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  1. Katy Penland

    Prodigal daughter returning

    Totes kidding! :king: But it has been several years since I was last online here and soooooo happy to see it still going strong! And also to pick brains about Egypt birding in February so figured I'd better make a donation, too, while I was at it. Also nice to see some familiar names still...
  2. Katy Penland

    Nile Cruise birding

    Will be going to Egypt and Jordan in early February 2020, prolly only birder in our small, private group but want to take advantage of every minute I'm there. First time in Egypt so any and all advice gratefully welcomed! I know we'll be doing the obligatory Giza desert, Nile Cruise, not sure...
  3. Katy Penland

    Steller's Jay feeding behavior question

    After doing a search here on BF for this behavior and finding no reference to it, thought I'd ask if anyone here has any info. Cornell's site doesn't mention this, either. Steller's and other jays, when selecting whole (unshelled, roasted) peanuts will systematically pick up one after another...
  4. Katy Penland

    Bird PRINT ID challenge

    Maybe this will be easier than I think it is, but thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyone can correctly ID the bird that made this print on my sliding glass door. I'd seen hundreds of window strike "leftovers" on the glass but never an entire print of the bird's body and wings until that...
  5. Katy Penland

    Red-eyed, green-winged, six-legged bug

    This guy was on our deck light tonight. Looks like a cross between some kind of mantid and a grasshopper. ;) But I know nada about insects and would sure appreciate some ID help. Thanks! :t:
  6. Katy Penland

    "Furry" moth - ID help, please?

    I know "furry" isn't correct, but I've never seen a moth like this before. It was clinging to the wall under my deck light tonight. Sorry about the auto-focus not picking the right spot (no, no, could never be operator error! o:D). Thanks for any help IDing this fella. Sure was pretty.
  7. Katy Penland

    Birding centric B&B in Southern California

    Hi BirdForumers, Been awhile since I've been back and wow, has this site changed and grown! Fabulous! I'm taking a very informal "survey" of BirdForum members: I'm thinking of offering the master suite in my mountain home as a bed & breakfast venue primarily geared for birders. I know when...
  8. Katy Penland

    Black Bears in Back Yard

    And I thought northern Arizona was wild! Early one morning in late August, I looked up from my computer, whose office overlooks a greenbelt behind my house, to see two black bear cubs climbing a tree. Grabbed camera and went out on the back deck. After the cubs climbed down, I could hear a...
  9. Katy Penland

    Illness in hummers

    Does anyone knows what kind of illness(es) will affect hummingbirds? I have a male Anna's who, in full sun, is so fluffed up he's almost twice his normal size. His head movements are exaggerated, almost like he's losing his equilibrium when doing the typical hummer-sentinel head-shaking while...
  10. Katy Penland

    Pepsis thisbe?

    Hi guys, I don't have a photo but have been trying to ID what I was told was a "tarantula wasp." This was when I lived in northeastern Arizona at about 7,000 ft. ele. After looking at photos of both thisbe and formosa, neither has the long trailing "tail" that this flying insect had. I don't...
  11. Katy Penland

    AVG 8.0 free and unfree

    Hi all, Figuring upgrading and paying for the latest AVG was a good thing, I bought the 8.0 (whatever the latest build was) and have had nothing but problems since. Tech Support doesn't answer emails except in the vaguest of form-letter terms. If I could go back to the free 7x version, I...
  12. Katy Penland

    Summer Seawatch

    This was a guest column I wrote for our little local newspaper about the amazing wildlife I was seeing on my daily beach walks since moving to the San Francisco Bay area a couple months ago.
  13. Katy Penland

    San Francisco Bay area

    Since moving back to Los Angeles from Arizona and then up to the Bay area, I still don't have a yard where I can observe or attract wild birds so decided to stake out a local patch for myself close to home, which is in Pacifica, about 6 miles south of San Francisco and about 1 1/2 blocks from...
  14. Katy Penland

    Mongolian Gull in California?

    There's an interesting discussion currently on Calbirds (a Yahoo group) about the gull photographs at the below link: http://www.ericwpreston.com/VegaGull_1.html I'd be really interested to get opinions of some of you gulls experts on this individual. :t:
  15. Katy Penland

    Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk

    Some great photos of an almost totally leucistic Red-tail at the Arizona Field Ornithologists' website, something I've never seen in the field: http://www.azfo.org/gallery/red_tailed_hawk_leucistic.html
  16. Katy Penland

    Orcas in Santa Monica Bay

    LOL, just found yet another web-posting of a January 12 article that ran in a regional and several of the local community papers here. Who knew? I still don't know who called the writer -- there was a message waiting for me when I got home that day to call the writer from the Daily Breeze, a...
  17. Katy Penland

    Palm trees and snow

    For any of you who are planning to visit southern California in the very near future, be sure to check the weather reports. ;) Malibu got snowed on today and one of the roads at the top of the Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu was closed for over 45 minutes while the road was plowed. But not...
  18. Katy Penland

    Bill Gates' philanthropy under scrutiny

    I know this isn't nature-related, but here's an extremely interesting and disturbing investigative article in today's LA Times. And, for me, an eye-opener on how big philanthropic organizations acquire their deep pockets in the first place -- and in this case, at the expense of the very people...
  19. Katy Penland

    Southern California spots

    I'll be expanding on these and other places in this thread, but I wanted to point out some lesser known areas that non-residents might not otherwise know about when visiting southern California. All of these areas are discussed at length in the indispensible "Guide to Finding Birds in Southern...
  20. Katy Penland

    Gray Whale migration has started!

    As if they can read calendars, the first "official" whales steamed past the American Cetacean Society's census point on December 2 (the census folks man -- person? -- their posts from Dec 1 - May 15 each year). To date, if I'm reading their chart right, they've seen roughly 50 whales since the...
  21. Katy Penland

    Chile's Patagonia wilderness threatened

    An alert from US-based Natural Resources Defense Council: A European energy company is now scheming to build massive hydro-electric dams on every major river in Chilean Patagonia. We need your immediate action to stop this proposed "electrocution" of one of the wildest regions on earth...
  22. Katy Penland

    African raptor ID

    Can someone help out this poster in the Gallery? http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php?photo=118491 Beaucoup arigatos! ;)
  23. Katy Penland

    A 7-marine mammal day!

    Having only moved back to southern California a few months ago, I still haven't gotten my fill of reacquainting myself with the ocean and have been hanging out at the cliffs on Palos Verdes Peninsula looking at birds and whatever marine mammals happen by. We're just on the leading edge of the...
  24. Katy Penland

    2200 Red-throated Loons!

    Actually, probably more than that but that's as many as I could count as they flew by, string after string. And all within 1 hour and 15 minutes! Went for a walk after dinner at Pt. Vicente and could not believe there were so many. I was actually watching a huge aggregation of Common...
  25. Katy Penland

    Holiday hawks and wi-fi vultures

    Birds are suddenly showing up in commercials here in the States. First is one where two Griffin Vultures (I think) were used in a Sprint wi-fi advert -- Sprint keeps you moving, whereas your own network card will keep you sitting, waiting for so long that the vultures will fly in. And two do...
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