Lotta usable feathers on that bird, I'd be stomping the field lookin to see if he dropped anything.
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Got any bird pics?
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Gyrfalcon22
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Had to add one from today. I swear, that is a live rooster and not a taxidermy mount. If he keeps doing this everyday a winged predator will likely help me get some good tying feathers soon.
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Gyrfalcon22
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These are leftover plants in coastal WA. The birds pretty much struggle in a poorly run program that sends them out to fend for themselves as basically pellet trout in a lake after they are the last plants from the day or two before season closes. Pretty cruel. Every couple of years we might get a few survivors that try and reproduce, but the majority wither away until a natural predator mercifully gets them.
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Thanks - modern game farm pheasants have had all of the good survival traits bred out of them. California used to have good wild bird populations on many of its public lands. When a population needed to be reestablished or supplemented, wild birds were captured and used.
As land managers, we used to look at wild pheasant populations as surrogates for responsible land management (especially private lands). When land owners managed their property for wild pheasants, native species benefited. Unfortunately, wild ringnecks (particularly in California and Oregon) have suffered the same fate as many critters due to altered habitat, changing land use patterns, and climate change.
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Bass-O-Matic
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"I like fish and I'm not picky"
My wife and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and a day off by spending the afternoon strolling around Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. I've lived in Western Washington for all of my 37 years and have driven by this place maybe 1000 times, but never visited until today. That place is awesome, very pretty, lots of birds, very peaceful. We checked out some binoculars from the visitor without charge, which was cool. We had a lot of fun. We saw a handful of bald eagles, a couple hawks, LOTS of ducks and geese, several GBH, plenty of gulls and sandpipers, and lots of sparrows. Bonus points for the seals next to the boardwalk.
I want to thank all of your contributions to this thread. I haven't spent much time learning about the variety of bird species we have around here, but it was nice to recognize some birds in the field as a result of learning from you all!
1 crappy cell phone shot
I want to thank all of your contributions to this thread. I haven't spent much time learning about the variety of bird species we have around here, but it was nice to recognize some birds in the field as a result of learning from you all!
1 crappy cell phone shot
Glad you enjoyed the delta. I used visit about every two weeks back in the early / mid ‘70’s. It is a special place.
Gyrfalcon22
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I sure miss the full 5.5 mile dike loop hike before the restoration work took it out.
Gyrfalcon:
Do you remember when river breached the dike and a house got stuck in the breach? Yep, that dike walk was great.
Do you remember when river breached the dike and a house got stuck in the breach? Yep, that dike walk was great.
Apologies for the poor quality photo; these parrots were quite noisy as I walked beneath them, they're maybe 50 feet from the Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach. Last winter we rented a place a bit north of here where there were, apparently, more magnoilias. At times we would hear and then see 50 or more of these birds fly into a tree to feast. The noise was impressive!
Parrots in the South Bay
Can U C M? Squawking away at friends hidden in the fronds? One of the fearsome wild parrots of the South Bay, caught by my intrepid clicking...
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Gyrfalcon22
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I looked this up. In the70's? I don't remember. I know on the coast more we seemed to have high water yearly. Was the house on the east side of the river where all the large signs were or perhaps it came from upriver and snuck under the bridge?
Really miss the loop. Cannot believe it is gone. Good memories.
Skagit, from Marblemount to Fir Island. One of those days where I wished I had one of those serious lenses, most of these are huge crops
This guy was working about a three hundred yard stretch, repetitively, not sure if protecting territory or what, it seemed like a limited range.
This guy was working about a three hundred yard stretch, repetitively, not sure if protecting territory or what, it seemed like a limited range.
Gyrfalcon22
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Sometimes you just take defeat as gracefully as you can
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I had heard the distinctive calls of this red-breasted sapsucker on a recent walk at Nisqually. But the bird was on the backside of a large big-leaf maple. And when it first popped into view, it was badly backlit. But I was patient and eventually, its exploration of the trunk brought it out into better light and I had a very good view and managed several nice pictures, including this one.
Steve
Steve
Very nice, gents.
Scott -
I think the two best threads on this site are "got any bird pics" and "what's in your vise". This thread takes the gold. Some of the contributing photographers capture amazing images (to the point where I hesitate to post a picture
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