Just a short while ago the Bologna peregrine cam came online. I have come to regard this as a sign that spring is here. Guess that there is a long cam watching season ahead.
See Bologna Peregrine Cam
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Im gonna make this blog to record all my sightings at the local refuge
I haven't posted in a while, but so far this year I have had an astonishing amount lifers considering how many years I've been at this game. Here we go:
Short-tailed Hawk: one at Loxahatchee NWR, near West Palm Beach, in early January. Dark morph.
Rough-legged Hawk: second new hawk species of the year, and another dark morph bird. Vermont, late January.
Pine Grosbeak: the day after my 1st RLHA, in VT on Lake Champlain.
Northern Shrike: dodgy view from the road in VT. Day after 1st PIGR...
After yesterdays snow, winds and bitter cold day I took the chance of a local walk today 2nd Feb. It was a cold, but bright day. Very muddy in places under foot. I am still searching for the Grey Partridges!
I started in the wooded area behind the old village in the hope of finding the woodpecker but had no luck with that, however I did have really good sightings of Goldcrest. Great Tits, Blue Tits, a Wren, Robin and Dunnocks were about and of course the Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves...
This morning I found one colour ringed Sanderling at poolbeg Dublin. The rings were green and white on the left and green and red on the right. To whom do I report this to?
Thanks Conn.
Disclaimer: I am not a professional or official biologist, though I seem to play one on the internet. Raw opinions follow...
I just got back from a week of counting palila on the South and Southwest slopes of Mauna Kea. Met many interesting people doing a variety of conservation work in the state, and got to ask oodles of questions and overhear a lot of interesting conversation. A few of them were working directly with projects related to the palila. We had a day of distance...
The weather has been extremely wet. I got rained out on Saturday. It was just as wet today, but I did a short outing anyhow, and ended up soaked and happy. I explored the South side of Road R off of Stainback Highway. This is the border between the timber plantations and Pu'u Maka'ala NAR. There were quite a few interesting native plants along the trails, despite the timber plantation. There was also a very interesting pit crater near the beginning of Road R, full of native plants...
A revamped web site has been launched by a friend of mine. He lives on the Caledonian canal (literally) and specialises in photographing wildlife and landscapes.
There are some really cracking shots in this site so you might want to have a look at.
www.photo-tech.co.uk
I just discovered the birdforum website and joined today. I have been steadily working towards refining my photography skills for the past couple of years. I just upgraded to a D2X with a 300mm 2.8 lens. Last evening my husband and I were so thrilled when we went to a field to attempt to capture Harrier Hawks in flight. See more photos at my other blog which is
inspirationalphotos.blogspot.com.
We were surprised to see several other photographers standing around. We were quite perplexed...
Here is one more of the short-eared owl that I got last night. She's looking at the photographers lined up along the field. We never get tired of watching them! (I am assuming it's a female because the males are lighter.) I think the one that is in my previous blog has a male in flight because he looks lighter in color, almost white, although it's getting dark in all of these photographs, so it may be hard to tell.
I finally just figured out how to "categorize" these blogs, so I just thought I would post more photos of the Short-eared owl in flight that I've gotten over the past few days. Word is getting around that they are in the area and many are enjoying their spectacular displays. Some of these are repeated from my other blog only because I haven't figured out how these blogs work since they are different from my other blog, which is http://inspirationalphotos.blogspot.com/
Chengdu Birding – Chengdu, Sichuan the gateway to Tibet.
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Today it was a trip to another interesting Chengdu spot – the famous Panda research center. This place is located within parkland about 10km to the north of the city. Here you’ll find a lot of nice woodland, scrubby thicket and large areas of thick propagated Bamboo (a jungle of Panda fodder). The Pandas themselves are kept in large open-air enclosures that are full of trees, bush and scrub – and these...
Well the winds of the past two days did subside, but not before reaching 80 mph and causing considerable damage and even more irritating, disrupting my sleep pattern! By 9.30am I was on North Shields fish quay feeling rather thankful that I was not being blown into the River Tyne. I met up with a few hard core members of the local group and we watched gulls, gulls and more gulls. Unfortunately this did not include any of the rarer gulls that I had hoped for, but none the less watching Great...
We are going to try to visit the field with the Short-eared Owls as often as we can. Last evening was so amazing. There were three owls in a territorial dispute with a Northern Harrier Marsh Hawk. I captured some of their aerial displays, but they were very far away, and so the photos are tiny, but none-the-less, exciting to see. In the photograph with the three owls, there really were three owls, these photos are not manipulated (other than being lightened since the sun was setting).
I went back to the rare plant enclosure off of Stainback Highway. The weather was unusually dry, and I collected a lot of nice photos of plants, fungi and snails. I found the Neatest Plant in the Universe! I'll definitely go back once or twice over the weekend. Photos later...
This morning, I decided to go and twitch the two waxwings that are present on Richmond Park Road in Handsworth. I’d taken a day off to go for a walk, but thought this would be a worthy detour.
I got up to Handsworth at about 9.10am, not really knowing if I’d even see them, thinking that the good hour round trip on the bus would be a depressing waste of time if I didn’t. I walked round the corner, past Asda and the busy driving test centre, with the street relatively busy with people going...
At long last the sun came out and made an attempt to dry out the mud that we laughingly call a garden.
Managed to grab a few shots of a pair of Blackcaps that visited but sadly the male Bullfinch only got to the next field before making off. Shame as he looked great in the winter sunshine.
You'll have to make do with this image instead.
Back after a long vacation here are the recent bird news from Hungary.
Despite the cold and snowy weather of late December there are many geese staying in Hungary and among them nice flocks of Red-breasted Geese. 32 and 45 in a flock were reported from the south and 13 from the west of the country. There were singles of Lesser White-fronted Goose also reported. Wintering geese are a main feature of the Winter birding in Hungary tour along with other interesting birds observed at several...
I have had a very prompt reply from the Northumberland Bird Recorder with regard to my Firecrest sighting. A very rare bird for Northumberland. Apparently there were only two records in 2007! Thats why I'm chuffed folks.:t:|=)|
Well, Tuesday 22nd January was not wet, at least not ‘raining’ wet, when I went for my local walk. Mind you it was at times grey and dismal and much many of the green areas were waterlogged after the heavy rains and sleet of late and in some places pools had formed. It was cold too! I made towards the old village and onwards to the open areas and where the narrow nature trail path leads down to the main road. The upper end of this area gives good views over the city of Newcastle upon...
Chengdu Birding – [email protected] - Chengdu, Sichuan, the gateway to Tibet.
Here’s an interesting notice selling Bird watching to the masses - Chinese style. I think it starts quite well – the sentiment is there – but doesn’t it rather taper off at the end. Please read and then try to translate into English!!!! The best translation gets a prize. Funniest translations are of course those that stand the greatest chance of winning this one.
The famous sign
Well I think we’ve all...
Kohala Watershed Partnership volunteer day beating back the poka and ginger on Pu'u Pili at Kahua Ranch. Mostly a plant and snail expedition. Found a couple new plants for the web page.
Kolea and skylarks were abundant on the ranch pastures, as expected. Leiothrix, white-eye, 'apapane and 'amakihi in the forest, along with some unidentified peeps and cheeps.
Slept in this morning, and it was a fairly wet day above town, so no big adventures. Following a tip I visited Road R off of Stainback Hwy, and was pleasantly surprised to find a very interesting native forest. Weeds were worse than up the hill at Pu'u Maka'ala Army Road, but better than the nearby NE diagonal road that put me off exploring this area much. There was a fairly rich native understory, and there were massive 'ohi'a trees dripping with epiphytes. I'll return soon to search...
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