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  1. Bird_Bill

    Natures Valentine

    About an hour ago, while watching the webcam over the upper geyser basin at Yellowstone national park. Wyoming, US Witnessed a rare treat...simultaneous eruption of Old Faithful(right) and Beehive geysers(left) Been there twice and not seen Beehive in all its splendor. A Valentine day...
  2. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I have to hear it, so to speak, do I not? All I'm "hearing" now, is the clock ticking. But, for what?
  3. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I personally, feel the clock has stopped ticking for our ghost bird, many years ago. Today, we have DNA technology and science that can narrow the odds to irrefutable. New, low cost fecal-DNA extraction kits out in the last 6 months. Fecal DNA extraction has been used to track rhino in Africa...
  4. Bird_Bill

    Will a relocated aggressive Mockingbird return?

    Been my experience that mockingbirds dominating during the winter, disperse as weather and food availability improves. I live more rural, than urban, so mockers show up infrequently 3 winters out of 19, I had mockers claiming the suet feeder, and only during cold cold temps and heavy snow cover...
  5. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    The IUCN would have considerable input to governmental agencies throughout the world. Campephilus principalis When I was too young to fully understand the implications, the dusky seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens) was declared extinct in 1990. Three years after the last captive...
  6. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    It is easy for us to prove trolls exist among us. Proving nothing exist any longer, much more difficult
  7. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Since the mid 1940's, only one flight feather belonging to our ghost bird has been found. All the secondaries and many of the primaries are uniquely unlike anything else in North America What is not being seen is rather compelling in the argument. Conclusive photographs and/or witnessed...
  8. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Sure, I am aware of that. The stand of short leaf pine on my place is fully capable of sustaining red-cockaded woodpeckers (Dryobates borealis). Another North American Picidae in trouble. Surely, you've come across them if you venture beyond Manitee State park, and its 800 acres full of bald...
  9. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I live in the (former?) range of that bird. Grew up along the Mississippi, where the ancient stands of bald cypress, and tupelo nurtured generations of the Ivory bill. The river channelized, the habitat erased, the entire ecosystem gone for the most part. The hope exist, but realistically, I...
  10. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi Barney! Walgreens and CVS still have drop off color film and color slide developing, Couple caveats.... Negatives are not returned Turn around time is roughly 3 to 5 days for Walgreens, and 2 to 3 weeks for CVS. Some photographic stores maintain a drop off processing service. If you're...
  11. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi s' Pardon me for the delay Rusty blackbird and the deer after that were at the Harlo island section of the middle Miss. river wildlife refuge system..(NWR) Spent more time under flood water than not, since then. I've home processed B/W and color for years Use a jobo CPE 2 for color, both...
  12. Bird_Bill

    Nuthatch feeding Woodpecker nestling

    Our resident Sittidae, on this side of the world often stash gleaned tidbits into various cavities, such as small nooks under tree bark. I have to wonder outloud, is the nuthatch assuming a parental role? Or, merely putting away food in a handy yawning gape? Both are plausible We know that...
  13. Bird_Bill

    Rarest bird in Northeastern Illinois

    Guess on my part, as I'm certainly no sort of expert. Whooping crane (Grus americana) Current total population is estimated at around 826 birds. Chicago is part of its former breeding range. The current Wisconsin migratory population is just north of Chicago, app. 150 miles Perhaps other...
  14. Bird_Bill

    Bank swallow? NJ

    Tree swallow The relatively straight line of dark to white plumage on the face, just below the eye gives it away. On a Bank swallow, the dark would extend down much further, and with much more irregularity in the border straightness.
  15. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Winter has turned to spring, and the house is slowly self heating to a temperature too unpredictable for black/white film and its processing. Arista Edu Ultra 100 and 200 are economical black/white films that do a splendid job. I'm able to semi stand process using kodak HC-110. Dilution ratio...
  16. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi Andreadawn splendid shot of the jellyfish! Your film kit chronology is noteworthy of technology that brought nature to millions by the photographs made with them. OM!...it set off a race by other makers to try and catch up For folks not familiar with the Nikonos...Perhaps the most unique...
  17. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    My latest batch and effort. Kodak Ektar 100, through a 600mm ED f/5.6...f/5.6 @ 1/60 Processed in kodak flexicolor C-41 chemistry...developer...3:15 @ 38c Scanned on an epson V550 Trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) Getting uppity with two Canada geese between it and I Very dark day, 10EV...
  18. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi Jim Looks promising! Those are the first "film-o-scoped images I've ever seen...birds shot through a scope and captured on an analog film emulsion. Half the fun of getting the film image is getting there to get the image in the first place. Few more from the past few months. I do post...
  19. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi Patudo! Cheers! and thank you. I again almost exclusively use manual focus lenses on my film bodies. Either using a 3 field focus screen or a matte screen. One autofocus body I have, incorporates what's called "catch in focus" That's a proprietary focus priority mode that releases the...
  20. Bird_Bill

    Vintage and Classic Film Cameras

    Hi 42! Hope as is well with you and everyone during these times Yes!...rediscovered film, my film stock stuck way in back inside my fridge last October, while cleaning. 17 rolls of various makes and speeds, from fujichrome 25 to Tri-X 400 Since, added more film in December, and have been...
  21. Bird_Bill

    Two sets of drunks & a dead Capercaillie

    Thank you, fugl Missed that earlier. Two gentlemen responsible, I hope, are headed towards round 2 of punishment. I was logged into the Times earlier. On our domestic {US} front, I read two articles. The endangered species act is about to be drastically rolled back. The EPA has reversed...
  22. Bird_Bill

    Box Turtle - Shaw NR Missouri USA

    That's a Three-toed Box turtle (Terrapene carolina triunguis) Missouri has two native subspecies of the Common Box turtle (Terrapene carolina) Three-toed Ornate Box turtle (Terrapene ornata ornata) Eastern Box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) range doesnt extend this far west. As the name...
  23. Bird_Bill

    Monopod advice please

    I use a Manfrotto 393 on a different brand 600mm f/5.6 and 300mm f/2.8 It comes with its own mounting plate. Your P40 isn't compatible. The mounting plate is similar in length, for balance. Also has two safety pegs, like the P40 This thing is very robust, does the job wonderfully, and cheaply...
  24. Bird_Bill

    Wise move or Inevitable

    Hi PYRTLE, Firstly...the same organization has 27 successful releases into areas with distribution grids similar to what's in the area in question. I wish the article had more technical info than what's there. The cost of direct burial would be vigorously argued. Even the feasibility. Cable...
  25. Bird_Bill

    Feather discoloration

    Hi, ducbucin.....Thank you What appears to be the same bird has turned up a few times since it triggered the shutter in that pic. I agree and suspected leucism, but I'm open to thoughts about any type of environmental staining.
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