distinct, loud, pretty song that lasts at least an hour, and although there is a big tree right by my bedroom window...could not spot the singer. Well, today I found the guy perched at the tippy-top of a phone poll. My how that sound carries! He seems bigger than the average finch, but I'm not used to such coloring on a sparrow ( same?, different?). And it is a melodic chirp. So, I'm not sure what type of bird it is, although this video appears to match. Any guesses? :) | | Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 | 7:06 am
[_lyra_b]
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Nesting Season...Hummingbirds and Herons
My husband kept noticing a little hummingbird flitting in and out of one of the small tree shrubs against our back wall. Sure enough, she has a nest with two tiny blue eggs there. The architecture is incredible. We are staying as clear of that tree until the babies hatch and grow.  Protective mama:  I found another amazing nest, or rather a "condo" of nests way up high in a swaying eucalyptus tree over two stories high. A family of herons is living there: two adults and a baby. I noticed it last year but didn't get pictures. Luckily they came back this season and I was able to get a few shots ( Rockabye baby in the treetops... ) | | Friday, April 13th, 2012 | 11:15 pm
[gkozlov]
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Verdin. Anza Borrego, California   | | Monday, April 9th, 2012 | 10:22 pm
[mactavish]
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[mactavish]
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Anna's Hummingbird, San Jose, California April 8, 2012
Look at those little feet! I took these shots yesterday morning at a family member's home in San Jose, California. More: http://is.gd/HAppp3 This isn't intended to show awesome bird photography, I shot them with a basic Lumix pocket camera from some distance away, with zoom; I just loved watching the bird dancing in the water, drinking and bathing. | | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 | 9:52 pm
[winnett]
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March Check In
Hello folks. Anyone want to check in for a March bird list? I got 16 birds in March, giving me a total of 107. I just watched the movie The Big Year, too, and I'd like to read the book. I'm twitching pretty hard up here in WA/OR when I can. The Harris' sparrow I got last month was a lifer, and lifers are always sweet. My most extravagant twitch of March was my trip to Damon Point in Ocean Shores to see the snowy owls. The weather was tremendous! I was nearly blown away, completely soaked through, but I spotted three of the owls hunkered down on the ground trying to keep out of the weather. Such a great experience. I drove home pantsless because my clothing was sopping!
common loon
White-winged scoter
sanderling
western gull
Black turnstone
snowy owl
Harris' sparrow
White-throated sparrow
tree swallow
earasian collared dove
turkey vulture
Violet-green swallow
cedar waxwing
lesser scaup
Great horned owl
osprey
| | Friday, March 30th, 2012 | 12:33 pm
[singeaddams]
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Hello! And a question or two...
Hey, there! Beautiful pictures, everyone. I'll be contributing as soon as my camera cooperates with me or I find one that will. I'm in North Carolina and on the third floor of an apartment building with a large balcony in a semi-rural area. Not bad for birds! However, I'm new to having a feeder up, myself, and it's been trial and error with the seed I provide. When I finally settled on black oil sunflower seeds in the shell I had a diverse group of sparrows, finches, titmice, chickadees, towhees, and cardinals etc...visiting and I was thrilled with them. I was less thrilled with the mess the sunflower hulls were making so I switched to plain 'No Mess' sunflower seed. Now the only things that visit are one female cardinal, a squirrel, and a pair of diehard house finches. You'd think they'd like not having to work for their seed but apparently not? Is the hull-less variety less tasty to birds? (Garden Treasures brand sunflower seed chips from Lowe's.) Any advice is very much appreciated! | | Monday, March 19th, 2012 | 6:54 pm
[balthazar881]
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| | Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 | 9:14 pm
[winnett]
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| | Monday, March 19th, 2012 | 11:59 am
[andreev_org]
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Spoonbills are back!
 They were not in our area for about 5 to 6 years. And yesterday I saw them - what is that pink among the young green leaves? Wow, all the familiar faces! They came back with a lot of noise as usual, and immediately started to build a nest. Welcome back, guys! ( Read more... ) |
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