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  1. samuel walker

    Storing Food Outdoors - Waterproof, Airtight, Squirrelproof Ideas?

    I'm a cat owner and buyer of kitty litter. Nice plastic containers that the litter comes in are saved.Bird food is sold in the same 10 US lb units as the litter, The size is right for an empty bottle and the cap is still good. I dry marker mine for sunflower,thistle etc. I found a large funnel...
  2. samuel walker

    like it or loathe it #2

    Works for me Ed i'm a hard bitten RB Merganser fan. Those drakes are the top. Got to run, it's their season now 500,000 are passing the Ohio shore on Lake Erie. Sam
  3. samuel walker

    Cooper's or Sharpie?

    Classic tale of the tail for me straight cut tail=(S) for sharpie Your individual has corner cut tail(C) Lord Cooper Sam
  4. samuel walker

    Birds in the snow

    great captures Patti. Pretty Kardinals in Kansas. Sam
  5. samuel walker

    Difficulties in Bird Photography

    The perfect shot involves a lot of waiting. I love the markings on wigeons(insert your species here). I've shot them in perfect light to show the bird. What I may want is to show duck and drake together in one shot on the water. be sure that some idiot Mallard will swim between them at the wrong...
  6. samuel walker

    Wader ID please

    A headache for me too I found a trio in Cape May NJ two weeks go . My wife IDed them from the camera back. Ruddy tunstomes in winter or transistion plumage. The orange legs gave it away. Sam
  7. samuel walker

    moth photography

    hi Ken I get a kick out of macro shooting dragonflies and grasshoppers with my Canon S2 IS. Sam
  8. samuel walker

    I can't believe he ate the whole thing....

    The real prizes for bird and photorapher. Find a waterbird that looks like it's stalking. Then stand and wait quietly to see if it will strike and score. Some of the finest moments in the hobby. Great work to all the patient photographers. Sam
  9. samuel walker

    Comment by 'samuel walker' in media 'Swallow'

    nice looking barn swallow Christine. Clean up was first rate. Sam
  10. hang time

    hang time

    A hovering kingfisher along the beachfront makes an easy target on Memorial Day weekend. Sam
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  11. samuel walker

    Hello From New Orleans LA

    Hi Jeff hope your area is getting back to normal. We NE Ohio birders hosted a New Orleans refugee this past Fall who wanted to do some birding. She had lost all her gear in the storm. A real delight to have Wendy with us as we worked along the Lake Erie shore in October and November. Sam
  12. samuel walker

    Indigo Bunting

    I like your I bird Lynn. Sam
  13. samuel walker

    Extinct or Extant - you decide....

    The whooping crane was declares extinct in 1945. It lives. I can;t say I've tickedi t but it flies between Wisconsin and Florida. They said the passenger pigeon flocks could create clouds to block the sun in the late19th century. That would be 100s of thousands of bodies. I'm not buying...
  14. samuel walker

    Give 5 examples of birding gone bad.

    The local warden Tim decided to open the off limits zone of his patch two years ago on a Saturday in April to the photo enthusiasts. My bud, weather and my wife bit on the offer to hike unmolested on the other sise of the marsh. We forgot about the heavy rains the weeks before. It started out OK...
  15. samuel walker

    Woodpeckers drumming is it vocal?

    i'm amazed at the love some of them have for metal objects. Medium sized woodies here like the redbelly and flicker will pound on gutters and chimney flashings. The stacatto of the rapping on an aluminum gutter can set my nerves on edge. I suppose gutters are a good catch basin for bugs and that...
  16. samuel walker

    What do your friends/Family think of your birdwatching hobby?

    I've gotten my father a retired film photographer involved and he loves it. I'm always photographing birds on digital. He comes from a pure film background but is beginning to understand that the new cameras can do much of the same. Now when we go out birding he asks my film speed, apature etc...
  17. samuel walker

    What does it for you - eyes or ears or both ??

    Most bird I chase I go to see. We're coming up on thrush migration. Specifically the hermit and wood thrush. The two play flutes in the woods both songs are very similar. For me the wood is the preetiest song. very light. They usually stay deep and are hard to see. It's worth stopping and...
  18. samuel walker

    why birds?

    Birdwatching is very accomodating from a geographical point of view. If you want to watch nature you have to be selective. I've always admired elk,buffalo and bighorned sheep. To observe them with rugularity I would need to be in the American west.I live in a bird specie rich area as do many...
  19. samuel walker

    Buzzards and bunnies

    I have a similar situation in Ohio Neil Two rabbits with very similar markings to yours are loose in an area hunted by my version of buzzard, a redtaled hawk.On countless times I've watched the beuteo sit above while they wander into the open. She ignores them and the adult woodchucks. She will...
  20. samuel walker

    ID Help. [Nebraska, USA]

    female RWBB drove me crazy too the first time I saw one then the RW cocks sorted it out for me. The migrating hens always arrive after the males so you don't see both sexes together at first. Sam
  21. samuel walker

    Goose? Swan? Central Florida, USA

    Chinese goose. A farm variety that escaped to the wild. Sometimes called swan goose. I usually find them in the company of mutt and farm ducks. Sam
  22. samuel walker

    Birding: Socially Acceptable in your country?

    Ethnic birders I've encountered two black birder/photographers in Ohio. The most surprising ethnics were the Amish/Mennonite birders. A group of these central europeans settled in Ohio andPennsylvania generations ago. A self proclaiomed plain people who shun cars colorful clothes and...
  23. samuel walker

    what the falc is this??

    You caught a kestrel the smallest of the falcon clan. Sam
  24. samuel walker

    Birding: Socially Acceptable in your country?

    I love the sissy implication of it. I bird regularly in bald eagle rich patches. Love it when some real American comes along and asks if i'm looking for the bald eagle. I come back with a not really seen it a hundred times and I don't admire the bird that much. I'm here today to see a hooded...
  25. samuel walker

    Whats your best wind direction for migration ?

    All my interesting migrants are from North N. America.NW in Fall for the down elevator from Canada and the arctic. Any South wind in Sping for the ride home to the breeding grounds.They fall down then spring up Sam
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