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Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,11:12    Anyone have an idea as to the identity of the bluebird's friend? I'm coming up goose eggs. (heh) Quote (Lou FCD @ May 10 2009,22:47) Somebody looks unhappy at having his photo taken: and here's a better look at the bluebird's friend. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

khan Posts: 1554 Joined: May 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,11:37    A young one? -------------- "It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad Frequency is just the plural of wavelength... -JoeG

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,16:23    I dunno. But I think I'm getting the hang of this pichertakin stuff. ETA: Damnit. twitpic. Edited by Lou FCD on May 13 2009,23:04 -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Richard Simons Posts: 425 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,20:24    Quote (Richard Simons @ May 12 2009,21:09) Spring is slowly coming to the north end of Lake Winnipeg. [snip] Summer is on its way! I wrote too soon. This morning the ground was grey with ice and there was freezing drizzle. Since then it's got worse, with freezing rain, ice pellets and snow all day, driven by a strong wind. At lunch time I had difficulty crossing the road because the wind was strong enough to slide me back across the ice. However, today I had my first visitor to my bird feeder since I put it up 6 months ago - a grackle has been coming every few minutes. I forgot to mention in my list of birds - I saw a glaucous gull hanging out with the others. They are quite unusual in this area. I've also seen a couple of thin bears around. BTW: I agree with Khan that the bluebird's friend is likely to be a youngster. Many young birds (especially the thrushes and their kin) are speckled and you can see the blue starting to come through (but I'm not particularly familiar with bluebirds). The other bird? Yes, it certainly looks like a sparrow ;-) -------------- All sweeping statements are wrong.

Albatrossity2 Posts: 2780 Joined: Mar. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,21:18    Quote (Lou FCD @ May 13 2009,11:12) Anyone have an idea as to the identity of the bluebird's friend? I'm coming up goose eggs. (heh) Yep, that's a juvenile eastern bluebird. -------------- Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind Has been obligated from the beginning To create an ordered universe As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.                         - Pattiann Rogers

Albatrossity2 Posts: 2780 Joined: Mar. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,21:19    Quote (Lou FCD @ May 13 2009,10:18) A sparrow of some sort? As near as I can tell, that's a female House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) -------------- Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind Has been obligated from the beginning To create an ordered universe As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.                         - Pattiann Rogers

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,22:05    Quote (Albatrossity2 @ May 13 2009,22:18) Quote (Lou FCD @ May 13 2009,11:12) Anyone have an idea as to the identity of the bluebird's friend? I'm coming up goose eggs. (heh) Yep, that's a juvenile eastern bluebird. Thanks again, Alby. I hope I'm not wearing you out. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,22:08    Quote (Albatrossity2 @ May 13 2009,22:19) Quote (Lou FCD @ May 13 2009,10:18) A sparrow of some sort? As near as I can tell, that's a female House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Ah, well then I seem to have located a matching set: -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,22:13    Quote (Richard Simons @ May 13 2009,21:24)   Quote (Richard Simons @ May 12 2009,21:09) Spring is slowly coming to the north end of Lake Winnipeg. [snip] Summer is on its way! I wrote too soon. This morning the ground was grey with ice and there was freezing drizzle. Since then it's got worse, with freezing rain, ice pellets and snow all day, driven by a strong wind. At lunch time I had difficulty crossing the road because the wind was strong enough to slide me back across the ice. However, today I had my first visitor to my bird feeder since I put it up 6 months ago - a grackle has been coming every few minutes. I forgot to mention in my list of birds - I saw a glaucous gull hanging out with the others. They are quite unusual in this area. I've also seen a couple of thin bears around. Damn, that sounds uncomfortably cold.   Quote (Richard Simons @ May 13 2009,21:24)  BTW: I agree with Khan that the bluebird's friend is likely to be a youngster. Many young birds (especially the thrushes and their kin) are speckled and you can see the blue starting to come through (but I'm not particularly familiar with bluebirds). The other bird? Yes, it certainly looks like a sparrow ;-) Thanks for the assist, Richard. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 13 2009,22:21    i saw a dog yesterday.  in my yard.  theres a leash law.  i knocked the fuck out of it with a chunk of stove wood.  he was sniffing around my baby chickens.  sombitches down the street let their younguns AND their animals run around with no supervision.   sis says "ain't the dogs fault, its the shitty owners, so don't take it out on the dog". i said well so far the owners haven't been sniffing around my chicken coop.  when they do then i'll view them as a problem too. -------------- You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 14 2009,15:42    Shot from the driver's seat, out the passenger's side window, hand held and fully zoomed in. The color pattern sort of looks like a killdeer, but I'm not sure. And my best guess on these guys which have been hanging around the docks for at least a couple of years, is Muscovy Ducks, though that would put them a long way from home. Escapius domesticus duckii? -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Richard Simons Posts: 425 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 14 2009,19:50    Lou: yes and yes. Killdeers are easy to identify because of their size, their continual shrieking at any intruder and the bright chestnut on the tail and rump. Muscovy ducks are often domesticated. The dark ones on your last photo are closest to the wild type, which I've looked for in the wild but never seen. BTW: We are back to sun again, but I think people living here should really have a masochistic streak. -------------- All sweeping statements are wrong.

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 14 2009,19:58    Thanks, Richard. What was throwing me on the killdeers was the brown between the black stripes on the belly. All the photos and drawings I was finding had them white through there. Glad you're getting some sun, finally. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Richard Simons Posts: 425 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 14 2009,20:27    Sibley shows a juvenile with brown between the black stripes. I don't know if that means it is a juvenile trait or just individual variation. I tend to just dismiss them - 'Another noisy killdeer' but perhaps I should study them more carefully. "Glad you're getting some sun, finally." On the whole, we have relatively clear skies but in the winter the days are too short and in the summer the sun is not high enough. The locals like the winter because that's when they can do the ice fishing, curling, hockey, sled dog racing, hunting and trapping but it's not for me. -------------- All sweeping statements are wrong.

dvunkannon Posts: 1377 Joined: June 2008 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,07:39    Not In My Back Yard! I saw these guys when I was walking on the grounds of Bertramka, last Saturday. Bertramka is in the Smichov suburb of Prague, just across the Vltava River. Bertramka is famous for Mozart having stayed there during his visits to Prague. He finished Don Giovanni there. In any case, these reminded me more of African masks than Mozart. Anyone know what they are? -------------- I’m referring to evolution, not changes in allele frequencies. - Cornelius Hunter I’m not an evolutionist, I’m a change in allele frequentist! - Nakashima

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,07:48    hemiptera nymphs, maybe lygaeids nice pattern never seen that'un monday I got a life list odonate Lanthus parvulus.  rare critter down here, range just barely extends into the south appalachians where it prefers bogs and seeps and springs.   also two other very very rare caddisflies, one of which has only been collected 5 times (4 and 5 were Monday!!!!).  Other rarities abound, including at least 2 undescribed species (well, one is described and all but published which is why we were there.  now we'll be back again!)   the other sites yielded cool bugs also. stoneflies Viehoperla prob ada and Beloneuria sp. nymphs.  i didn't even collect the mayflies but there were lots of things out and about. May is a fantastic time of the year to stand in the spray zone of a wet rock face. -------------- You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

clamboy Posts: 299 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,12:07    The past few weeks: quaking aspen; noble fir; grand fir; douglas fir (not a true fir! pretender!); ponderosa pine; lodgepole pine; the larch; white bark pine; sub-alpine pine; vine maple; some other kind of maple; oregon grape; trillium; vanilla; western hemlock. Western tanagers; evening grosbeaks; purple finches; mountain chickadees; black-capped chickadees; stellar's jay; mule deer; a cougar print; tree frogs; ants in stumps; elk poop; deer poop; osprey flying over Mariners stadium (eta: excuse me, Safeco Field) with Mike Lowell up to bat; ravens; hairy woodpecker.

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,14:33    Saw a redwinged blackbird today, something else with a very red and black body that I didn't get a good ID on, cedar waxwing, and got pictures of some barn swallows, purple martins, a yellow shafted northern flicker, some kind of orange-billed goose thing (that's the scientific name for that bird I haven't IDd yet), a big ass turtle (like a foot from side to side), some unidentified lizard, and a bunch of crappy long shots of an osprey in its nest. I maxed out the long lens, but couldn't get any closer (the tree it was in was on an island in the river), and it was backlit badly. OK boys and girls, it's time to play, Name that Critter: And here's the flicker: and the osprey: -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

GCUGreyArea Posts: 180 Joined: Sep. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,14:45    that first one is definitely the Loch Ness Monster.

ppb Posts: 325 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,14:45    I'm going to guess the top one is a Double-crested Cormorant. Edit: Probably a juvenile.  From Wikipedia: "The plumage of juvenile Double-crested Cormorants is more dark grey or brownish. The underparts of a juvenile are lighter than the back with a pale throat and breast that darkens towards the belly. As a bird ages, it's plumage will grow darker. The bill of a juvenile will be mostly orange or yellowish." -------------- "[A scientific theory] describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is - absurd." - Richard P. Feynman

rhmc Posts: 340 Joined: Dec. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,16:56    not wildlife seen but wildlife anticipated to be seen, the wife is spending a week with the Caretta Research project: Since 1973, the Caretta Research Project has been a hands-on research and conservation program dedicated to protecting the Loggerhead Seat Turtle, Caretta caretta. The three goals of the project are: To learn more about the population levels and trends / nesting habits of loggerhead turtles To enhance survival of eggs and hatchlings on a nesting beach, and To involve people in turtle preservation. Each year, for 16 weeks during the summer, groups of volunteers travel to the beaches of Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge near Savannah, Georgia, USA. The volunteers monitor egg-laying activity / hatching rates and collect data on the loggerhead turtles... http://www.carettaresearchproject.org/

Albatrossity2 Posts: 2780 Joined: Mar. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,17:11    Quote (Lou FCD @ May 21 2009,14:33) OK boys and girls, it's time to play, Name that Critter: Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) Quote Beats me - looks like some kind of fence lizard Quote Some kind of rock that may have a Grey Catbird or an Indigo Bunting in the shadow in front of it. -------------- Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind Has been obligated from the beginning To create an ordered universe As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.                         - Pattiann Rogers

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,18:39    Thanks for the assist on the Cormorant, fellas. The lizard was a fast little sucker, and the turtle went crashing through the undergrowth like nobody's business - That's what attracted my attention in the first place. I heard all the racket next to the boardwalk as I passed by, and went back to get a look. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

dvunkannon Posts: 1377 Joined: June 2008 (Permalink) Posted: May 21 2009,23:57    Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,May 21 2009,08:48) hemiptera nymphs, maybe lygaeids nice pattern never seen that'un monday I got a life list odonate Lanthus parvulus.  rare critter down here, range just barely extends into the south appalachians where it prefers bogs and seeps and springs.   also two other very very rare caddisflies, one of which has only been collected 5 times (4 and 5 were Monday!!!!).  Other rarities abound, including at least 2 undescribed species (well, one is described and all but published which is why we were there.  now we'll be back again!)   the other sites yielded cool bugs also. stoneflies Viehoperla prob ada and Beloneuria sp. nymphs.  i didn't even collect the mayflies but there were lots of things out and about. May is a fantastic time of the year to stand in the spray zone of a wet rock face. Thanks, i found this Quote Pyrrhocoris apterus Firebug Family: Pyrrhocoridae Again, not shield bugs but having the red markings that may be confused with other families. Pyrrhocoris species are common round the Mediterranean but only recent established in northern Europe. With picture at this shieldbug website. -------------- I’m referring to evolution, not changes in allele frequencies. - Cornelius Hunter I’m not an evolutionist, I’m a change in allele frequentist! - Nakashima

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 24 2009,11:09    House Finch? Presumably a mate? Best shot I could get, Hairy Woodpecker (possibly a Downey, but some of the shots seem to suggest the longer thin beak). Long lens fully extended and hand-held. Sorry. Sunuvabitch wouldn't hold still and kept climbing behind the branches. How rude. Brown Thrasher: I went back to get some more shots of the Osprey in better light, but it was very windy, which caused a lot of shake and the shots came out worse, not better. The above crop is still the best one of the bunch. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 24 2009,11:15    Quote (dvunkannon @ May 21 2009,08:39) Not In My Back Yard! I saw these guys when I was walking on the grounds of Bertramka, last Saturday. Bertramka is in the Smichov suburb of Prague, just across the Vltava River. Bertramka is famous for Mozart having stayed there during his visits to Prague. He finished Don Giovanni there. In any case, these reminded me more of African masks than Mozart. Anyone know what they are? Whoa, neat bugs. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

Tony M Nyphot Posts: 491 Joined: June 2008 (Permalink) Posted: May 24 2009,11:36    Quote (Lou FCD @ May 21 2009,13:33) Don't know much taxonomy, but this looks exactly like the "chameleons" we used to catch in the gravel pits as kids in Colorado. -------------- "I, OTOH, am an underachiever...I either pee my pants or faint dead away..." FTK "You could always wrap fresh fish in the paper you publish it on, though, and sell that." - Field Man on how to find value in Gary Gaulin's real-science "theory"

rhmc Posts: 340 Joined: Dec. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: May 24 2009,12:00    anole

JLT Posts: 740 Joined: Jan. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: May 24 2009,12:03    Quote (Lou FCD @ May 24 2009,17:15) Quote (dvunkannon @ May 21 2009,08:39) Not In My Back Yard! I saw these guys when I was walking on the grounds of Bertramka, last Saturday. Bertramka is in the Smichov suburb of Prague, just across the Vltava River. Bertramka is famous for Mozart having stayed there during his visits to Prague. He finished Don Giovanni there. In any case, these reminded me more of African masks than Mozart. Anyone know what they are? Whoa, neat bugs. Firebugs! Gosh, sometimes I surprise myself ;) -------------- "Random mutations, if they are truly random, will affect, and potentially damage, any aspect of the organism, [...] Thus, a realistic [computer] simulation [of evolution] would allow the program, OS, and hardware to be affected in a random fashion." GilDodgen, Frilly shirt owner

Lou FCD Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: May 24 2009,21:35    Quote (rhmc @ May 24 2009,13:00) anole See, I dismissed anoles as a possibility because of the color and I didn't see the flashy red thingy. Five minutes worth of paying attention would have fixed that. (Where's the 'i iz a idoit' smiley?) -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

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