#cabirds — Public Fediverse posts
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I trashed about .75 GB. I'll see if I can get back to other work now, or if I need to keep culling.
Of course I rediscovered neat pics I never published. Here's a California Gull carrying nesting material to a rocky island in #MonoLake, May 31 2023. I love the high-key effect, with the only color occurring on the bird's head and the leaves it's carrying.
#EasternSierra #CABirds #Birding #NaturePhotography #CamelCaseHashtags
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I trashed about .75 GB. I'll see if I can get back to other work now, or if I need to keep culling.
Of course I rediscovered neat pics I never published. Here's a California Gull carrying nesting material to a rocky island in #MonoLake, May 31 2023. I love the high-key effect, with the only color occurring on the bird's head and the leaves it's carrying.
#EasternSierra #CABirds #Birding #NaturePhotography #CamelCaseHashtags
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I trashed about .75 GB. I'll see if I can get back to other work now, or if I need to keep culling.
Of course I rediscovered neat pics I never published. Here's a California Gull carrying nesting material to a rocky island in #MonoLake, May 31 2023. I love the high-key effect, with the only color occurring on the bird's head and the leaves it's carrying.
#EasternSierra #CABirds #Birding #NaturePhotography #CamelCaseHashtags
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I trashed about .75 GB. I'll see if I can get back to other work now, or if I need to keep culling.
Of course I rediscovered neat pics I never published. Here's a California Gull carrying nesting material to a rocky island in #MonoLake, May 31 2023. I love the high-key effect, with the only color occurring on the bird's head and the leaves it's carrying.
#EasternSierra #CABirds #Birding #NaturePhotography #CamelCaseHashtags
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I trashed about .75 GB. I'll see if I can get back to other work now, or if I need to keep culling.
Of course I rediscovered neat pics I never published. Here's a California Gull carrying nesting material to a rocky island in #MonoLake, May 31 2023. I love the high-key effect, with the only color occurring on the bird's head and the leaves it's carrying.
#EasternSierra #CABirds #Birding #NaturePhotography #CamelCaseHashtags
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Gardened a bit today before the week of rain. Pruned the big Joseph's Coat climbing rose and cut back the flowering perennials inside the deer fence. For the third year, I was surprised to find that the native Hillside Gooseberry
(Ribes californicum) has begun blooming. I never remember to look for it in the "dead" of winter. The hummingbirds find it, though. -
Gardened a bit today before the week of rain. Pruned the big Joseph's Coat climbing rose and cut back the flowering perennials inside the deer fence. For the third year, I was surprised to find that the native Hillside Gooseberry
(Ribes californicum) has begun blooming. I never remember to look for it in the "dead" of winter. The hummingbirds find it, though. -
A White-faced Ibis with a pink crustacean.
#CAbirds #YubaCountyCA #birding #crayfish #NaturePhotography
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A White-faced Ibis with a pink crustacean.
#CAbirds #YubaCountyCA #birding #crayfish #NaturePhotography
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Here's a female Downy Woodpecker using her stiff tail feathers for stability as she examines oak nooks and crannies for insects and spiders. She holds on with her zygodactyl feet – two toes pointing forward and two toes pointing backwards – a woodpecker characteristic that's uncommon in birds.
#Birds #CAbirds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfNorthAmerica #NevadaCountyCA
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Here's a female Downy Woodpecker using her stiff tail feathers for stability as she examines oak nooks and crannies for insects and spiders. She holds on with her zygodactyl feet – two toes pointing forward and two toes pointing backwards – a woodpecker characteristic that's uncommon in birds.
#Birds #CAbirds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfNorthAmerica #NevadaCountyCA
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...Also found while scouting for the Dec. 30 count: 12 White-throated Swifts, flycatching over the lake. Much less common than the Phoebe; hope they'll stick around a week.
Yes it did take a lot of frames to get this shot. Thank science for digital cameras.
These swifts remind me of orcas.
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...Also found while scouting for the Dec. 30 count: 12 White-throated Swifts, flycatching over the lake. Much less common than the Phoebe; hope they'll stick around a week.
Yes it did take a lot of frames to get this shot. Thank science for digital cameras.
These swifts remind me of orcas.
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GM on #Solstice +2. Please enjoy this Black Phoebe, photographed while I was scouting for our Dec. 30 annual bird count. Here in #NevadaCountyCA, they are our only year-round resident flycatcher.
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GM on #Solstice +2. Please enjoy this Black Phoebe, photographed while I was scouting for our Dec. 30 annual bird count. Here in #NevadaCountyCA, they are our only year-round resident flycatcher.
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The Golden Gate Bird Alliance blog has 7 Last Minute Gifts for “the Bird-Obsessed.” Includes anti-collision stickers; bird poetry; and catio plans. https://goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/7-last-minute-gifts-for-the-bird-obsessed/
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The Golden Gate Bird Alliance blog has 7 Last Minute Gifts for “the Bird-Obsessed.” Includes anti-collision stickers; bird poetry; and catio plans. https://goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/7-last-minute-gifts-for-the-bird-obsessed/
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Seriously, I believe that I will make magnetic signs for the sides and rear of my SUV for my next bird count. "I AM COUNTING WILD BIRDS." People react suspiciously to people that stop in front of their home and stare at their yards thru binoculars. Always get at least one person who comes up to ask what I'm doing (which is fine, I'm happy to share my eco-messages). They say, "Just trying to keep out the riff-raff."
#birds #CAbirds #Birding #ChristmasBirdCount #NotCasingYourNeighborhood
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Seriously, I believe that I will make magnetic signs for the sides and rear of my SUV for my next bird count. "I AM COUNTING WILD BIRDS." People react suspiciously to people that stop in front of their home and stare at their yards thru binoculars. Always get at least one person who comes up to ask what I'm doing (which is fine, I'm happy to share my eco-messages). They say, "Just trying to keep out the riff-raff."
#birds #CAbirds #Birding #ChristmasBirdCount #NotCasingYourNeighborhood
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@checkervest Miners in the Yukon at the turn of the twentieth century woefully referred to the Golden-crowned Sparrow as the “no gold here” bird, because its song resembled that depressing phrase.
My photo from the Marysville CA Audubon bird count, Dec 18.
#BirdPhotography #Birding #CABirds #NaturePhotography #CamelCase
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@checkervest Miners in the Yukon at the turn of the twentieth century woefully referred to the Golden-crowned Sparrow as the “no gold here” bird, because its song resembled that depressing phrase.
My photo from the Marysville CA Audubon bird count, Dec 18.
#BirdPhotography #Birding #CABirds #NaturePhotography #CamelCase
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The birds were pretty quiet today on our women's birding group walk at Empire Mine State Park, when it was 37 F. at the outset. I like the way the Common Raven pic turned out, all gritty. It's not usual for this pigeon sp. to fly solo, but as we watched, admiring its crazy yellow feet, another came along. I found the White-breasted Nuthatch (facing down-tree) and the Nuttall's Woodpecker in a busy little thicket just outside the park. It was warmer then, and bugs were busy. I watched the Nuthatch catch a shield-shaped bug (stink bug maybe), and then either cache it in the bark, or hold it against the bark to eat it; couldn't tell.
#birding #CAbirds #birdphotography #NevadaCountyCA -
The birds were pretty quiet today on our women's birding group walk at Empire Mine State Park, when it was 37 F. at the outset. I like the way the Common Raven pic turned out, all gritty. It's not usual for this pigeon sp. to fly solo, but as we watched, admiring its crazy yellow feet, another came along. I found the White-breasted Nuthatch (facing down-tree) and the Nuttall's Woodpecker in a busy little thicket just outside the park. It was warmer then, and bugs were busy. I watched the Nuthatch catch a shield-shaped bug (stink bug maybe), and then either cache it in the bark, or hold it against the bark to eat it; couldn't tell.
#birding #CAbirds #birdphotography #NevadaCountyCA -
Rain coming, just in time for the Marysville #ChristmasBirdCount on Monday. Would not be the first CBC I've done soaking wet. 🌧️
Sacramento NWS: "There is growing confidence that there will be multi-day event of rain and mountain snow sometime between Sunday and Wednesday. By Sunday night, there is a 30-50% chance the western portions of the Valley and across the Sierra will see greater than 0.25" of precipitation and 15-25% throughout the Valley and Northern Sacramento Valley."
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=STO&issuedby=STO&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1Photo: This Red-shouldered Hawk was hunting earthworms in my #NevadaCountyCA yard in the rain. Dec 3 2022.
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Rain coming, just in time for the Marysville #ChristmasBirdCount on Monday. Would not be the first CBC I've done soaking wet. 🌧️
Sacramento NWS: "There is growing confidence that there will be multi-day event of rain and mountain snow sometime between Sunday and Wednesday. By Sunday night, there is a 30-50% chance the western portions of the Valley and across the Sierra will see greater than 0.25" of precipitation and 15-25% throughout the Valley and Northern Sacramento Valley."
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=STO&issuedby=STO&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1Photo: This Red-shouldered Hawk was hunting earthworms in my #NevadaCountyCA yard in the rain. Dec 3 2022.
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@loren Despite the chant, my women's #birding group saw no Goshawk today. (No surprise) But we did see a lot of Golden-crowned Kinglets, lower in the trees than usual. (We may have seen enough GCKIs and Ruby-crowned Kinglets combined to equal a half Gos in weight.) Here are terrible pix of the Kinglets – bad light, bad branches, too far.
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@loren Despite the chant, my women's #birding group saw no Goshawk today. (No surprise) But we did see a lot of Golden-crowned Kinglets, lower in the trees than usual. (We may have seen enough GCKIs and Ruby-crowned Kinglets combined to equal a half Gos in weight.) Here are terrible pix of the Kinglets – bad light, bad branches, too far.
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GM from a point slightly NE of the Sacramento airport, where one can see the eastbound flights over the #nevadacountyCA foothills and be happy to be going #birding but not flying. #cabirds
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GM from a point slightly NE of the Sacramento airport, where one can see the eastbound flights over the #nevadacountyCA foothills and be happy to be going #birding but not flying. #cabirds
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First portrait this season of a Dark-eyed Junco. Looking very dapper this morning.
It's sad to have to fence all the gardens to keep the effing deer out, but it does give the birds a lot of perch options. Which gives me more photo ops, I suppose.
Have a pleasant Sunday, all.
#silverlinings #CAbirds #birds #naturephotography #NevadaCountyCA
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First portrait this season of a Dark-eyed Junco. Looking very dapper this morning.
It's sad to have to fence all the gardens to keep the effing deer out, but it does give the birds a lot of perch options. Which gives me more photo ops, I suppose.
Have a pleasant Sunday, all.
#silverlinings #CAbirds #birds #naturephotography #NevadaCountyCA
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Yesterday, something unusual among the Belted Kingfishers: A female & a male chased each other above my house, which is about 1 km "inland" and 100' uphill from their usual spot on a freshwater lake.
In seven years, I've never seen a Kingfisher up here, away from the water. They kept it up for 3 hours.
They were making their typical loud, chattering call nonstop. Occasionally, one landed in a tall oak tree and the other dive-bombed it.
Here is the female, on her way to dive at the male in the tree.
Have you seen this behavior among Kingfishers before? Upslope and slightly away from the water source? This far outside breeding season?
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Yesterday, something unusual among the Belted Kingfishers: A female & a male chased each other above my house, which is about 1 km "inland" and 100' uphill from their usual spot on a freshwater lake.
In seven years, I've never seen a Kingfisher up here, away from the water. They kept it up for 3 hours.
They were making their typical loud, chattering call nonstop. Occasionally, one landed in a tall oak tree and the other dive-bombed it.
Here is the female, on her way to dive at the male in the tree.
Have you seen this behavior among Kingfishers before? Upslope and slightly away from the water source? This far outside breeding season?
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There were a lot of birds active in the neighborhood this morning, including this California Scrub Jay doing its winter-prep acorn gathering.
Others included an unusual flock of 8 Yellow-rumped Warblers ("butterbutts") – they usually come in ones or twos.
Later, on Lake Wildwood, I found the first-of-season winter ducks: a dozen Common Mergansers (11 females and one male).
So, the winter residents are starting to arrive here in the Sierra foothills.
#NevadaCountyCA #birds #CAbirds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #autumn
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There were a lot of birds active in the neighborhood this morning, including this California Scrub Jay doing its winter-prep acorn gathering.
Others included an unusual flock of 8 Yellow-rumped Warblers ("butterbutts") – they usually come in ones or twos.
Later, on Lake Wildwood, I found the first-of-season winter ducks: a dozen Common Mergansers (11 females and one male).
So, the winter residents are starting to arrive here in the Sierra foothills.
#NevadaCountyCA #birds #CAbirds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #autumn
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The Merlin app identifies birds making calls and songs in real time. Product of Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. It's a sweet thing for anyone who hears birds and wonders, "What is that?"
Absolutely zero learning curve.
Here's a sample report from my yard (screenshot).
One day recently, I started recording and just let it run for 30 minutes while I gardened. If I had been paying attention, I might have had eight species.
Merlin had 15, including an uncommon warbler.
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The Merlin app identifies birds making calls and songs in real time. Product of Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. It's a sweet thing for anyone who hears birds and wonders, "What is that?"
Absolutely zero learning curve.
Here's a sample report from my yard (screenshot).
One day recently, I started recording and just let it run for 30 minutes while I gardened. If I had been paying attention, I might have had eight species.
Merlin had 15, including an uncommon warbler.
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@grifferz I have emailed excerpts from this blog post, and a link to the recent Atlantic story, to the list admins of four #CAbirds listservs on .io. #birds #chagossians #iodomain https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/10/the-last-colony-philippe-sands/675746/
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@grifferz I have emailed excerpts from this blog post, and a link to the recent Atlantic story, to the list admins of four #CAbirds listservs on .io. #birds #chagossians #iodomain https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/10/the-last-colony-philippe-sands/675746/
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I see Red-breasted Sapsuckers here at 1,500 feet in #NevadaCountyCA only a few times a year, always in fall and winter.
Today this one foraged in the oak trees near the house long enough for me to get photos both through the double-paned glass and through an open door.
It was a good day 🍁. Hope yours was, too. #sapsuckersunday #birdphotography #naturephotography #CAbirds
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I see Red-breasted Sapsuckers here at 1,500 feet in #NevadaCountyCA only a few times a year, always in fall and winter.
Today this one foraged in the oak trees near the house long enough for me to get photos both through the double-paned glass and through an open door.
It was a good day 🍁. Hope yours was, too. #sapsuckersunday #birdphotography #naturephotography #CAbirds
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@anniegreens Can't say I share your opinion 🤷♀️ , but here are some for you to enjoy. Common Ravens, Sierra County, June 2020 #birdsofmastodon #CAbirds #birdphotography
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@anniegreens Can't say I share your opinion 🤷♀️ , but here are some for you to enjoy. Common Ravens, Sierra County, June 2020 #birdsofmastodon #CAbirds #birdphotography
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Lesser Goldfinches in the fountain today. #Birdphotography #CAbirds #birds #WildbirdsofMastodon #Keepcatsinside #birdsarentreal
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Only one migratory Rufous #Hummingbird remains today, but he's accommodating. Soon he'll be off, continuing southward for winter in Mexico. #CAbirds #birdphotography
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#Hummingbird bonanza in #NevadaCountyCA this morning! Maybe #Hilary grounded them overnight? At least 5 Rufous and 10 or more Anna's. I suspended my personal rule against feeder photos bc, in the rain, they weren't visiting flowers, and I was really enjoying their interactions. And it's my birthday 🥳. The Rufous were feisty, as usual, but the Anna's were giving it back pretty well (even if it took two of them to one Rufous 😄). Here's a gallery. Enjoy! (Click to see the full pic) #CAbirds