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    Lewis's Woodpecker at Ankeny

    Just spend the morning over there yesterday. Great day. We got a glimpse of a Lewis's Woodpecker--my very first. Plenty of Acorn Woodpeckers. A Rough-legged Hawk. Red-tails. Immature Baldies. Countless sparrows. Lots of Bluebirds and Killdeer. Herons, Egrets, Pintails, Coots, one...
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    New Thread For Birdpotter

    Holy Crap!! It has been 534 days since I last posted something on my art thread. What is wrong with me?!?! Now the thread is unavailable. I guess I gotta start a new one. Which means I need new art. Which means I'm going to have to take pictures. Which actually might mean I should create...
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    Help with western Oregon flock id

    This might be fruitless, but I have to ask. This afternoon my husband and I saw a flock of birds that my husband thought at first were snow geese, which is when he brought me outside to see them. On spotting them, I noted that they had short pointed tails and practically no necks. They were...
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    morning in Missouri

    Ahhhh, Missouri. After being here for three weeks, I now remember what made me love living out in the country in Southern MO. Yesterday, my family and I took our first trek down to the creek that borders our property line. My husband and son caught four small-mouth bass, while I watched the...
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    birdpotter back online and roadrunner in MO

    Well, I am not actually back online just yet. I am using a friend's computer right now. I just happened to be visiting her house for the day and she had to go to the store, so I offered to stay back with the kids and hmmmm, oh are you connected???? Apparently there is some system down in the...
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    sparrows from louisiana in feb

    I think I knew what these were for sure when I first watched them. But now I am having some trouble. If I could get some confirmations or corrections, I would greatly appreciate it. The first one and second one seem to be Savannah Sparrows. The third one looks like a Swamp Sparrow just from...
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    sandpipers, gulls, hawks Oh My!

    Okay here are my first few, I am in the process of going through the photos I took from my trip to Louisiana. Most, I am hoping just need confirmation; some I have been really agonizing over. So the first photo is what I think is a Swainson's Hawk. The jiz seems to fit. The dark head, there...
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    Louisiana, white kitchen, and a suburban Shrike

    My son and I drove down to my parents' house in Slidell, LA yesterday from NY. It was a decent drive and fun to watch the seasons change right before our eyes. On our way, we counted 118 American Robins hanging out on the side of the highway from a little after the Georgia border to...
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    Google Earth birding list

    Here is something interesting for New Yorkers. If you have google earth, you should be able to simply click on the link and it will send you right there(otherwise download google earth-it's free and then do it). It is a map of locations that have been well birded last year by three guys. It...
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    something different

    I started a thread a long time ago with some of my work. I have changed a lot of that work; I have taken it in a slightly different direction. I would love to hear some opinions on it, mainly from a birder's perspective. Many people I have encountered have purchased a mug or platter(which are...
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    You first bird for 2007

    I haven't seen a thread for this; forgive me if one has already been started. What has been everyone's very first bird for this year? Today, I have been indoors most of the day and only set foot outside a moment ago for the first time in 2007. and who did I see? A lovely Carolina Wren. What...
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    Question for New Yorkers or anyone who can help

    Greets all, I have a dilemma. I have been living here in upstate NY for a little over 3 years now. It looks as though we will be moving next summer to I don't know where (my husband is a PhD student and has applied to numerous jobs across the country). My biggest regret, if I don't succeed...
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    A week long with recap with nothing too intense

    I drove from upstate New York to Southern Illinois to visit a friend and help him with his opening for his MFA show. It was unbelievable. If anyone is near Carbondale, IL go to the university museum and see it yourself this week sometime. It is all about birds. Big, huge iron birds. I didn't...
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    gull question

    Today while taking my son to school I saw four large groups of gulls (at least 150) catching thermals over the Hudson river. They were in very tight spirals. As we drove down alongside the river for at least 2 or 3 miles there were smaller pockets of gulls everywhere. I have never seen...
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    Finally, something interesting in my yard

    Well, finally, as the title has stated, I have something interesting in my yard. It isn't a House Sparrow, a rat, a cat or even a mole, it is a 1st year Common Yellowthroat. It's been hanging around every afternoon for the last three or four days. I am not sure what it is eating exactly. It...
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    finally, something to get me going...

    I have had such bad luck lately with not only finding time to go out, but also with finding birds when I do go out. One place I love to frequent and have always been able to get some good observing in, gave me nothing but Blue Jays and Chickadees the last time i was there. Love those guys, but...
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    question about Ospreys

    Yesterday my husband, son and I took a drive (trying to keep it a short distance, we ended up getting 'lost' twice and going in circles once). We ended up in a spot where we knew there was an Osprey nest last year. We visited and were not disappointed. We saw one of the parents along with...
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    mt desert island maine

    Well, this year, I didn't see even half the number of warblers I sought out last year, but it was a good year none the less. I was able to watch from the deck of the house where we were staying a male and female Redstart zipping through the trees catching bugs everyday for as long as I wanted...
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    Blue-headed Vireo????

    This is a bird I questioned earlier but had no photos only the song. I thought it was one of the flycatchers, but now looking at it, I think not. Now I have some terrible photos, but looking at them I THINK I might have seen and heard a Blue-headed Vireo. The song seems totally spot on, but I...
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    Mt Desert Island ME coastal birds question

    Well, that title was a bit long, I will admit. Next Saturday my family and I will be off for a week to Mt Desert Island with mother-in-law ( and her boyfriend) and aunt. Our third trip out there and we are all very excited. I have done a lot of memorable birding there. I haven't a huge chunk...
  21. birdpotter

    id help needed

    The other day, and I should have posted this earlier while it was still fresh in my mind, I encountered a bird that I am just not sure about. Grey body, white breast and underparts except the flanks were a pale yellow, white spectacles. Warbler size 5-6 inches, my guess. When I first heard...
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    Just a drive through the mountains

    Nothing big happened today. I took my husband and son for a day long drive up through Vermont along Lake Champlain. It was a gorgeous day for it. A bit of rain, but the light was fantastic. We stopped at Dead Creek WMA, which looks like nothing at all to the untrained eye. There were the...
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    Nikon N60 pooping out

    So I am having trouble with my Nikon N60...I am beginning to hate it. And I just found out that it was discontinued a month before it was given to me on my birthday. I am getting an ERR signal on it and now the shutter won't even open after the last picture I took. I am taking it to the...
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    Bins for kids

    Can anyone recommend a decent pair of binoculars suitable for children? My son, although very young, has a good deal of experience with binoculars, but I feel the last pair was sub-par. I don't think he was able to see very well through them, leaving him disinterested in even checking out how...
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    Black-tailed Gull in Eastern US

    Just in case anyone is in the area or interested, a Black-tailed Gull has been spotted in Vermont on Lake Champlain in Charlotte. It has been there, it seems for three or four days now. I am hoping to get myself up before the crack of dawn tomorrow and get a quick trip in. Will let you know...
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