Got any bird pics?
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Very nice. We have had the black-headed grosbeaks show up every year for the past 10 years. Generally late April, early May. Haven’t seen them yet and have fingers crossed!
We had a rose-breasted grosbeak a few year back and I was actually able to get a picture.
The towhee is great too,
We had a rose-breasted grosbeak a few year back and I was actually able to get a picture.
The towhee is great too,
SilverFly
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Thanks. We had a dozen or so BHGBs up briefly about this time last year. They've been back for a few weeks now. Not as many but they are sticking around, so suspect they are nesting nearby.
Had to look up the rose-brested GB. Clearly none here out West, but what a beautiful bird. And yeah, towhees are one of our favorite feeder customers. That and the RB nuthatches. The gibbering "discussions" between the juveniles and adults at the feeder are hilarious.
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Just checking, anyone seeing any towhees? we used to get a bunch in spring, haven't seen any in several years... I think it might be malicious crow patrols who freak them out, but not seeing a lot of pics up here either...
I have been seeing towhees daily in the southern Willamette valley.
Year round in Tacoma and Cle Elum
Osprey love cell towers, too.The returning ball park osprey are moving to a different light pole.
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and the Parks Dept. employees have gotta love it
My son and I did some road tripping last week. One of the things we like to do is check out petroglyphs and pictographs. This one is called Owl Panel and is in 9- mile Canyon near Price, Utah, there are three owls on this panel though the last one is hard to see and not on this picture. Towards Sedona the birds in panels are often toucans though further north you don't see them.
The second panel is near the entrance to Canyonlands Northern entrance, close to Dead Horse Point state park and is a well known panel called "Intestinal Man" which is exactly why we wanted to see it, because it is super unique in depicting anatomy and man, what a cool Petroglyph!
Though I was surprised that to the right of the intestinal man maybe a series of cranes or maybe they are people. And then the anthropomorph to the right of intestinal man both has wings and is flocked with what look like maybe hummingbirds above the top part of the wings?
You can also see what maybe are hummingbirds in the crane/people thing
Heat was really ratcheting up down there so we didn't see many birds other than magpies and ravens and some small birds deep in the canyons. Oh and a dead bat.
The clouds were doing some cool virga stuff one early morning at Arches, so took a million photos to mess around in B&W
The second panel is near the entrance to Canyonlands Northern entrance, close to Dead Horse Point state park and is a well known panel called "Intestinal Man" which is exactly why we wanted to see it, because it is super unique in depicting anatomy and man, what a cool Petroglyph!
Though I was surprised that to the right of the intestinal man maybe a series of cranes or maybe they are people. And then the anthropomorph to the right of intestinal man both has wings and is flocked with what look like maybe hummingbirds above the top part of the wings?
You can also see what maybe are hummingbirds in the crane/people thing
Heat was really ratcheting up down there so we didn't see many birds other than magpies and ravens and some small birds deep in the canyons. Oh and a dead bat.
The clouds were doing some cool virga stuff one early morning at Arches, so took a million photos to mess around in B&W
Very cool, Boot!
I had a target rich morning myself - great Pelican & hiding Rooster close-ups; various shorebirds & a couple brightly colored song birds, all of which I need to identify. Captured 2 Ravens and a distant Osprey. Even caught some swallows on the wing, 1 Heron and even some capr tearing up a pond.
It's a darn shame that no photos were saved. I had a blank SD card after I plugged it into my laptop. No clue what hiccuped; camera checked out ok, reformated the card & it saved a couple test photos just fine. Oh well, I had a lot of good practice. I'll just go do it again tomorrow.
But . . . I'll use a new card, just in case . . .
I had a target rich morning myself - great Pelican & hiding Rooster close-ups; various shorebirds & a couple brightly colored song birds, all of which I need to identify. Captured 2 Ravens and a distant Osprey. Even caught some swallows on the wing, 1 Heron and even some capr tearing up a pond.
It's a darn shame that no photos were saved. I had a blank SD card after I plugged it into my laptop. No clue what hiccuped; camera checked out ok, reformated the card & it saved a couple test photos just fine. Oh well, I had a lot of good practice. I'll just go do it again tomorrow.
But . . . I'll use a new card, just in case . . .
very nice pics. landscape and pictographs
Jim- one of my dumb low level nightmares is a cool day of taking photos and you get home and take a look and the card is all messed up, particularly when I am stoked about some of the shots. Or the lens is covered in crap. I'm not meticulous enough to check all the settings and lens clarity etc (relying entirely on autofocus, not ashamed to admit it)...Mind you, took photos for years with a camera with a terrible sensor and upgraded and now look back and think "most of these old camera photos are underexposed and basically terrible"
Try this though, next time it happens, you may want to double check if the camera filed to a newly named folder, sometimes my Sony makes a new folder on its own and when I upload to computer it defaults to the old folder unless I go look for the new one ....
They absolutely love the Bitter Lake Home Depot cell tower!
Thanks, I did check, Boot; no new files. I was shooting my old Sony A9II. I checked both cards. I'm starting to wonder if I somehow inadvertantly deleted the DCIM folder as I opened it. I checked history but there were no files to restore. No biggy; I'll play catch-up over the next few days.
SilverFly
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Let the mocking begin! 
This fancy bit of red-neck engineering has been a surprisingly effective aid in expanding the Merlin ID range of my cell phone. Just a simple conic section sound collector fabricated from cardboard and (what else) duct tape. I didn't go so far as to do a true parabolic, but that might be next.
Yeah, I know it looks trashy (fits with the work-in-progress deck theme), but Ill be damned if it doesn't pick up birds I cant hear deep in the brush or way down into the floodplain 200' below the house. Lastest ID was a bittern! Playback was faint but matched the Merlin sample.
This fancy bit of red-neck engineering has been a surprisingly effective aid in expanding the Merlin ID range of my cell phone. Just a simple conic section sound collector fabricated from cardboard and (what else) duct tape. I didn't go so far as to do a true parabolic, but that might be next.
Yeah, I know it looks trashy (fits with the work-in-progress deck theme), but Ill be damned if it doesn't pick up birds I cant hear deep in the brush or way down into the floodplain 200' below the house. Lastest ID was a bittern! Playback was faint but matched the Merlin sample.
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