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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: April 16 2013,09:14   

Three river otters just slinked through the front yard here. They splashed around in the small pond for a few minutes, then made for the larger pond.

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 16 2013,13:54   

Quote (Robin @ April 15 2013,10:40)

Female Flicker (Colaptes auratus) close-up from Saturday, April 13.

That is a really nice shot!

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 16 2013,13:55   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 16 2013,10:14)
Three river otters just slinked through the front yard here. They splashed around in the small pond for a few minutes, then made for the larger pond.

poidh.

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 16 2013,21:34   

More from my Great Midwest Birding Adventure, mostly in spite of the weather.


Bald Eagle (adult and eaglets) by Lou FCD, on Flickr


Blue-winged Teal (male) by Lou FCD, on Flickr

I think it's funny that I had to go to Indiana to get decent pictures of a fucking shorebird.


Killdeer by Lou FCD, on Flickr


Lesser Yellowlegs by Lou FCD, on Flickr


Wilson's Snipe by Lou FCD, on Flickr


Northern Harrier by Lou FCD, on Flickr

I call this next one, "Crouching Swallow, Hidden Dragon".


Tree Swallows by Lou FCD, on Flickr

It was like Swallopalooza out there. I saw a lot of mixed-species flocks of swallows, and got shots of Tree, Northern Rough-winged, Bank, and Barn Swallows in each of several flocks. It was a Swallowpocalypse.

I added 13 species to the photography life-list in five days, and got much better shots than I had of a handful of birds. Not a bad haul, especially given how cool, windy, overcast, and rainy it was for most of my meanderings.

New species from the trip:

1. American White Pelican
2. Broad-winged Hawk
3. Virginia Rail
4. Lesser Yellowlegs
5. Wilson’s Snipe
6. Horned Lark
7. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
8. Bank Swallow
9. Black-capped Chickadee
10. Golden-crowned Kinglet
11. Yellow-throated Warbler
12. Purple Finch
13. American Goldfinch

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: April 16 2013,22:24   

Quote (Lou FCD @ April 16 2013,13:55)
 
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 16 2013,10:14)
Three river otters just slinked through the front yard here. They splashed around in the small pond for a few minutes, then made for the larger pond.

poidh.

Ok, fine. I'm not proud of what I've got for pics for the otters. I forgot that the focus selector was set on manual while taking photos, and it wasn't far enough off to make me realize something was wrong in the viewfinder.





I'm somewhat more fond of some results I got out of an old Vivitar 500mm f/6.3 preset telephoto lens I was experimenting with. I'm still not sure how I got these; the focus mechanism is awfully finicky on that thing.





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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,07:18   

Sweet, especially considering the focus mechanism issues.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,08:25   

I'm guessing that the otters were a mother and two kits. Two were noticeably smaller than the other, at any rate.

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Freddie



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,09:12   

Quote (Lou FCD @ April 16 2013,21:34)
More from my Great Midwest Birding Adventure, mostly in spite of the weather.

I added 13 species to the photography life-list in five days, and got much better shots than I had of a handful of birds. Not a bad haul, especially given how cool, windy, overcast, and rainy it was for most of my meanderings.

New species from the trip:

1. American White Pelican
2. Broad-winged Hawk
3. Virginia Rail
4. Lesser Yellowlegs
5. Wilson’s Snipe
6. Horned Lark
7. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
8. Bank Swallow
9. Black-capped Chickadee
10. Golden-crowned Kinglet
11. Yellow-throated Warbler
12. Purple Finch
13. American Goldfinch

Beautiful piccies again ... is it me or is that Eagle doing a Linda Blair?

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,10:07   

Quote (Freddie @ April 17 2013,08:12)
Beautiful piccies again ... is it me or is that Eagle doing a Linda Blair?

Nah, it's just getting some exorcize.

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,10:08   

Quote (Freddie @ April 17 2013,10:12)
Quote (Lou FCD @ April 16 2013,21:34)
More from my Great Midwest Birding Adventure, mostly in spite of the weather.

I added 13 species to the photography life-list in five days, and got much better shots than I had of a handful of birds. Not a bad haul, especially given how cool, windy, overcast, and rainy it was for most of my meanderings.

New species from the trip:

1. American White Pelican
2. Broad-winged Hawk
3. Virginia Rail
4. Lesser Yellowlegs
5. Wilson’s Snipe
6. Horned Lark
7. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
8. Bank Swallow
9. Black-capped Chickadee
10. Golden-crowned Kinglet
11. Yellow-throated Warbler
12. Purple Finch
13. American Goldfinch

Beautiful piccies again ... is it me or is that Eagle doing a Linda Blair?

Nope, not just you. Single occipital condyle, for the win!

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khan



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,11:02   

I give up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos.....8497472

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k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,11:13   

Quote (Henry J @ April 17 2013,18:07)
Quote (Freddie @ April 17 2013,08:12)
Beautiful piccies again ... is it me or is that Eagle doing a Linda Blair?

Nah, it's just getting some exorcize.

That's a bald statement

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,11:21   

Quote (khan @ April 17 2013,12:02)
I give up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos.....8497472

oooo that's nice!

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OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: April 17 2013,11:46   

Quote (Lou FCD @ April 17 2013,11:21)
Quote (khan @ April 17 2013,12:02)
I give up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos.....8497472

oooo that's nice!

That's very cool!

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,08:24   

Quote (Lou FCD @ April 16 2013,21:34)
More from my Great Midwest Birding Adventure, mostly in spite of the weather.

Awesome! Love the Killdeer shot!

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,08:29   

Quote (khan @ April 17 2013,11:02)
I give up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos.....8497472

Cool! Saw my first manatee a couple of years ago at Pennekamp park in the Keys. Beautiful creatures!

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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,14:11   



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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,14:17   

Quote (Arctodus23 @ April 18 2013,14:11)

Isn't that just the cutest thing ever!

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,14:43   

Yay, mammals!

(This thread could use more mammals.)

Edited by Lou FCD on April 18 2013,15:44

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,15:28   

Quote (Robin @ April 18 2013,14:17)
Quote (Arctodus23 @ April 18 2013,14:11)

Isn't that just the cutest thing ever!

There was the paper published in the mid-1990s about a rehabilitated male sea otter who had been released on San Nicholas Island and observed for some time. An interesting part of it was the surprisingly extensive list of species that sea otter had raped.

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(Permalink) Posted: April 18 2013,16:05   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 18 2013,15:28)
Quote (Robin @ April 18 2013,14:17)
Quote (Arctodus23 @ April 18 2013,14:11)

Isn't that just the cutest thing ever!

There was the paper published in the mid-1990s about a rehabilitated male sea otter who had been released on San Nicholas Island and observed for some time. An interesting part of it was the surprisingly extensive list of species that sea otter had raped.

Sea otters and AGW

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The whole truth



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(Permalink) Posted: April 19 2013,00:27   

Something weird is going on. A comment of mine didn't show up here even though the menu page (or whatever it's called) shows that I posted a comment.

Edited by The whole truth on April 18 2013,22:30

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 19 2013,07:11   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 18 2013,15:28)
There was the paper published in the mid-1990s about a rehabilitated male sea otter who had been released on San Nicholas Island and observed for some time. An interesting part of it was the surprisingly extensive list of species that sea otter had raped.

And just like that, they go from cute to squick...

Bleah!

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 19 2013,07:18   

I do believe this is going to be the last of my woodpecker nesting photos. This was shot last April 16, but the woodpeckers have not engaged in any nesting activity since then. They both came to the tree today to get some peanuts (I have a feeder on the same branch as the nest cavity), but neither stayed. The male did look into the nest cavity, but he didn't go in or stay. There have been a couple of starlings that have checked out the cavity and they have even gone in and out of it, even though it's difficult for them to do so, so I'm wondering if they've chased the woodpeckers away or if the woodpeckers have just abandoned the nest site for a better location. At any rate, I shot this the last time the female went into the nest:


Female Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)

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(Permalink) Posted: April 20 2013,12:01   

La la la - you can't see me!



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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: April 20 2013,15:43   

No fair, you peeped!

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2013,05:26   

Cute!

Chickadee?

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(Permalink) Posted: April 21 2013,13:18   

Quote (Lou FCD @ April 21 2013,05:26)
Cute!

Chickadee?

A Blue Tit, I think ... but then I couldn't really see him/her :-)

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Joe: As for the authors of the books in the Bible, well the OT was authored by Moses and the NT was authored by various people.
Byers: The eskimo would not need hairy hair growth as hair, I say, is for keeping people dry. Not warm.

  
Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 22 2013,09:05   

Quote (Freddie @ April 20 2013,12:01)
La la la - you can't see me!


HAHAHAHA! Now this made me laugh! Great shot Freddie!

This reminds me of seeing giraffe in the wild. Giraffe in a lot of cases like to have obstacles between them and predators, so they will stand on the other side of trees or rocks or jeeps or what-have-you. The funny thing is, they are significantly taller than most of the objects in their environments, so the act looks rather ineffective.

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we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed.  Bilbo

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Robin



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(Permalink) Posted: April 22 2013,09:09   

"Houston, we have a problem..."





We had a little storm on Friday and the limb with the nest cavity broke off at the entry hole.  :(

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The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

  
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