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    Little Yellow Bird with delicate bill - Dallas, Texas on Jan 14, 2018

    A Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
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    Western Montana sharpie or coopers?

    Sharpshin for the 1st, goshawk for the second. The pale bar on the gtr. coverts is visible on the goshawk.
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    USA, Minnesota, two short audio clips, bird not seen, possibly Bald Eagle?

    The first is definitely a Blue Jay. The second is almost certainly a Blue Jay imitating a begging Red-tailed Hawk- though I can't completely rule out a real Redtail, the very short first note of the second recording sounds very much like a Blue Jay. BLJA's frequently imitate the sound of a...
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    Can someone tell me what is making this nocturnal call?

    Spring Peepers.
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    Weird bird call Ontario canada

    Eastern Chipmunk.
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    New Opticron MM4 spotting scopes

    Ditto here on hopes for a 30x, 32x wide angle fixed ep.
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    Nest and egg ID

    On the theme of learning opportunities here, it might be good to note that it’s certainly not a good idea for anyone to ever walk right up to a bird nest and touch it or the area *anywhere* near it, as seen happening in this photo, as mammalian predators routinely follow the scent trails of...
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    Warbler North Florida?

    N. Parulas have a very narrow area of the throat that's yellow, such that if you only get a look in profile, there's not much of the yellow visible. Here are a few links to photos that illustrate what I mean: http://www.jmu.edu/arboretum/images/birds-NEW/northern-parula-by-m-faintich.jpg...
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    Warbler North Florida?

    This is clearly a Northern Parula. The problem with the wingbars is that, because of molt, the bird’s missing most, though not all, of the feathers of the median & greater secondary coverts, the feathers whose white tips constitute the wing bars. You can pretty clearly see two pinfeathers...
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    Kowa's new 50 mm scope

    http://www.brandonoptics.com/Kowa-TSN-553-50mm-Prominar-Fluorite-Crystal-Spotting-Scope-Angled-Body-_p_2451.html Specs. Disappointingly small field of view for the zoom, and this says it’s non-removable. :-(
    • SEOW
    • Post #14
    • Forum: Kowa
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    Comment by 'SEOW' in media 'Great-tailed Grackle (female)'

    Very nice! This is a Great-tailed Grackle- size of bill is a giveaway.
    • SEOW
    • Gallery comment
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    Two-note whistle in Autumn Florida

    Broad-winged Hawk- or possibly a Blue Jay imitating one (they do this).
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    LBJ, vermont

    A Horned Lark. Cool place to find one.
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    SwaroNikES X95 47-163x zoom 92º constant AFOV

    Cool!
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    Vancouver Island

    Hutton's Vireo. Note especially the narrowness of the lower wing bar in the first pic, and the thickness of, and slight hook at the end of, the bill in pic 2 especially. Some nice notes on the ID of these lookalikes here: http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/HUVI-v-RCKI.html
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    New binoculars from leica

    Fair enough- going by the quoted 2 turns, the Noctivid would be quite slow compared to the Ultravid, FL, & EDG, though pretty close to the SF, and faster than the slowest of them all (by the metric of focus turns), the SV (in fairness the SV & SF focus closer though). There are other things...
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    New binoculars from leica

    Agree here as well! Thanks to those who gave their impressions of focus speed. Sounds like the Noctivid's pretty slow.
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    New binoculars from leica

    Has anyone who's seen them taken note of focus speed on the Noctivid, in the sense of how many rotations of the focus wheel it takes to get from close focus to infinity? I'd be curious to know how they compare with the SF & SV in that respect (& the zippy FL, which to my mind is the perfect...
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    Rusty Blackbird - April, New York

    Yes, this is a female Com. Grackle- the very large bill gives it away.
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    Juvenile Sparrow help, Quebec, Canada

    Juvenile Swamp Sparrows, or possibly Lincoln's, I think. Hard to say which without being able to compare lengths of certain primary feathers.
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    Thrush & Flycatcher - Upstate NY

    Though I agree the thrush looks very good for Bicknell’s, incidentally it is not a juvenile. Adult Bicknell’s Thrushes have lots of yellow at the base of the lower mandible, as in this photo: http://www.migrationresearch.org/mbo/id/bith/id%20bith%20asy%20u%20body%20818.jpg (picture from...
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    Unfamiliar call (audio) - Upstate NY

    This is a Field Sparrow. This isn't a common song variant, but I've heard it before. The first song given in this recording from the Macaulay library at Cornell is a decent-ish match for the one in your video: http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/196442
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    Fall warbler, Corkscrew Swamp, FL

    I would say this is clearly a Black-throated Blue. Besides the large bill, there's really no distinct dark eyeline like a Tennessee would have- the dark of the lores basically just extends down under the lighter eye arc/partial eye ring all the way down to the lower cheek patch area, forming a...
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    Volcan Baru NP, Panama

    Agree with Neils on all counts
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    More from Volcan Baru

    With a bill that tiny, I think that has to be a Tufted Flycatcher. It is also a very bright ochraceous (if color in photo is accurate) for O. Pewee. And its general compactness (though of course that can change with the bird's position) also counts for Tufted. The hummingbird looks to me like...
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