tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38748773668038221622024-03-05T02:38:23.615-08:00North Carolina Photographic Big Year 2016Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-5054669557995439562016-12-26T13:13:00.000-08:002016-12-26T13:13:13.595-08:00Moving (17-26Dec2016)Hello birders, fellow nerds and friends. First let me link you the blog where I will moving all my activity in the new year 2017: <a href="http://photographicbirdlistomania.blogspot.com/">Photographicbirdlistomania.blogspot.com</a><br />
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That's right, I am moving my blogging activity, not my physical abode. For the recent past I have been using that address to add a life list of birds, linked in taxonomic order on the side bar. However, moving forward I will keep that format and add my regular blog entries so it will be a mix of the two. I don't plan on doing another North Carolina state big year next year so I can focus on maybe some local lists and also on some travels abroad... In fact, I am starting 2017 out with a bang and headed to Cuba on 29Dec2016. Look for that entry on the new blog address around the 10Jan2017. <br />
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Today's entry here is a final entry for 2016. It was a good year in North Carolina (from a strictly birding perspective) and although I ended the year with one less on my year list in eBird (330 vs 331 in 2015), I ended up with more on my photographed list (322 vs 321 in 2015). Yes I know, too many parentheses. In the final stretch I knew I wasn't going to beat any state record so I eased back on the throttle and focused on work and family. I could have easily picked up a Iceland Gull, Long-tailed Duck and Snow Buntings with a long drive but I just didn't have the desire. <br />
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Here are some photos I took locally over the past week. I tried to get the above birds locally and even paddled out to Mason Inlet jetty a couple times but no dice.<br />
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Bonaparte's Gull - Mason Inlet<br />
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Belted Kingfisher - Basin Trail<br />
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Baltimore Oriole - Basin Trail.<br />
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Golden-crowned Kinglet - Basin Trail<br />
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet<br />
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Piping Plover - Mason Inlet<br />
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Female Common Goldeneye - Ft Fisher Aquarium pond.<br />
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Palm Warbler - Ft. Fisher rocks.<br />
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Hooded Merganser - Ft Fisher Aquarium pond.<br />
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Blue-headed Vireo - also at the aquarium pond.<br />
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Black-and-white Warbler - apparently nuthatches are not the only ones that can climb upside down.<br />
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Lesser Yellowlegs - Ft. Fisher Basin Trail.<br />
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I don't want to end the year and this blog on a bad picture of a bunch of Yellowlegs. So here are a few pics from the past three years as a kind of highlight reel.<br />
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2014 was my first attempt at a NC big year and I was still learning. I had an awful camera so none of the photos were worth keeping with the exception of my best bird of the year and maybe my life:<br />
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Yellow-nosed Albatross<br />
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In 2015 my camera still sucked but I was getting better at using it and better at finding and getting close to birds.<br />
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Arctic Tern found on Topsail Beach during a survey I was helping with.<br />
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South Polar Skua on a Patterson Pelagic.<br />
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A Chuck-will's-widow that we found with an egg. Sam C ended up seeing the young chick later.<br />
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This Limpkin was found in Catawba County by someone else and I had a kayaking adventure to find it. The best finds usually involved a little extra work.<br />
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The Gray-cheeked Thrush Program at Brian P's house is always a hoot.<br />
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My last real good bird in 2015 was the Burrowing Owl at Masonboro Inlet. Although I did not find it originally, I felt like it was my bird because I later re-found it in 2016 and regularly checked up on it leaving updates on the listserv.<br />
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2016 started out with a huge bang and 2 very good birds for NC so I figured it would be a good year.<br />
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Trumpeter Swan at Mattamuskeet<br />
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Swainson's Hawk at Alligator NWR.<br />
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Common Goldeneye in Raleigh<br />
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Around this time my new lens was allowing me to get better photos.<br />
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Glaucous Gull on a Brian P Pelagic.<br />
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Northern Fulmar<br />
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Louisiana Waterthrush<br />
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Yellow-crowned Night-heron at Burnt Mill Creek in Wilmington.<br />
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This MEGA rarity Little Egret was far away and the photo suffered but it deserves an honorable mention.<br />
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Mountain Plover at Ophelia Inlet.<br />
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Eastern Screech Owl at Carolina Beach SP.<br />
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Golden-winged Warbler at Rich Mountain.<br />
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I found 4 Black-billed Cuckoos this year. When it rains it pours.<br />
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Snowy Plover at Rich Inlet<br />
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Fort Fisher.<br />
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Franklin's Gull at Wrightsville Beach.<br />
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Reddish Egret at Shackleford.<br />
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Hurricane Matthew was a bit of a dud here but I did see a bunch of pelagic terns and this Sooty was cool to see up close. I think he made it although I can't be sure.<br />
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This Bar-tailed Godwit at Shackleford Banks was a good one.<br />
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Merlin at Fort Fisher. <br />
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Anyhow you get the idea. I hope 2017 has some good birds in store and I hope to see you out the field. Don't forget to visit my other blog in the New Year. Happy Holidays.<br />
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<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-69906224703768745812016-12-22T17:26:00.000-08:002016-12-22T17:26:29.832-08:00Costa Rica Installment #5 - La Paz Waterfall Gardens (28-29Nov2016)The grande finale of this awesome trip was to the La Paz Waterfall Gardens and the Peace Lodge. We figured it would be nice to be pampered the final night and that way we would be within 45 minutes drive of the airport for our late morning flight. For those of you that have never been, La Paz Waterfall Gardens is a beautiful tourist destination with waterfalls, hiking, butterfly garden, hummingbird garden and what I guess is a zoo although the exhibits seem to hold animals that are much more content than the ones I have seen in most zoos.<br />
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The Peace Lodge is a group of casitas on the premises of the Gardens. It is very plush and a little over the top but nice none the less. The bed is a big four poster with hanging silk drapes and the shower is a stone cave with a waterfall instead of a shower head. There was a hot tub on the porch but we favored the big heated pool with waterfalls in the common area. The boys loved it and so did Melissa, so that was nice. <br />
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Of course there was birds too....<br />
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Common Chlorospingus<br />
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Buff-throated Saltator<br />
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Common Chlorospingus<br />
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The following Butterflies were in the covered butterfly house so I am not attempting to ID them as they won't count on my life list. However, they are beautiful and deserve at least some mention.<br />
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This one seemed to like Melissa's bright shirt.<br />
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On the first day there I spent a ton of time hunkered under some shelter in the hummingbird garden while it rained...<br />
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Violet Sabrewing<br />
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Black-bellied Hummingbird<br />
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Coppery-headed Emerald<br />
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White-bellied Mountain-gem<br />
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Black-bellied Hummingbird<br />
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Green-crowned Brilliant<br />
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Magnificent Hummingbird<br />
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Violet Sabrewing<br />
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Brown Violetear - I only saw a few of these.<br />
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Purple-throated Mountain-gem female or juvenile.<br />
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Female Sabrewing<br />
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I only saw a Green Thorntail fleetingly a couple times.<br />
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My brother Raf found this Torrent Tyrannulet while hiking with his family and was nice enough to show me the way.<br />
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Brown Violetear<br />
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In the morning first thing we spotted some birds on the trails that were difficult to get in decent light.<br />
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Tawny-throated Leaftosser<br />
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This Nightingale Thrush could have been one of two species and my photo is not good enough to know for sure.<br />
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Tawny-throated Leaftosser again.<br />
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Chestnut-capped Brush-finch<br />
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Prong-billed Barbet<br />
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Olivaceous Woodcreeper<br />
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Not sure but I think another Collared Trogon. Could be the Orange-bellied too.<br />
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I believe this is a Ruddy Treerunner.<br />
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Gray-breasted Wood-wren<br />
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Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush<br />
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Oh and there was a frog house too...<br />
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I think this was the Jumping Tree Frog or at least that is what the guy showing us around said.<br />
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The famous Red-eyed Tree Frog<br />
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This one I think is the Tiger-legged Tree Frog.<br />
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Grrr, I forget this species but they were mating.<br />
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Squirrel Cuckoo<br />
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Green Thorntail<br />
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Coppery-headed Emerald<br />
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Baltimore Oriole<br />
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Black-cowled Oriole<br />
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Buff-throated Saltator<br />
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I hope to make it back to Costa Rica again soon. What an awesome place. Pure Vida.<br />
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<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-30546116348741317422016-12-18T15:10:00.001-08:002016-12-18T15:10:47.034-08:00Beantown and Gloucester (13-14Dec2016)Boston is one of North America's great cities. Such rich history, great food, interesting accents, world class marathon and the birding is fantastic too. I was there this week for a work trip and brought my camera just in case I was able to get some time to myself. On Tuesday my meetings ended just before 3pm. With only an hour of light left I searched my iPhone for some green space and saw a park called Castle Island on the South side of Boston. Quickly changing out of my monkey suit and picking up my camera from my hotel room I jumped in a cab and was at Castle Island by 3:25pm. Castle Island is an old fort overlooking the waterfront and there were waterbirds everywhere. By 3:45 I was already on a rarity!<br />
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Common Goldeneye<br />
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Barrow's Goldeneye!!! Not a mega but also not an everyday bird up there.<br />
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Nice comparison between Common on left and Barrow's on right.<br />
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Common Eiders - they seems to be munching on whole mussels.<br />
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Two males and a female.<br />
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Wednesday morning was reserved for a meeting that never materialized so I was free to bird in between some teleconferences and before my afternoon flight. I knew there were a couple code 4 rarities in Massachusetts so I made chase. First target was a Pink-footed Goose just about 30-40 minutes North of Boston. It couldn't have been easier.<br />
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Obviously different bird in the Canada flock.<br />
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Pink-footed Goose!<br />
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My next target was a King Eider recently seen at Crane Island. No luck on that one but it was a nice beach with some good winter birds.<br />
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White-winged Scoter<br />
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Snow Buntings in the parking lot which resembled arctic tundra. They felt right at home.<br />
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Snow Bunting<br />
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Next target was a Northern Shrike at Eastern Point in Gloucester. Beautiful spot but another dip. When I asked my brother about Gloucester he mentioned something about a crystal meth epidemic but maybe I just missed that part of town. It was a really pretty town from my perspective.<br />
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American Black Ducks<br />
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Red-tailed Hawk<br />
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Last stop was at Halibut Point State Park near Rockport. Another stab at a King Eider failed but again some good birds anyway.<br />
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Common Eider - adult male<br />
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Common Eider - immature male.<br />
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Harlequin Ducks<br />
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A great trip and I can't wait until I get another chance to look for King Eider, Northern Shrike and Tufted Duck.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-21250245176701314572016-12-17T16:11:00.000-08:002016-12-17T16:11:05.240-08:00Costa Rica Installment #4 - Sarapiqui (27-28Nov2016)Our last destination for the trip was the Caribbean Lowlands and specifically Sarapiqui. This area includes legendary birding spots like La Selva and Selva Verde. We ended up leaving early because record flooding was raising the Sarapiqui River to unsafe levels. However, I managed to fit in some birds in the rain.<br />
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White-collared Manakin - none of the Manakins cooperated during this trip. The horrible weather and dark jungle canopy made it tough.<br />
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Band-tailed Barbthroat - I ended up getting better pics but I liked this one because it shows both diagnostic marks in the band-tail and the barb throat.<br />
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Bay Wren - wrens in the jungle are loud but hard to find and even harder to photograph.<br />
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Red-throated Ant-tanager - the platform feeder at Selva Verde Lodge was kind of gross. It looked as though they never clean it. I will have to get a better photo of this species some other day.<br />
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White-collared Manakin female.<br />
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Ringed Kingfisher - I spent quite a bit of time looking for Sungrebe in the river beds next to the lodge. A local guide told me to be careful because of flash floods can fill the river up very fast. I did not believe him and kept looking but I never found one. The next day after heavy rains all night I woke to the river completely full and almost cresting the high banks. The spot where I took these Kingfisher shots was completely under water. Some of the locals were saying that the nearby town was flooding badly and many people would be forced out of their homes.<br />
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Bare-throated Tiger-heron.<br />
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Black-Mandibled Toucan<br />
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Tropical Kingbird<br />
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Bare-throated Tiger-heron juvenile.<br />
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker......errr I mean Pale-billed Woodpecker. <br />
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Band-tailed Barbthroat<br />
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Plumed Basilisk<br />
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Gray Hawk<br />
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"Blue Jeans" poison dart frog next to the pool.<br />
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In the afternoon on the first full day in Sarapiqui we went to La Selva which is a biologic reserve within the Braulio Carillo National Park that is run as a consortium of universities including Duke. The only way to be able to walk around inside the park in this area is to get a guide, so we all pitched in and got a wonderful guide. I love Ticas and Ticos. The Costa Rican people are some of the nicest people on the planet. That being said, I was the one that found the bird of the day at least for me...<br />
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King Vulture!!!<br />
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If I had not seen the adult I would probably not have known this one was a juvenile King Vulture.<br />
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Right before or after we saw these vultures, I had an experience which I never wish to repeat. My older brother is a bit of a jokester so when I felt some weird feathery sensation on my inner thigh I thought maybe my brother was tickling me with something but I then quickly realized it was not him It was a critter crawling up my crotch!! I did a crazy dance hoping it would fall down my shorts and it worked, a GIANT Wolf Spider dropped onto the path. But that was not the end of it! It proceeded to chase me! Never have I ever seen something like this. It ran a good 15 feet after me and I ran screaming like a baby. Finally it decided to go a different trajectory and I lost it. Now you may think I am being melodramatic, but all of the other 10 people there witnessed the whole thing and confirmed it was one of the weirdest things they have seen and that the spider was HUGE. The guide was chuckling but she also confirmed that was the first time she ever saw a spider be so aggressive.<br />
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Broad-billed Motmot<br />
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White-collared Manakin<br />
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Gartered Trogon<br />
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I think this is a Cocoa Woodcreeper<br />
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Northern Barred Woodcreeper<br />
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Rufous Motmot - these bad boys make huge earthen dens on the sides of the trails. I should have taken a picture. I need to start taking more pics of things other than birds.<br />
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Spider Monkey<br />
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In the primary forest section of the trail we ran into some cool birds but it was so dark that my camera was not cooperating.<br />
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Olive-backed Quail-dove<br />
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Another Broad-billed Motmot<br />
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Boat-billed Flycatcher<br />
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Like a Kiskadee but with a bigger bill and different call.<br />
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Ruddy Ground-dove<br />
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Red-capped Manakin<br />
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Orange-billed Sparrow<br />
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Variable Seedeater.<br />
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Since we were bailing on Sarapiqui one day early due to heavy rain and flooding we decided to spend our last day at La Paz Waterfall Gardens and pamper ourselves with an overnight stay at the Peace Lodge. Pictures from stay will be in my next and final installment to be posted in a couple days.<br />
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Pura Vida.<br />
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<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-14860356687311331572016-12-16T03:48:00.003-08:002016-12-16T06:53:46.891-08:00Costa Rica Installment #3 - Mirador La Cascada - Cinchona (26Nov2016)On the way from Arenal to Sarapiqui, we took a slight detour to check out what I thought was the highlight of the trip. The town of Cinchona which is situated in an incredible gorge just a couple kilometers from the La Paz Waterfall Gardens, was devastated by an earthquake in 2009. 34 people died. Now they have moved the town and it is called Nueva Cinchona. However, near the old Cinchona is a small Mirador or Soda overlooking an incredible waterfall. <br />
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The porch at this Mirador is precariously perched over the gorge and lined with hummingbird feeders and a platform fruit feeder. As if that is not enough, they had some of the most authentic and delicious food I had all trip. Basically they bring you into the open air kitchen and have you point at all the dishes you want to try and heap it onto your plate. The stewed chicken dish was out of this world and although the Tamale was a bit weird, it was the real deal wrapped in a banana leaf. <br />
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Green-crowned Brilliant<br />
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Silver-throated Tanager<br />
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When the light hits a male Green-crowned Brilliant just right, it looking like it has a cartoonish smile.<br />
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Green Hermit - during the trip I was thinking I was seeing some Long-billed Hermits, but the photos all appear to be Green Hermits.<br />
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Rufous-tailed Hummingbird<br />
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Green Hermit<br />
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Kind of looks like Gonzo from Sesame Street.<br />
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Emerald Toucanet - probably the best bird of the trip.<br />
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My new screen-saver.<br />
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Coppery-headed Emeralds can be very tricky and can look like a bunch of other species when they turn their heads a certain way.<br />
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I was on the fence about this one, but probably just a Rufous-tailed Hummingbird.<br />
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Silver-throated Tanager<br />
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Baltimore Oriole<br />
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Prong-billed Barbet<br />
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Coppery-headed Emerald<br />
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Clay-colored Thrush<br />
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White-bellied Mountain-gem<br />
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Passerini's Tanager female<br />
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Passerini's Tanager male<br />
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Rufous-tailed HB<br />
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Summer Tanager<br />
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Coppery-headed Emerald<br />
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Blue-gray Tanager<br />
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Silver-throated Tanager<br />
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Palm Tanager<br />
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Violet Sabrewing<br />
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Green-crowned Brilliant<br />
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Violet Sabrewing<br />
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Collared Trogon<br />
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Grayish Saltator<br />
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The family eventually wanted to leave. I would stayed all day. I shall return......<br />
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Next I convinced my family to stop really quickly at Dave's Nature Pavilion in La Virgen. The specialty here was White-necked Jacobin.<br />
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White-necked Jacobin - the light was really failing at this point, it was almost sunset.<br />
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Rufous-tailed HB - I love how they set up some Heliconias which they put some nectar in.<br />
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Scaly-breasted HB<br />
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Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer - the other specialty here. Notice the red feet.<br />
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After the Nature Pavilion we headed a little down the road to our next destination, Selva Verde Lodge in Sarapiqui. Coming soon, installment #4.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-64406499644376344082016-12-11T12:51:00.003-08:002016-12-11T12:51:21.249-08:00Costa Rica Installment 2 - Arenal (23-26Nov2016)Arenal..... What can I say that would adequately describe this amazing place? Well nothing, so I will show you some pics instead.<br />
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Driving in Costa Rica is not a problem for me. The countryside is so beautiful that I actually enjoy it. That being said, it was raining on our way from Poas to Arenal. A little past Cinchona which was the site of a bad earthquake years ago which completely wiped the town out, there was a bad mudslide in the road so we decided to make a beeline to Arenal and not make any stops which was tough considering all the bird life on the sides of the road.<br />
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Yellow-throated Toucan, also known as Chestnut-mandibled and also known as Black-mandibled Toucan. This was one of the only stops we made.<br />
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After picking up some supplies in La Fortuna we headed up the country road to the Arenal Observatory Lodge. <br />
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This Gray-headed Chachalaca flew by the car and we did not stop as we reasoned that we would see a ton throughout the trip. This ended up being the only one.... Let this be a lesson to you. If you see a bird you want to see, stop and look at it. Birding with my family in the car is not easy.<br />
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White Hawk - what a great bird. After seeing this in the first 5 minutes on the entrance road, we knew that over the next several days we would be drowning in lifers.<br />
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The light was horrible, remember that Hurricane Otto was moving in. We were about to experience the first hurricane to ever make landfall in Costa Rica.<br />
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While the ladies checked in I made my way over to the platform feeders. Geri-birding at it's best.<br />
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Red-legged Honeycreeper - this bird almost sent me into catatonic shock. <br />
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Great Curassow - so close to Thanksgiving, I wondered what this guy tastes like. By the way, when I asked someone if they eat Curassows, they said hunting is prohibited in Costa Rica. The whole of Costa Rica...... My kind of country. No hunting and therefore almost no guns, no military, almost completely energy neutral, great food, friendly people, surfing, mountains..... Why everyone doesn't move here is mind-boggling to me. Mark my words, when my kids are in college, I am moving here.<br />
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Male Great Curassow<br />
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Just when you think Red-legged Honeycreepers could not be more crippling, they show you their wings.<br />
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Great Kiskadees were everywhere...<br />
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Common Tody-flycatcher<br />
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Female Passerini's Tanager - the males are so crippling that my camera sensor refused to take a decent picture. Not only was my mind blown, but my crusher was also struggling to process the color.<br />
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Gray-headed Flycatcher - similar looking to a Social, but the head is gray instead of black and white.<br />
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Chestnut-sided Warbler - There were plenty of North American migrants too.<br />
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Variable Seedeater<br />
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Gray-crowned Yellowthroat<br />
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Golden-winged Warbler - I like to think maybe I saw this guy in Wilmington during migration this fall.<br />
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Good luck trying to ID empidonax flycatchers when on wintering grounds. My guess is this is a Traill's complex bird (Willow/Alder).<br />
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Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds are the most common HBs in Costa Rica and probably one of the most gregarious. They are constantly chasing each other and other HBs.<br />
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Passerini's Tanager - I am really upset at myself for not taking a better picture of a male Passerini's Tanager. The problem was they were everywhere and so I kept passing them up for other potentially new birds and then the trip was over and I had zero decent pics of them. There is something about the colors on this bird that my camera sensor did not like and all the photos came out bad. The horrible lighting didn't help.<br />
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Olive-backed Euphonia<br />
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Stripe-throated Hermit - I don't think this species ever visits feeders and it also tends to only feed deeper in the jungle so I was lucky to see this one next to a fence. I did see a few throughout the trip but never for more than a second and never allowing a decent camera shot.<br />
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Great Kiskadees were more obliging.<br />
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They would catch an insect and then bash the insect against the fence to stun or kill it before eating.<br />
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Keel-billed Toucan - toucans tended to stay up high and we almost had no sunny days so all the shots required me to crank up my AV settings really high and hope for the best. <br />
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It was hard but I finally made it to Phil's Villa where we stayed the next 3 nights. It was a really plush place off on it's own. Close enough to make it a short walk to the rest of the lodge but far enough to feel secluded. The view was insane when it wasn't clouded over which was almost the whole time. The volcano was so close that even though you couldn't see it most of the time, you could FEEL it. The palpable sense of imminent danger and ridiculous beauty combined to make me feel alive. Check out the website here for pics of the property that will do more justice than mine.<br />
https://www.arenalobservatorylodge.com/rooms/phils-villa<br />
The only negative, the ceilings were high and there was no rugs or anything on the walls to dampen noise so when the 4 cousins were playing it was a veritable cacophony. <br />
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A true Bird of Paradise on the swinging bridge that connects the main Lodge to the rooms.<br />
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Luke looking nervous<br />
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During the rain, which was constant, we did some quality geri-birding from the balcony overlooking the platform feeders.<br />
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Can you name all the species in this pic? RL Honeycreepers, Green Honeycreepers, Passerini's Tanager, Golden-hooded Tanager, Palm Tanager, Emerald Tanager and Baltimore Oriole.<br />
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Emerald Tanager with a couple honeycreepers.<br />
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Montezuma Oropendola - a very strange bird which also did not cooperate with my camera's sensor even when the light was good. They have high hanging nests which resemble a Baltimore Oriole's nest but on a much larger scale.<br />
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This Scarlet-thighed Dacnis was a brief sighting and I never saw another. In hindsight I would have made a better effort to crush it but I thought it was going to be plentiful. I need to study up on the less common birds next time so I know where to focus my crushing efforts.<br />
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It's hard not photographing Great Curassows even when you see them every day.<br />
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Blue-gray Tanagers are more common and I crushed one properly later in the trip.<br />
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Black-striped Sparrow<br />
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Green Honeycreeper male<br />
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Violet-headed Hummingbird - I didn't notice any hummingbird feeders at Arenal which is a bit of a moldy swizz but there was plenty of Lantana and Porterweed which is really more of a pretty flower than a weed.<br />
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Buff-rumped Warbler<br />
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Ochre-bellied Flycatcher on nest.<br />
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Yellow-faced Grassquit<br />
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Green Kingfisher<br />
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Tufted Flycatcher<br />
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Gray Hawk - it was really raining at this point and I only took the camera out of my jacket when I could find a shelter or large tree to get under.<br />
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White Hawk<br />
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Red-lored Parrot<br />
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Purple-crowned Fairy female<br />
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Buff-rumped Warbler<br />
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Great Kiskadee<br />
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Band-backed Wren - this was the adult and he was molting his tail. I only kept the photo because it was diagnostic with the spotting on the breast.<br />
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The juvenile Band-backed Wren was very confusing and I would have been stuck if I had not seen the adult. You can tell its a juvenile by the grumpy look it has. Juvenile birds have pliable gapes (corner of beak) that tends to make them look old and grumpy.<br />
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Poor birds, they were all molting something fierce, this one's tail looked so ratty. <br />
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Gartered Trogon<br />
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We had tons of swifts and swallows flying way up high but the horrible backlighting made it very difficult to ID any of them. The really big ones were probably mostly White-collared Swifts.<br />
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This heavily cropped and lightened photo helps to be able to just make out the white collar.<br />
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This is what a Red-eyed Treefrog looks like when its sleeping in the day time. In the night time they bloom into a ridiculously colorful frog.<br />
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Brilliant Forest Frog<br />
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Collared Aracari<br />
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A couple of North American migrants - Tennessee Warbler and Baltimore Oriole.<br />
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Brown Jay<br />
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Montezuma Oropendola<br />
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Tennessee Warbler<br />
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Palm Tanager<br />
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Lineated Woodpecker - I never did get an unobstructed view.<br />
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So the Costa Rican guide I was standing next to (not my guide) called this a Yellow-rumped Warbler and said it was rare for Arenal. I believe it is actually a Cape May which is also rare. Maybe he was looking at another bird. This one had extensive yellow in tertials and the rump was more olive than yellow.<br />
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Two-barred Flasher<br />
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Gray-capped Flycatcher<br />
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Rufous-tailed Hummingbird<br />
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Collared Aracari<br />
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Tropical Kingbird<br />
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I believe this is a False Postman, I had no idea there were so many different species of butterflies in Costa Rica, it is very difficult to find the correct ID.<br />
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Golden-hooded Tanager<br />
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Brown Jay<br />
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Male Great Curassow<br />
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Male and female Red-legged Honeycreepers<br />
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I tried my best to get some decent pics on natural perches. The feeder shots are definitely not ideal.<br />
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Shining Honeycreeper and Golden-hooded Tanager<br />
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Shining Honeycreeper is apparently fairly uncommon at Arenal. Easy to ID once you see the legs. This is a female.<br />
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Yellow-throated Euphonia - euphonias are fun to ID, there is a handful that look very similar but can be identified by keying in on some small difference.<br />
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I am not usually one for "combo" shots but this one was exceptional.<br />
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Another shot of the Cape May<br />
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Black-cheeked Woodpecker<br />
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Orange-chinned Parakeet<br />
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You can just make out the orange chin here.<br />
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Green Honeycreeper<br />
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On the last full day we took a hike down a jungle trail that was punishing and had very little birds. But finally just before we finished, we had two good birds in a clearing.<br />
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Rufous Mourner - apparently this species can only be told reliably from Rufous Piha by its call. We played both and it seemed to respond to Mourner. I showed a guide later and he agreed it was probably a Mourner based on habitat but he said it would be difficult to ID for sure.<br />
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Broad-billed Motmot<br />
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The tail sweeps back and forth like a metronome, so cool.<br />
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I think this may have been a Plumeleteer but was not able to confirm.<br />
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Patilla Clearwing<br />
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Unidentified Myiarchus flycatcher with strange pigment issues.<br />
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Long-tailed Tyrant - one of the coolest birds the whole trip.<br />
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Scaly-breasted Hummingbird - you can just barely make out the white edging on the outer tail feathers.<br />
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Southern Rough-winged Swallow<br />
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If the buffy colored throat did convince you, check out that light colored rump! <br />
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Tailed Cecropian - another butterfly that took me forever to ID.<br />
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Another view of the Scaly-breasted HB.<br />
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Common Tody-flycatcher<br />
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Yellow-faced Grassquit<br />
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Short-tailed Hawk<br />
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Dusky-capped Flycatcher<br />
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My sister in law treated us to a half day at Tabacon Spa and Resort to bathe in the thermal hot springs and have a nice lunch. I didn't find any birds there but it was kind of nice to put the camera down for a bit and just relax. It's hard being a birder.<br />
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These Plumed Basilisks loved the hot springs. This was a female or immature.<br />
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The male.<br />
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Also known as the Jesus Lizard for it's amazing ability of running across water.<br />
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Howler Monkeys - not as prevalent as they are in Mal Pais but we did find a couple groups.<br />
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I believe this is a Cane Toad.<br />
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Yellow Treefrog?<br />
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Red-eyed Treefrog<br />
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Brilliant Forest Frog<br />
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Hourglass Frog?<br />
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We tried spotlighting and using flash on Common Paraques and this was the best shot I got.<br />
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Last morning we had a couple hours to say goodbye before we headed to our next destination at Sarapiqui on the Caribbean slope. By the way, the hurricane was never bad for us. The rain was inconvenient and constant but the wind never got bad. Only 40 miles North a bunch of Ticos got flooded out and a handful died so it was no joke but we were lucky.<br />
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Crested Guan<br />
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Rufous-tailed Hummingbird<br />
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Brown-hooded Parrot<br />
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Pale-billed Woodpecker<br />
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Crimson-collared Tanager<br />
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Banded Owl-butterfly<br />
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Great Curassow chick.<br />
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I agonized hours over this one but I believe it is an Emerald-patched Cattleheart.<br />
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The white edging in the scalloping is what convinced me.<br />
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Masked Tityra<br />
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Cinnamon Becard<br />
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Hmm, this was probably a Tropical Kingbird but maybe could be a Western. The yellow was not intense past the lower breast.<br />
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This Variegated Squirrel was munching away on leaves as I openly wept. I hope I am able to come back to Arenal soon. Still plenty of species for me to find. I think the rainy weather kept our numbers way down but maybe that is a good thing as I almost had a heart attack as it was. Some expert local entered a checklist for the day after we left Costa Rica (Christmas count?) for 143 species in one day!! We only had 170 for the whole trip. That being said, the experts can rattle off dozens of species at dawn based on songs alone. We IDed all ours ourselves on visual confirmation only.<br />
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I am traveling for work this week so Installment 3 of my Costa Rica trip will have to wait until next weekend. I hope my dedicated blog readers will be able to cope.<br />
<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-64116479363841060122016-12-09T15:21:00.000-08:002016-12-09T15:21:45.530-08:00Snow Geese, Eider and a Coyote (04-09Dec2016)Getting back from Costa Rica I was hit with about 3 million emails and constant teleconferences but I was still able to get away a couple times to look at some already reported birds.<br />
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Snow Geese have been seen several times at Veteran's Park in Wilmington this past week so I had to go check it out. This was a "Blue" morph Snow Goose with a couple Canadas.<br />
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When I first saw this combo the white goose looked smaller and it made me think of Ross's but it was also a Snow.<br />
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I love the detail on this bad boy.<br />
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Later in the week Sam C posted that Dr. P found a Common Eider at Johnny Mercer's Pier, so off I went in between TCs.<br />
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Common Eider - Chocolatey brown goodness.<br />
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Very obliging bird. It's still hanging out as of today.<br />
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This morning I went to Fort Fisher and found my own Blue phase Snow Geese.<br />
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As I was checking them out, a large canine ran out across the field towards them! I initially thought someone let their dog out, but this was not a domestic dog....<br />
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Coyote! I have seen them at Ft. Fisher before but usually just a glimpse as they tend to be very shy.<br />
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This one was very red looking and I have to wonder if the Red Wolves of Alligator NWR have spread their genes to some of the NC Coyotes.<br />
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The Snow Geese easily flew away from the Coyote and just continued to feed as the encounter was just usual business.<br />
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I plan on adding Costa Rica installment 2 tomorrow. I have so many pictures it has been taking every minute of my free time going through them and weeding out the bad ones.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-80589478658806096722016-12-03T06:08:00.000-08:002016-12-03T15:04:33.143-08:00Costa Rica Installment 1 - Return to Poas (19-23Nov2016)We started out our Thanksgiving vacation visiting an old friend in Florida where we used to live 10 years ago in Lake Worth. This was convenient as it allowed us to switch to a more reasonable flight on Jet Blue out of FLL. The flights out of NC going to Costa Rica were not cheap. So what does a birder do when in South Florida with a day and a half to kill? Look for Snail Kites of course. Snail Kites are more prevalent a little further North in the I-4 corridor and I had limited time, so I spent some time looking in the Loxahatchee NWR and adjacent Corbett Wildlife Management Area. Spoiler Alert - I only saw one distant Snail Kite and got no pictures so I didn't even count it on my list. I should get one in Cuba later. If you thought the gun/hunting culture in NC was scary, go to Corbett WMA and take a drive on the loop. It looked like a cross between Star Wars on Endor (think large raised At-At Walkers on wheels criss-crossing the swampy terrain) and Beverly Hill Billies. No wonder I couldn't find any birds, they probably were all shot or crushed or simply scared out of the WMA. I saw way more "hunters" than wildlife. I did find a couple dead Coral Snakes. The raised hunting vehicles affectionately called "Critter Gitters" because they help you git the critters, were everywhere. If you have never seen one of these, Google it, they are HUGE. I know, I should have taken a picture, but I was afraid for my life. The majority of hunters sitting on top of these were loud, waving confederate flags and many were drunk. It's amazing what is allowed in our "Wildlife Management Areas". They should just call it what it is, a Wildlife Exterminating Zone or WEZ. I am not sure how these folks could afford these rigs, they looked expensive. Ok, off my soap box and on to some pictures....<br />
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White Peacock at Loxahatchee NWR. The NWR I visited was not overrun with hunters.<br />
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Fly-by Sharp-shinned Hawk<br />
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Gray-headed Swamphens were everywhere in Loxahatchee.<br />
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American Alligator - I saw a dude fishing waist deep right near this gator. I asked him if he was afraid and he said no that the gators were more afraid of him. Okay, whatever you say but I think I will stay on dry land.<br />
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Roseate Spoonbill<br />
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Upon arrival in San Jose, CR we spent the obligatory 2 hours working on the car rental and while my wife took care of the paper work I picked up a lifer.<br />
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Crimson-fronted Parakeet as seen from the Budget Rental Car lot!<br />
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It did not take long to make it up the winding road to our first destination for the next couple days, Altura Lodge just outside the Poas Volcano National Park perimeter. The following photos are either from the Lodge property, or just up the road where a nice country dirt road bordered some nice montane jungle habitat. All the trees were covered in bromeliads and epiphytes and birds too.<br />
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Rufous-naped Sparrows were everywhere and especially loved the gigantic Hydrangeas that were also everywhere. <br />
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Black-and-yellow Silky Flycatcher<br />
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Wilson's Warblers were the most common North American migrant and many spend the winter in CR.<br />
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I could be wrong on this one, but I think it is a female Scintillant Hummingbird. My ID is based on the apparent lack of any green central tail feathers and a fairly slim black sub-terminal band on the tail which distinguishes it from a Volcano HB which also hangs out in Poas. Unfortunately I never did see any good male Scintillant specimen which would clinch it. The male Scintillants have a more Orange-red gorget versus Purple-red on Volcano HBs of the Poas region (other Volcano HBs can have a dark purple gorget - for example at Barva Volcano).<br />
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Yellow-thighed Finch - the parking lot at Poas Volcano was hopping with birds... It was hard to follow the family up to the crater.<br />
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Large-footed Finch - on previous trips I had only seen these deep in the forest trails in bad light, so this was a treat. I had one of them jump on my shoe!!! I kept having to back away to take pictures with my fixed 400mm lens.<br />
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Sooty-capped Chlorospingus - very common at Poas and it behaves much like a House Sparrow looking for tourist crumbs at the picnic tables.<br />
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Unfortunately the best picture I managed of the Flame-throated Warbler. Fortunately that gives me reason to go back in the future. I must crush one of these.<br />
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Some pretty large feet on this Finch no?<br />
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Sooty Thrush - I think these used to be called Robins, but now they are Thrushes.<br />
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This is the Large-footed Finch that jumped on my shoe and kept following me when I backed up to crush him (with my camera, not my shoe). In a later installment you will hear about another critter that also followed me relentlessly.<br />
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Variegated Squirrel<br />
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Much more polite and cute than our Gray Squirrels.<br />
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Spangle-cheeked Tanager - On the trails proper we ran into a couple mixed flocks but photography was tough as it always is in the thick understory with backlit cloudy conditions almost the whole trip. More on the weather later but it actually did cooperate on this first full day.<br />
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That is a berry in it's bill not some grotesque deformity.<br />
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Collared Redstart - true to form a very active warbler and hard to photograph.<br />
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Ruddy Treerunner speed blur.<br />
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Slaty Flowerpiercer - this bird makes it's living by piercing the base of flowers to get the nectar. A little destructive and probably the arch rival of the hummingbirds that depend on the flower to generate nectar the conventional way.<br />
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With a little help from Jeff P and the inter webs, I think I have narrowed this down to a Tracta Sister (Adelpha tracta). Jeff pointed me in the Adelpha direction and I found the tracta species by going through scores of pictures. Butterflies are hard....<br />
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Sooty-capped Chlorospingus<br />
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Just as we were about to leave the Poas parking lot, I spotted my main target. Fiery-throated Hummingbird.<br />
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This bad boy never perched and so my shots were all rear end shots but what an exquisite rear end. I know from past sightings that the "fiery" throat is very difficult to see in the thick forest understory. Sometimes these guys will head down the mountain and visit feeders but I have not had that luck yet.<br />
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A guide in Poas was nice enough to give us a hint of where to go for some hummers down the slope a bit. We did not use any guides as my older brother has an aversion to birding with guides but I did try and pick their brains when we ran into them. I like to support the locals but at the same time I agree with my brother that finding the birds on your own is more fun. So off to Freddo Fresas we went. This wonderful restaurant and the garden across the street is the perfect place to keep your family happy while you get in some good Geri-Birding. For the uninitiated, Geri-Birding is short for geriatric birding and is basically sitting next to a feeder and watching the birds without much exertion. It's a bit of a derogative term so I hesitate to use it, but it has a certain ring to it that works. <br />
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I have nothing against old people and in fact I plan on being old in the future. I seem to be getting there faster by the minute. By the way, if you go to Freddo Fresas, get the Chicharrones. Eating swine is one of my guilty pleasures. As Homer Simpson says, pigs are "Magical Animals". What other animal can produce things like Bacon, Pork Chops and Ham all on the same animal? But they are also so intelligent and cute, so I struggle with my addiction. I try to avoid eating pork from CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) but currently it is hard to determine. In Costa Rica most of the pigs I saw looked relatively happy and free ranging. Freddo Fresas is somewhere half way between Fraijanes and Poasito which are towns on the way up the volcano. Fresas are Strawberries which are sold everywhere up here and can give you an idea of the cooler temps up this mountain/volcano. Also sold are Lychees and an awesome type of Gooseberry which comes in a husk like a Tomatillo but is much more sweet and delicious.<br />
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Female Volcano Hummingbird. Birding is hard and sometimes does not make good sense. I got my presumed Scintillant up high and my Volcanos down lower which is actually the opposite of what the guidebooks say about these species. That may be a clue that I got my Scintillant ID wrong, but they are found in both places we went. The above photo is most certainly a Volcano HB based on the green central tail feathers which would be all rufous in a Scintillant.<br />
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Magenta-throated Woodstar - a specialty bird at this spot. Look for the little ones with the white patches up the side of the rump. <br />
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The recently split Lesser Violetear (the other end of the split is the Mexican Violetear).<br />
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Slaty Flowerpiercer again.<br />
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My Dad is not a big fan of me posting multiple pics of the same bird, but I believe some of my readers are serious birders and appreciate the different angles to better study the bird. If any of you are like me, you study other people's blogs before going on your own trips so you know what to expect. So unfortunately my father will have to suffer through some duplicates especially when the birds were so accommodating and offering crushes.<br />
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Mountain Elaenia - many of these at Freddo Fresas. Easily IDed by the yellowish edging in the tertials.<br />
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The aptly named Violetear.<br />
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A not so Magnificent Hummingbird - amazing what a little tilt in the head can do to improve this bird's appearance.<br />
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Magenta-throated Woodstar - if the white flank was not enough, look at the bottom border of the gorget. It is fairly neat and restricted. In the Volcano or Scintillant the gorget is more pointy like a Costa's Hummingbird. Easy to remember if you think the Volcano HB's gorget is volcano shaped.<br />
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The only Stripe-tailed Hummingbird I saw all trip. Easy ID based on the buff "shoulders".<br />
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You can almost see the striped tail here which is edged in white.<br />
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This pretty butterfly took forever to find online, but I think I have the ID. Montane Longwing in the Heliconius genus.<br />
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Purple-throated Mountain-gems are a real crowd pleaser but I knew I would see a ton later in the trip so I didn't take many pics which now I regret as this day had decent weather and lighting conditions. So beautiful.<br />
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A little more Magnificent Hummingbird. These are big boys, but just a tad smaller than the true beast of the area - Violet Sabrewings.<br />
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When they get pissed they flare out their "ears" which are really just part of the gorget.<br />
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Female or immature Purple-throated Mountain-gem.<br />
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Violetear<br />
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Volcano Hummingbird!!! Note the pointed gorget, green central tail feather and small bill excellent for probing dainty flowers like Lantana or Porterweed which is everywhere in the gardens of Costa Rica.<br />
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Volcano Hummingbird - note the lack of white patch on flank and the pointy gorget.<br />
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Clay-colored Thrush - the national bird of Costa Rica, picked for it's pretty song and ubiquitous presence. Note the yellow bill. Mountain Thrushes look similar but have a dark bill.<br />
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This Purple-throated Mountain-gem was captured by my father who was intending to bring it home to his hummingbird sanctuary in Baiting Hollow, NY. However, I convinced him to let it go free. I am kidding of course, he only put his hand there to show how tame these birds are and never actually touched it.<br />
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Back up the mountain before sunset I ran into some birds on the side of the road.<br />
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Slate-throated Redstart - my wife was busy talking to some dreamy expat Texan hotelier so I was left unmolested to take as many photos of this Redstart as I could. I thought to myself why can't there be more dreamy expat Texan hoteliers to keep my wife's attention when we take walks. You must understand, my wife simply hates stopping every 10 steps to look at a bird.<br />
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One more walk this time with my brother produced some more nice roadside birds. This one a Spot-crowned Woodcreeper. This is a higher elevation version of the Streak-headed Woodcreeper which I would later find in the Caribbean Lowlands.<br />
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I was a little surprised to find tons of Acorn Woodpeckers up there.<br />
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Next morning we took an early morning walk down our favorite mountain lane off the road that enters Poas Volcano.<br />
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Black-thighed Grosbeak.<br />
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He was probably using the grit much like a Crossbill does in NC to help digest tough seeds and fruits.<br />
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Golden-browed Chlorophonia - my brother got good pics the day before so he kept walking but I stayed with this bird to get good pics and that turned out to be a good decision.<br />
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What a looker!<br />
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Just as I was ogling this bird, a large all green backed bird with huge tail streamers streaked right across my field of vision at only 20-30 feet away. A Resplendent Quetzal!!!! To fast for a picture especially with my AV cranked up all the way but an awesome look none the less. Quetzals are fairly rare in the Poas range but they are around. I never ended up seeing another as we did not head into their traditional range but that's fine by me. I will save the best bird for last.<br />
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Extremely poor light Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher.<br />
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This was the only pair we saw all trip. You can kind of get a little idea of the coloring here. A cool bird which I am determined to crush some time in the future.<br />
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Band-tailed Pigeons were abundant.<br />
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Very sad that this is the only recognizable picture I got of a Mountain Thrush. This morning was very misty and raining off and on with horrible backlight.<br />
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Now for some non-bird pics taken by my wife.<br />
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At Altura Lodge my kids were tickled pink to luck out on getting this Whale Container as our accommodation. Super cool for novelty but the next night my wife made us change to the conventional rooms because the wind felt like it was going to topple the container at night and holes in the side were letting in bugs.<br />
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The inside of the Whale Container which was actually just as expensive as the much more luxurious suites. Sometimes you pay just for novelty.<br />
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The first full day we had awesome weather and the crater was clear which is rare for Poas. That night we learned that Costa Rica was going to be hit by the first ever hurricane to hit CR!!! Just our luck. We were kind of freaking out as things were predicted to be bad and we were scheduled to drive some pretty treacherous roads to Arenal Volcano the next day. All worked out in the end.<br />
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The immediate family unit. My brother's family and my parents were also there but getting a photo of everyone was actually very difficult.<br />
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This donkey was onsite at Altura Lodge and his bray was the loudest and funniest thing I have heard in a while.<br />
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The view of the Valley from Altura Lodge. What an awesome place!! Pure Vida for sure.<br />
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Next installment - The road to Arenal Volcano and the surroundings at Arenal Observatory Lodge. We stayed at Phil's Villa which was a truly awesome place with an unobscured (when not cloudy) view of the volcano and only a short walk to the lodge. Close enough but also far enough away that we felt we had the whole area to ourselves. There we hunkered down for a few days as Hurricane Otto did it's best to rain us out.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-85117500264825952902016-11-17T16:19:00.000-08:002016-11-17T16:19:01.580-08:00Three Wrens and a Fox (01-17Nov2016)Hello birders,<br />
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My posts are getting fewer and farther between as there is not much to get for my year effort anymore. That being said, my birding has not slowed down. I still get out as much as I can.<br />
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Snowy Egret - Most of my trips have been to Fort Fisher to try for things like Snow Bunting, Mottled Duck and Fox Sparrow. It's as close to a patch that I have gotten.<br />
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Northern Harrier - but I have made several trips to the RTP area for work on the past several weeks and was able to check out spots like Mid Pines (above picture), Mason Farm (below picture) and the Chapel Hill Arboretum.<br />
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Golden-crowned Kinglet<br />
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I love the Piedmont and would not mind moving up there to be close to the mountains and the coast. The people are usually share my world view more than the area which I live now. I have to admit I am devastated by the election and really frustrated with the path the country has selected. Although many things concern me I am particularly concerned about the environment. It scares the crap out of me that our President does not believe in climate change.<br />
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Savannah Sparrow at Fort Fisher<br />
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One of the days last week the waves were great but I had the kids with me and was relegated to only watching. The spot at Fort Fisher is a legendary spot that hardly ever breaks, but it was working that day.<br />
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When I saw these puddle ducks on the aquarium pond from a half mile away I was convinced that I finally had my Mottled Ducks. Upon closer inspection the huge bills gave them away as Shovelers.<br />
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This week I was back in RTP for work and had some time to look for Fox Sparrows at Mason Farm. I saw Mary S and chatted with her. She said last year on this date she had a Fox Sparrow at the Arboretum near the little Cabin in the Mountain Habitat area. So off I went and it did not take long before I ran into guess who? Foxy Lady!<br />
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Fox Sparrow - there were two of them right where Mary said.<br />
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Finally this morning I headed to my patch - Fort Fisher.<br />
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I can't remember the last time I had a Red-shouldered Hawk on the beach.<br />
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Sedge Wrens were very obliging today.<br />
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet<br />
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House Wrens were also hanging out chittering away.<br />
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Marsh Wren - In one bush I had a hat trick of Wrens - Sedge, Marsh and House.<br />
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Someone found a Snow Bunting at the Ft. Fisher monument over the weekend and I have checked several times since then with no luck.<br />
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Eastern Bluebird.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-8925884279263441592016-10-31T18:11:00.003-07:002016-10-31T18:11:50.964-07:00American Goodness (24-31Oct2016)We have many good birds in America. American White Pelican is a good bird. American Bitterns are nice too. I was tempted to go to the OBX this weekend to get my missing American White Pelican for my year list but I could not muster the fortitude necessary to drive 5 hours one way only to to it again later in the day. I figured I would see one sooner or later at Fort Fisher or at Davis Impoundment up near North River.<br />
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Have you ever used iNaturalist? What a cool app. I posted a picture of the below snake and someone had identified it in less than an hour.<br />
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The Fort Fisher Ferry parking lot has been really active.<br />
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Pine Warblers are shape changing birds that can morph into looking like over 20 species. This one was trying to morph into a Bay-breasted or something but I had him pegged.<br />
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Then he tried to morph into a Nashville and I just laughed at him. He would no longer trick me, or at least today.<br />
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Prairie Warbler<br />
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Painted Buntings can be the most ridiculously conspicuous birds, but they can also bee extremely camouflaged in female or juvenile plumage. Why more bird species have not adapted to have green feathers is strange.<br />
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White-eyed Vireos are frequently taken for granted. <br />
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Lone Blue-winged Teal - The aquarium pond has been pretty bleak lately, maybe due to the large Alligator. Or maybe it takes a decent flock to feel safe enough from the legions of hawks and falcons that have been hanging out.<br />
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Gulf Fritillary<br />
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Marsh Wren<br />
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If Turkey Vultures did not plunge their bald heads in the rotting cavities of dead animals, they would be more appreciated for what they are - graceful fliers with beautiful flight feathers.<br />
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Some Savannah Sparrows lack the diagnostic yellow lores.<br />
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Another Prairie Warbler<br />
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Keeping an eye on the skies. They are full of raptors.<br />
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This American Avocet has been hanging on the spit for the past week.<br />
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American Pipits are good birds which do not present good photographic targets very often. This bird was not about to change the trend.<br />
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This poor White-rumped Sandpiper was playing possum. Or maybe he was just beat.<br />
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A passing Peregrine had him wake up alright.<br />
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I don't see White-rumped SPs very often, but when I do, I prefer juvenile birds with plenty of color.<br />
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Sunday I took the early morning drive to join John, Martha, Jack and Marty at North River Farms.<br />
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Marty managed much better pics of this Coyote than I did.<br />
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The real target was Le Conte's Sparrow which is sometimes found at the farm in the right habitat. This year the habitat was limited and not ideal as the Coastal Federation is letting the farm grow back. This is not good for Le Conte's which is already very scarce in NC.<br />
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Marty called me over, he had a yellow headed sparrow and based on the habitat I was sure it was a Le Conte's. But here is the catch, if I had seen this bird on the beach or in the salt marsh, I would have called it a Nelson's Sparrow. It turns out it was actually a Nelson's. Bah humbug!<br />
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Skulky Nelson's Sparrow in the wrong habitat.<br />
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Belted Kingfisher<br />
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American Bittern<br />
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American Bittern x Chicken hybrid.<br />
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Of course we missed American White Pelican at Davis Impoundment.<br />
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Back in Wilmington I visited Fort Fisher on Halloween morning.<br />
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This adult Cooper's Hawk obviously was not reading the signs, or he just didn't give a shit.<br />
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Can you see it? A Peregrine Falcon was sitting on the channel marker way out next to the Ferry route. Jelmer from Chapel Hill pointed it out.<br />
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Out on Pelican Island something got them all stirred up and then I noticed there was some unusually large white birds in the middle of the bunch.<br />
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You can just make out 8 American White Pelicans in the middle of the frame just launching off the water surface.<br />
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Booyah! hmm..... Now what to get? Someone find something rare.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-82885620723802263212016-10-22T14:55:00.001-07:002016-10-22T14:55:28.352-07:00Merlins and Merlin Fodder (19-22Oct2016)Hello Birders,<br />
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Some good local birding has been had the past few days. If you are squeamish, you might want to navigate to some more tame blog about puppy dogs or something. <br />
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This poor Painted Bunting lives in constant fear of Merlins.<br />
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This Marbled Godwit is probably safe from Merlins, but Peregrines are happy to step in and pick up the Merlin slack.<br />
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Magnolia Warblers at Greenfield Lake fear Sharp-shinned Hawks.<br />
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Pileated Woodpecker at Greenfield.<br />
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You would think a Pileated tongue would not be so skinny but they are.<br />
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I have heard Preying Mantises can kill hummingbirds, but I would think this little species would have trouble with a hummingbird. Never the less, I flicked him off my feeder.<br />
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I took a ton of pictures of this hummingbird because it was pumping it's tail. It also had quite a bit of coppery color on it's belly.<br />
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I know that Black-chinned hummingbirds pump their tails so I was very interested. <br />
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Saturday after Soccer and a brunch at Jester's, I headed to Fort Fisher for a drive on the spit. I lucked into several Merlins including two of the most photogenic Merlins I have ever seen.<br />
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Merlin with prey<br />
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Least Sandpiper quaking in his little yellow legs.<br />
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Western Sandpiper<br />
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Dunlin<br />
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Forster's Tern - easy ID with the fully framed eye patch.<br />
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Black-bellied Plover<br />
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Sanderling<br />
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American Avocet - we get these occasionally at Fort Fisher. Much more common on the OBX.<br />
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So elegant<br />
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Another Merlin - look at those talons of death and destruction.<br />
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What an awesome day too. 70 degrees and crisp! I have to admit though, a little jealous of all the folks on the OBX for Wings over Water.<br />
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<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-52711463358692988502016-10-18T18:34:00.000-07:002016-10-18T18:34:38.002-07:00Sharp-tailed Sparrow Party (18Oct2016)This morning before work I attended a Sharp-tailed Sparrow party at Fort Fisher. The tide was super high and all the critters were forced to join the party.<br />
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Boat-tailed Grackles are always angry.<br />
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Ever notice when they sing they close their eyelids?<br />
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This bird is definitely not reserved.<br />
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On the rocks at Federal Point even the clappers were forced onto high ground.<br />
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Plenty of godwits but still no Hudsonian for me.<br />
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Northern Harrier<br />
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Cooper's Hawk<br />
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The tide was so high I could not get to Cut 3 and parked my truck and walked back to the marsh. It took a while to find the sparrows but I did eventually find a huge group.<br />
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Nelson's Sparrow - best field mark is the coloration contrast between breast and malar, or in the case of Nelson's no contrast.<br />
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Also the bib is fairly neat or clearly delineated.<br />
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This bird had no tail (in molt) and was probably a Saltmarsh but this is one of those tough ones as it has traits of both species. The head and malar is of a differing intensity which indicates Saltmarsh. However the light streaking is more indicative of Nelson's.<br />
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This one is clearly a Nelson's.<br />
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Another in between bird.<br />
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One of the best Saltmarsh candidates I have ever seen. Super dark streaks, ill defined bib, tons of contrast in orange intensity on malar and breast. Some field books point to bill size and this bird does seem to have a longish bill.<br />
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Can your Grandfather do This?<br />
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What a pretty bird....<br />
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I am blessed to live in this corner of NC. Now if I could only get a Le Conte's Sparrow.<br />
<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-16790724591817988842016-10-16T18:29:00.000-07:002016-10-16T18:29:56.487-07:00Oh My God..wit.... (12-16Oct2016)Oh My God..wit.... What a great run of birding lately.<div>
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The warbler actions continued at Burnt Mill Creek and Greenfield Lake on Wednesday.</div>
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Magnolia Warbler at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater - I really enjoyed birding with Greg this week and hope he gets out again soon. I also birded with Dave for a bit before we both had to get to work.<br />
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When is the last time you saw 4 Parulas in one photo? Probably not ever.<br />
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Three Parulas walk onto a bar....<br />
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Golden-crowned Kinglets are widely known to gave the most cute feet of the bird world.<br />
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Black-throated Blue<br />
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Cloudless Sulphur?<br />
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Thursday I had all day business in Raleigh but Friday morning I managed to get a couple hours in at Mason Farm in Chapel Hill. I love that place. Sparrows were back in full force.<br />
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Field Sparrow and White-throated Sparrow<br />
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Swamp Sparrow<br />
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Gray-cheeked Thrush eating a berry.<br />
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Saturday before George's soccer game at the Y, we stopped at Burnt Mill for 30 minutes.<br />
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American Redstart<br />
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Hmmm.... Another Yellow-bellied Flycatcher?<br />
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Very interesting...<br />
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Sam C called me during the game and reported a Clay-colored and White-crowned Sparrow at the Ft Fisher Ferry parking lot. I was not terribly confident since I had to finish the game and get breakfast with the family first, but then the boys and I headed down for a quick check.<br />
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The wild flower field was chock full of birds, mostly Common Yellowthroats and Palm Warblers but this Prairie Warbler was obliging.<br />
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Savannah Sparrow<br />
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White-crowned Sparrow!!<br />
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A year bird!<br />
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Sleepy Orange?<br />
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Top side of Sleepy Orange?<br />
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American Lady<br />
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Savannah Sparrow<br />
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Clay-colored Sparrow!!<br />
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Sunday was round 2 with a certain godwit stopping by from across the pond. I joined John F, Jack F (no relation), Marty W and Martha for an awesome day on Shackleford Banks.<br />
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The first group of birds just North of the ferry landing was thoroughly combed through.... no luck.<br />
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Marbled Godwit<br />
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Oystercatcher with bands - C-18 for anyone who cares.<br />
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Out on the beach I spotted a bird that was about the same size as the Willets but it's back was not smooth gray like the rest of the Willets. See center of frame.<br />
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As soon as it untucked I knew it was the Bar-tailed.<br />
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Bar-tailed - even if we never saw the tail or underwings this bird was obviously not a Marbled and it had notably short legs which is a field mark for Bar-tailed. Hudsonian and Black-tailed would not be so short legged.<br />
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The tail kind of looked worrisome here for a solid black sub-terminal band.<br />
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But alas, a barred tail in all it's glory.<br />
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No doubt about it and look at those short legs compared to the Marbled.<br />
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Soon a boat came by and scared our bird which was a shame.<br />
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I looked for a flight shot but could not find the bird in the group.<br />
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We also had an American Golden but I was too busy with the Bar-tailed to take pictures.</div>
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Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-56035081505346570602016-10-12T04:36:00.001-07:002016-10-15T02:51:08.964-07:00Hurricane Birds (07-10Oct2016)I don't wish hurricanes on anyone and definitely not on critters and birds. However, it does offer opportunities for some good looks at species that are usually not easy to see. Hurricane Matthew was not ideal for bringing pelagic rarities because it hugged the coast all the way from the Bahamas but it did bring some and it also brought a front on the back end that finally brought migrating birds to Wilmington. Also the birds that did come were exhausted and voracious which also made for good viewing.<br />
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This Semi-palmated Sandpiper was actually from the Friday before the storm.<br />
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I have been trying my hardest to find a Common Ringed Plover but have been unsuccessful so far. This bird had the one field mark of the white supercilium, but that only works if it is an adult male. Female and juvenile Semis also can have a white supercilium. <br />
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The black facial markings did not span the whole gape and only just pinched the top of the gape so this was not good for this bird. I tried zooming in on the toes as Semis have partially webbed feet but I did not get a good enough angle to see that. Keep your eyes open, some day you will find one.<br />
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During the storm Sam called and let me know a bunch of Sooty and Bridled Terns were weathering the storm on the South end of Wrightsville Beach. This was technically the eye of the storm although it was by no means sunny.<br />
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Common, Sandwich and Black Tern.<br />
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Black Tern in center of frame.<br />
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Bridled Tern - wings are not quite black as you can see compared to Black Skimmer and the nape has a white strip separating crown and back.<br />
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Another Bridled next to grass. <br />
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I diligently checked all the terns for any rarities but other than Bridled and Sooty I could not find any.<br />
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In the right light you could see how light the Bridled was compared to the Sooties.<br />
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In the wrong light the Bridled looked like Sooty Terns. However, i think the light strip on nape revealed most of these I was finding were Bridled.<br />
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No doubt about this one!! Juvenile Sooty Tern.<br />
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Thats the first all black juvenile I have seen in NC. As it started to get dark, I hightailed it home which ended up being perfect timing because the back end of the hurricane was the harshest. Although I woke up to find a mess in my yard, I escaped relatively easy compared to thousands of people with no power and downed trees. In fact I never lost power for more than a few minutes. Not that it mattered because I was out of my house birding all day Sunday.<br />
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Sunday morning I started at Wrightsville Beach and found very little on the North end.<br />
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However, this White-rumped Sandpiper was a welcome find.<br />
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The long wings were kind of weird looking on this bird probably because he was disheveled from the rough night.<br />
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Shell Island Resort sustained some damage too.<br />
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At the South end of Wrightsville I ran into a sad sight. A Sooty Tern on the beach looked to be dead, then I saw it blink it's good eye. The right eye was completely sealed by a mixture of sand and eye gunk. Its wings were splayed out so that he was spread-eagle on the sand. I got closer and he didn't move so I picked him up. A couple feeble pecks was all he could manage. The poor bird was tuckered out but his wings appeared sound and I just got the feeling he was just exhausted with nothing broken. So I cleaned out his bad eye with sea water and made a little shelter in some beach flax and grass and put him underneath, being careful to leave him an easy exit when he got his strength back. You may ask why not bring him to a rehabber? I thought the stress of that may be more likely to harm than help him. I truly believed he just needed to rest up a bit.<br />
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Sooty Terns have continuous black from cap to back.<br />
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This is the little shelter I made for him. Spoiler alert, I went back the next day and he was gone. I did not see any feathers on the ground so I like to think he got his strength back and flew away.<br />
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I headed to Fort Fisher after some Beach Bagels (try them if you are in town, yummy!).<br />
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Cooper's Hawk - I saw so many raptors over the next 4-5 hours it was ridiculous.<br />
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At the Federal Rocks overlook we had this Bridled Tern fly by.<br />
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Later on the Basin Trail I had two Wood Storks fly by which was a County first for me.<br />
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I love the Basin Trail because the birds are eye level.<br />
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Cape May Warbler<br />
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Merlin<br />
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Seaside Sparrow - right in this same area I flushed a small black colored rail and tried to re-find it but was unsuccessful. I am pretty sure it was a Black Rail, but I am not putting that on my list without a picture. The tide was super high and all the marsh birds were getting pushed up near the Basin Trail.<br />
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Peregrine Falcon<br />
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Palm Warbler - dare I say hundreds of these carpeted the flax.<br />
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Blackpoll Warbler!! See yellow legs/feet.<br />
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Then things got borderline ridiculous when I flushed a Sora and he perched in a Red Cedar tree.</div>
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Sora - never seen this species fly into a tree before.<br />
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Bobolink<br />
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Back at Federal Rocks the shorebirds were all sitting on the break wall just 15 feet from the dock. This one Godwit looked real interesting. However, apparently Marbled Godwits can have some size variation and I finally gave up trying to make him something better.<br />
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Short-billed Dowitcher<br />
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I stopped by the Recreation Fields and found a group of swallows and pipers to pore through.<br />
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White-Rumped Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper<br />
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"Don't even try to make me into a Baird's SP, here is my rump you newbie"<br />
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"Just in case you didn't get that, check this out".<br />
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The votes have come in folks, this was officially the most cooperative WRSP in the world.<br />
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So weird, the back end of this bird looked to be missing. Don't worry folks he was just shaking out his feathers after a bath.<br />
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Nice size comparison with Least SP.<br />
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I tried to get a pic of the swallows but only this Barn was rendered 2 dimensional.<br />
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Monday was a nice morning at Burnt Mill Creek. The front after the hurricane was nothing short of fantastic for birds.<br />
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Prairie Warbler<br />
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet<br />
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Cape May Warbler - one of those birds that you see quite often but have to take their picture none the less.<br />
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher!!! I know this will be picked apart but I am fairly certain based on the consistent coloration from belly to throat and the poor differentiation from malar to throat. Moderate primary projection too. Good eye ring.<br />
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Black-and-white Warbler<br />
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Phoebe<br />
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This empid had more contrast with a more whitish throat so probably was an Acadian but can't be sure. It was about a half mile away from the original sighting of the YB.<br />
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Eastern Wood Pewee<br />
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Eastern Bluebird<br />
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Tuesday I got a call from Greg telling me Greenfield Lake was hopping, so tear myself away from work I did.<br />
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Northern Parula<br />
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Hooded Warbler<br />
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Edit: actually a Pine Warbler, I did see a Blackburnian for sure as we saw the white back braces, but I must have also gotten a Pine mixed in and only taken pictures of the Pine. It was a little hectic.<br />
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Blackpoll Warbler - you can just make out yellow legs if you look closely.<br />
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Cape May<br />
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Nashville Warbler - not a bright individual but a Nashville none the less.<br />
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Yellowstart<br />
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Wilson's Warbler! Check the eye brow and the large eye.<br />
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No white edging on wings rules out Yellow Warbler and blackish tail with no white ruled out female Hooded.<br />
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Hands down the best 3-4 days of birding in NC I have ever had. I had 17 warbler species yesterday alone.<br />
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Great times.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-6798969721280204692016-10-05T16:03:00.001-07:002016-10-05T17:08:58.089-07:00Business Birder (03-05Oct2016)I have been all over the place the past few days and the crazy thing is I have been working the whole time, taking conference calls while looking for birds or while driving (don't worry I have Bluetooth). Normally I wouldn't go to such an extent during a work week, but rarities like a Bar-tailed Godwit and Connecticut Warbler are hard to come by.<br />
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Monday morning at 5am I headed to Harker's Island to get the first ferry to Shackleford Banks. I started out by birding Willow Pond while waiting for the boat. I had more warbler action in 20 minutes than I have had all the previous week in Wilmington, but the light was horrible and only managed a few poor pictures.<br />
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Cape May Warbler<br />
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Swainson's Thrush - it's amazing to think last year I had troubles getting a Swainson's and this year I have seen 20-30.<br />
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This Eastern Wood Pewee had me thinking Olive-sided for a few moments.<br />
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Another Cape May<br />
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On the ferry over to Shack I saw a large congregation of shorebirds on a marsh island about 150 yards from the ferry landing but the tide was maxed high and I could not get close, so I hoped my Bar-tailed Godwit was somewhere else more accessible. The spot where John F had it the day before was devoid of birds. I headed to the South end of the island where shorebirds frequently gather and gathered they were. However, after about 5 minutes of scanning a couple Peregrines scattered all the birds and they did not return.<br />
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Peregrine Falcon<br />
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With options exhausted I headed back to the marsh island and got as close as I could by wading across a small channel.<br />
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Large flocks of godwits and other birds. I did get a look at a smaller looking gray bird in amongst the godwits with my scope and when he untucked I saw the distinct godwit bill. However, I never got a look at the underwing or tail pattern before it shuffled back into the group and I lost it. Very frustrating but the birds looked to be staying and I didn't have the time or patience to wait for something to happen.<br />
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I had a couple TCs for work so my time was up and I prepared to leave, and that is when I ran into this fellow....<br />
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Reddish Egret<br />
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Not a bad consolation prize.<br />
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On the way out we (me and another birder) managed to convince the captain to get a little closer to the group of birds but it was a bit nerve wracking with 20 passengers waiting for us. So I snapped a bunch of pictures and scanned quickly with binocs... Long story short, no definite picture of the Bar-tailed. I will have to go back...<br />
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You have heard of a Gaggle of Geese, or a Murder of Crows but have you heard of a Crapload of Godwits? It's a real thing.<br />
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But my work was not over.. A Western Kingbird was reported at Fort Fisher so in the evening I made it back in time to find him still hawking insects from the fence.<br />
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Western Kingbird<br />
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Tuesday morning before work was spent at Burnt Mill Creek in downtown Wilmington. I hit the jackpot and had my first real migration event in Wilmington for the Fall season. The light was horrible, but I managed a few decent record shots.<br />
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Magnolia Warbler<br />
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Northern Parula<br />
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo<br />
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My 4th Nashville of the year although none of them are decent photos.<br />
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I think this was a Least Flycatcher<br />
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Ok so I need help on this one. First thought was Scarlet Tanager, but then I noticed a weird white feather where any wing-bar should be. Also, look at her bill, its orange right?<br />
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Here is the weird white feather sticking out at a weird angle. Also note the darker "saddle" above the rump when a gray tint.<br />
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Could this be a Western Tanager?<br />
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Bye bye Ms Tanager, until next time.<br />
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Another challenging empid. In this picture it looks like an Acadian with sharp contrast between malar and throat.<br />
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On this one it seems to exhibit some Yellow-bellied Flycatcher traits like short narrow tail and moderate primary projection.<br />
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This is the same bird in different light. Look at that yellow belly!<br />
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Again same bird. Worrisome that the throat is more white than belly. Most likely an Acadian.<br />
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Golden-winged Warbler!!! A rare bird in Wilmington.<br />
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Cape May<br />
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Yellow-throated Warbler<br />
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Not bad for Wilmington!<br />
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Today I woke up at 4am again and headed to Raleigh for a little Connecticut Warbler action.<br />
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This creek in Shenck Forest was chock full of Yellow-billed Cuckoos.<br />
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No idea what species but I thought it was a cool picture. This is what happens when you have your ISO cranked up for a Connecticut Warbler in the understory and shoot something you notice above you.<br />
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Jan H and Rob R (local birders in the triangle) were there and called me over when they found the Connecticut but this damn duo of Philadelphia Vireos kept trying to distract me. Not a bad problem to have.<br />
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Philadelphia Vireo<br />
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Connecticut Warbler - presumed first year bird.<br />
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He/she sat in this position for a good 5 minutes barely moving.<br />
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What does a Connecticut Warbler do when 5 birders are staring at it? Curls into the fetal position and plays dead of course. Actually he/she was cleaning his/her feet.<br />
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On the way out of Shenck I had a Black-bellied Plover x Buff-breasted Sandpiper Hybrid in an adjacent field.<br />
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Just kidding of course, its just a weird looking Black-bellied Plover.<br />
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What a good several days of birding. What's next? Flamingos?<br />
<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-65258023683576888342016-10-01T17:52:00.002-07:002016-10-02T03:28:11.958-07:00Fallousy (25Sep-01Oct2016)Fall is so much harder than Spring for bird ID, but that's what makes it fun. My week started in the mornings birding around Wilmington while doing some teleconferences. I love my job, or at least it beats most. If I was independently wealthy it would be even better.<br />
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Palm Warbler at Greenfield. The migration in Wilmington has sucked! No real cold snaps or North West winds yet.<br />
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Fall plumaged Pine Warblers used to confuse the heck out of me, but I think I got them down now.<br />
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This Thrush seen at Burnt Mill Creek was so reddish I though Veery, but now I think the light was throwing me off. Maybe Gray Cheeked? Dare I say Bicknell's?<br />
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Update: consensus is it is a Veery!<br />
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Frontal view of the same bird.<br />
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Nice clear throat which would point to Gray-cheeked? The spotting just looked too dark for a Veery and it obviously does not have the buffy spectacles of a Swainson's. Although it did look reddish overall, the color was even throughout unlike a Hermit which has contrast in tail versus back.<br />
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Little Blue Heron at Airlie Gardens.<br />
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Red-eyed Vireos are everywhere and like most birds seem to like Poison Ivy.<br />
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Young Eastern Kingbird. I asked him if he had seen his Western cousin and he just cocked his head and looked at me like I had two heads.<br />
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House Wren at Burnt Mill.<br />
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Arggghhh..... I should like the challenge of a good Empid, but I am missing Yellow-bellied Flycatcher for this year and this one was one of those birds that had some features but probably not a good fit. Most troublesome was the lack of a very wide eye-ring. <br />
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Plenty of yellow on belly, but contrast between malar and throat was probably too great.<br />
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Probably an Acadian?<br />
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Update: Consensus is no one wants to venture an opinion on this one. Ha!!<br />
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I had one bush with 20 REVIs in it at Oakdale Cemetery.<br />
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Hmmm... Great Blue?<br />
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Black-crowned Night-heron at Airlie<br />
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Yellow-crowned Night-heron<br />
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Hmm, BCNH carrying a stick? Isn't a bit late for making nests?<br />
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How much Wood could a Wood Duck Chuck if a Wood Duck could Chuck Wood<br />
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Have you ever seen such a sight?<br />
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White Ibis - a new yard bird. Actually I was viewing them from my front lawn but they were on my neighbor's yard. Does that count?<br />
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White morph Little Blue Heron which I think just mean's its a young bird.<br />
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Saturday was the long awaited Thrush Program at Brian P's house.<br />
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It was foggy as hell until 10am but then we found our quarry:<br />
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Gray-cheeked Thrush<br />
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This Bay-breasted Warbler still had hints of bay colors.<br />
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A very obliging Bay-breasted.<br />
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He has some spider webs stuck on his wings and was doing a weird dance to get rid of it.<br />
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Last year I would have had trouble with ID, but I am starting to feel comfortable with my tricky fall warbler IDs.<br />
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White-eyed Vireo<br />
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Brian has about 6-7 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks frequenting his feeders. This one had some color.<br />
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Jacob, Lucas and I bid Brian farewell and headed to Swift Creek in Wake County.<br />
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We promptly found more Gray-cheeked Thrushes - when it rains it pours.<br />
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Why I have more trouble getting Swainson's Thrush pictures than I do Gray-cheeked is beyond me. There were plenty Wood Thrushes too.<br />
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Last stop for the week was Yates Mill.<br />
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I found this immature Black-billed Cuckoo not too long after our arrival over by the second bridge in the willows. We hesitated a bit because young YB Cuckoos can have a darker bill. However, this guy had all the other marks good for an immature BB Cuckoo. Yellow orbital instead of the adult red, buffy throat, primary feathers lacking the rufous and the bill had no hints of yellow.<br />
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Bad picture but it shows the wings without rufous like the YB Cuckoo.<br />
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A half hour later we relocated it in the woods section eating it's staple caterpillar diet.<br />
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I think I am getting a bit spoiled because I was a little disappointed that I didn't get a Philly Vireo like the rest of the Piedmont birders this past week.<br />
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Altogether a great week of birding.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-30125592649040474302016-09-23T16:59:00.003-07:002016-09-23T16:59:58.573-07:00Warblember - 16-23Sept2016I am submitting an online petition to rename September as Warblember. I love this time of year. The contrast between the doldrums of summer and the migrating birds of the fall is a sure fire way to re-invigorate your life. I don't really get that contrast in the Spring because the Winter is pretty good for birding too. <br />
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Ocola Skipper<br />
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Winter plumage Chestnut-sided Warbler.<br />
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Common Yellowthroat in confusing fall plumage.<br />
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This past weekend I took my annual pilgrimage to Jackson Park in Hendersonville.<br />
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Northern Waterthrushes are a lock at Jackson Park but sometimes difficult to photograph. Believe it or not this is a new bird for my year photographic effort.<br />
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The streaky throat is the ID clincher. Louisiana Waterthrush has a clear throat or at least not as dense streaking.<br />
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This wren has seen better days.<br />
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I saw so many Magnolia Warblers but didn't manage to get any decent photos.<br />
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Diagnostic black tail tip for Magnolia Warbler.<br />
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Common Buckeye<br />
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Saturday afternoon I finally experienced the event I have been wishing for all my birding life. I have seen fallout before at High Island in Texas, but I have never seen a proper migration event at Ridge Junction on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is the stuff of legend. I have read about people seeing thousands of warblers and other birds funneling up the North face of the Black Mountains ridge near Mt Mitchell during one of these events, but I always wondered if they were exaggerated accounts. Well now I can say they are everything they are cracked up to be. What typically happens is the birds migrating South all funnel from the Northwest and Northeast up to Ridge Junction where the ridges meet and then the birds have nowhere left go to but over the ridge. Usually these events are first thing in the morning. However, this time I lucked into it at 3pm. Actually it was not typical in that the birds were traveling along the parkway and not just up and over. <br />
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Cape May Warbler - I saw hundreds of these.<br />
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Cedar Waxwings<br />
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Tennessee Warbler<br />
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Golden-crowned Kinglets were all over<br />
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This Empidonax flycatcher was interesting. It had some yellow wash to it but I think it was probably a Traill's Flycatcher (Alder/Willow).<br />
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The eye-ring was minimal.<br />
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Black-throated Blue female.<br />
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Another Cape May.<br />
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Brown Creeper - master of camouflage.<br />
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I am going with Mimic Crescent for this one. I zoomed it and it appears to be a male (blunt abdomen tip) and if I zoom in all the way, the underside of the "clubs" appear to be orange. I can't be sure though.<br />
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Common Raven<br />
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American Lady<br />
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Saturday night I was planning on camping at the Mt. Mitchell campground but apparently they only have 9 spots and they were taken. I asked the ranger where was the closest place to camp and he directed me to Commissary Ridge about 1.7 miles from the summit on a trail. It was not a fun hike because I had not brought my pack and had to carry all my gear in separate bags: camera, sleeping bag, tent, food bag. However I made it before dark and had a huge flock of warblers and kinglets moving all around my camp site. It was a beautiful spot but a bunch of stoners were laughing like crazy which was kind of annoying. Just before dark a Northern Saw-whet Owl did a couple toots and then promptly stopped before I could record it.<br />
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In the morning I finally got a picture of a nemesis photograph bird. I have seem my fair share of Bay-breasted Warblers but have never been able to photograph one.<br />
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Bay-breasted Warbler - greenish yellow sides of neck and two prominent wing bars.<br />
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Another view.<br />
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Black-throated Blueberry Warbler<br />
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Right around this time I had a female Ruffed Grouse calling but never got a photo op.<br />
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Sharp-shinned Hawk<br />
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The birding in the morning was not nearly as good and the previous afternoon.<br />
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Red-breasted Nuthatch<br />
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Worst picture ever of a Swainson's Thrush but the diagnostic buffy eye-ring is visible.<br />
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Meadow Fritillary<br />
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Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak.<br />
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Back in Wilmington during the week a Mourning Warbler was reported at Burnt Mill Creek, so I went.<br />
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A few Common Yellowthroats had me second guessing, but I never did see any convincing bird.<br />
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Another presumed Traill's Flycatcher - short primary projection.<br />
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I think this was a Hummingbird Moth, but I am not sure.<br />
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Great times...Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-8961274142013590952016-09-16T04:17:00.001-07:002016-09-16T04:17:18.071-07:00Franklin's Gull - 15Sep2016A walk on the beach for sunset is almost always nice, but it's twice as nice when a Franklin's Gull is hanging out. It did not take long to notice this odd looking bird. He was even facing the wrong way.<br />
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Franklin's Gull among a huge flock of Gulls and Terns hunkered down into the NE wind.<br />
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Here you can really see the size difference with the Laughing Gulls and specifically the more dainty bill.<br />
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Plenty of other distractions including this tasty Sandwich Tern.<br />
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Royal Tern - Hail Caesar!<br />
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Is it me or is a Franklin's cute? Maybe it's the molting primaries that make it look dump and alcid like.<br />
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The mighty bellow of a Franklin's Gull has been known to knock a full grown man backwards.<br />
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Nice bill comparison.<br />
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He/she never flew off while I was there. I got real close by moving only an inch a minute then backed away the same way.<br />
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Hmmm, wings on this Common Tern looked a little white to me.<br />
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Try as I might, I think it's a Common Tern and not something more interesting.<br />
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I love living at the beach...Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-56964669534052134482016-09-15T06:54:00.001-07:002016-09-16T04:25:28.009-07:00Potpourri - 03-14Sep2016I don't like posting when I don't have a new year bird to add, hence the long wait in between posts now. However, I do have quite a few photos to share from the past couple weeks and finally one year bird.<br />
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Starting with Ft. Fisher spit after Hermine, we found some nice birds including Stilt Sandpiper and White-rumped Sandpiper. Baird's SP still eludes me...<br />
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Derb has a knack for spotting long-winged LBJSBs (Little Brown Job Shore Birds). This one was IDed as a White-rumped based on the faint streaking on it's side.<br />
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Over at the Rec Fields at Fort Fisher there was a really nice mix of shorebirds attracted to the flooded fields. We were convinced we had a crap load of Baird's SPs based on what looked to be long winged birds with dark legs.<br />
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Yes even Least Sandpipers can be long winged looking and the dark legs were simply because the sun was overhead and shadowing the otherwise yellow legs. Birding is hard. How embarrassing.<br />
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Stilt Sandpipers are easier to ID.<br />
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There was plenty of Lesser Yellowlegs too.<br />
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Pectoral Sandpipers dwarfed the Least Sandpipers making us recognize we did not have any Baird's.<br />
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Is is me or does a Pectoral SP look like an overgrown Least?<br />
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What an idyllic scene. Least SPs are the nicest of the three regular Peeps in my humble opinion.<br />
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Least and Pectoral. Can you see where we went wrong, the feathers look to project well past the tail on this Least.<br />
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When he/she lifted his legs out of the shadow you could see the yellowish tint.<br />
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Pec<br />
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Cloudless Sulphur?<br />
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Solitary Sandpiper<br />
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Stilt SP and Lesser Yellowlegs.<br />
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper<br />
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The weekend after Hermine I probably should have headed to the OBX to surf, but instead I went to Carteret County to look for the Barn Owl in a duck blind out in the middle of the Cedar Island Marsh. Don't worry, I am not spilling the beans on a secret location because the damn bird is gone. I was too late. I drove 3 hours to get there, kayaked 1.5 hours to get to the blind only to find an empty blind. Then I had to repeat the 4.5 hours on the way back, but not before a quick stop at Cedar Island Ferry Terminal.<br />
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Nice assortment of gulls - Herrings on left, Great Black-backed in middle with a Lesser Black-backed Gull to the right of the GBB.<br />
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Four Lesser Black-backed in this picture! I think there was 6-7 total.<br />
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It was nice to study the various plumages of the LBBs. This one was young enough that it did not have the trademark yellow legs yet.<br />
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Adult Lesser Black-backed.<br />
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Tricolored Heron<br />
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I may be way off on this one, but I think this is a Blue Dasher.<br />
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Sleepy Orange (thanks Brian)<br />
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Cicada - will try and narrow species later.<br />
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Ok stop reading if you hate horrible attempts at record shots of year birds. Last weekend was Luke's soccer tourney in Rock Hill, SC but I got one morning at Ribbonwalk Nature Preserve in Charlotte. A great little park. I was hoping for any warblers but expecting Magnolia at the very least. As it happens, I did not get Magnolia but did get Blue-winged which is probably better as I am sure to get Magnolia when I go up to the mountains.<br />
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Blue-winged Warbler speed blur. You can see the dark eye-line here.<br />
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Mostly yellow body with bluish wings and white vent.<br />
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I have seen 30-40 Blue-winged Warblers in my life and have Zero decent pictures of them.<br />
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Osprey at Airlie Gardens.<br />
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Long-tailed Skipper - I love an easy ID on a Butterfly.<br />
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Monarch Butterfly<br />
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Since Sam found a Franklin's Gull a couple days ago, I have been frequenting the North end of Wrightsville Beach before and after work.<br />
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Plenty of Laughing Gulls around in various stages of molt.<br />
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I was interested in this Herring looking gull due to the pink gape (corners of mouth) and dark iris. I was hoping Thayer's but the legs were not pink enough for my liking and too much dark on primaries. Could it be a hybrid? I believe Herring should have a yellow gape and usually yellow iris.<br />
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I took a few photos of plumage so any experts could look for something.<br />
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Look at that pink gape!!!<br />
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Caspian Tern<br />
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Presumed Common Tern, it seems I will never get a Roseate.<br />
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This Black-bellied Plover had me doing double-takes. So spotty and richly colored. However, I did confirm black axillaries and whitish rump so Black-bellied it is.<br />
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WTF!! I have heard of Laughing Gulls with red bills but this guy/gal was really strange looking.<br />
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I took a mess load of photos in case anyone wants to turn this into something other than a Laughing Gull.<br />
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The dark wing tips were restricted to very ends but I think it is just a molting thing.<br />
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This Laughing Gull had a pretty pronounced red tip to bill. All these birds were doing their best to throw me off the Franklin's trail. I ended up not ever seeing a clear candidate for Franklin's.<br />
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Marbled Godwit<br />
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Yesterday evening I had a Jaeger/Skua looking bird but the weird thing was it was being chased by a gull. Weird role reversal. In looking at the photo now, I see this is probably a Parasitic Jaeger based on size compared to Laughing Gull behind it. I would have loved a Long-tailed Jaeger but the bill is to big I think.<br />
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A more typical Herring Gull.<br />
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Photos with a 400mm lens of landscapes and sunsets never do any justice, but trust me when I say the sunset last night on WB was outstanding. There was a full rainbow to the East and a ridiculous orange sky on fire to the West.<br />
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Great times.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-20019925255163062992016-09-01T15:46:00.000-07:002016-09-01T15:46:01.916-07:00The Common, the Buffy and the Nasty (29Aug-01Sep2016)Common Terns are not really that common, but we are seeing more and more on the beaches now in migration. The following sequence is from the Fort Fisher Spit.<br />
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The one in the center had an awfully dark bill and had me hoping for Roseate Tern.<br />
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However, I soon came to terms with this being a light artifact. In the above picture the dark bill switched to the back bird when he turned his head.<br />
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Everything else about these birds pointed to Common Tern including the gray bellies, extensive black on primaries and some had dark carpal bars.<br />
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Usually if you see a full dark cap and dark bill this time of year you should check for Roseate. The tail on this one was also too short.<br />
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The one on the left was banded which of course also made me think Roseate, but even Common Terns are banded.<br />
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In better light, the red on the bills was showing more.<br />
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Here you can really see the gray on the body and the black on the primaries.<br />
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Caspian Tern<br />
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Red Knots<br />
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Then today on the spit I finally found one of my nagging targets.<br />
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper - and a beauty too! <br />
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I took about 6 trillion photos so count yourself lucky that I am only posting about 10.<br />
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The detail on these birds is mind blowing. Look at those spots!<br />
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How about those black head feathers....<br />
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What an awesome find and a particularly obliging bird.<br />
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Now that the pressure was off, I was able to study up on my Peeps.<br />
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Looking at the bill alone I would have called this a Semi-palmated Sandpiper, as it is shorter and thicker at the base. However, the feathers recall more of a Western. Western SPs have black or dark "anchors" to the feathers. Also they have rufous on scapulars which is somewhat limited on this bird. Any feedback is appreciated.<br />
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Least SPs are usually an easy call due to yellowish legs although it can be tough if the light is bad or the bird has mud on it's legs. In this case it was a fairly easy call. Least SPs also are generally more colorful all over.<br />
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This one looks more like a Semi to me even though the bill droops a bit like a Western. The feathers lack the dark anchors.<br />
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This one is clearly a Western with a nice long drooping bill and rufous scapulars.<br />
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Least SP<br />
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Western SP<br />
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Carolina Saddlebags!! Common but new for me. Don't worry folks, I will stick with birds for the most part.<br />
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More variation in these Least SPs...<br />
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And even more....<br />
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Then this nasty beast flew in and scared the crap out of a gaggle of White Ibis.<br />
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Cooper's Hawk<br />
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This bad boy (or more likely bad girl seeing it was so huge) was so big and nasty that I thought just maybe Goshawk in the back of my brain. However, the logical section of my brain prevailed.<br />
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I sent this old photo from 2014 to a guy looking for King Rail photos for a billboard at Mackay Island. However, it was taken with my old camera set up and resolution is probably too poor. However, wouldn't that be awesome if they used it?<br />
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Here's hoping for some storm birds this weekend from Hermine.<br />
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Cheers.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-56421526148176150752016-08-27T06:08:00.000-07:002016-08-27T06:08:19.424-07:00Shore Birding Galore (14-26Aug2016)I love a good shore bird....<br />
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Garbled Modwit and friends on Ft Fisher Spit<br />
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Yellow Warblers are coming through. This one was at Lock and Dam. Once again no shorebirds at Oakland Sod Farms. I always dip there.<br />
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I believe this is a Great Blue Skimmer female. Wow, dragonfly ID is not easy or at least I don't know where to start. That being said, birding was like this when I first started. So humbling.<br />
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I believe this is a Twelve Spotted Skimmer female. The male would have white spots in addition to black on wings.<br />
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Last weekend I joined a bunch of friends to Ophelia Inlet and nearby flats to look for rare shorebirds. When the boat captain dropped us off at the South end of Ophelia Inlet, I immediately found a Long-billed Curlew. Probably the same one from March of this year.<br />
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Beautiful colors on this bird. He/she seems to be molting quite heavily.<br />
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We saw hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and I should have taken a couple landscape pictures to give you an idea for the shear numbers....but I didn't. <br />
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American Avocets - Ophelia Inlet<br />
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We re-found the curlew later on a different island.<br />
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Laughing Gulls are starting to look snazzy<br />
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The middle of the week work was driving me insane as I have been covering for a bunch of people on vacation and we had some turn over which always makes my job stressful so once I was caught up on emails and had a gap in my TC schedule, I decided to head up to Mattamuskeet and try for some Ricky Birds. For those of you uninitiated, Ricky Birds are rare birds that a local North Carolina birder with the first name of Ricky has found. Ricky found a Wilson's Phalarope, Baird's Sandpiper and an American Golden Plover last weekend at Lake Landing on the Eastern side of Mattamuskeet. I need all three for my year list and Wilson's Phalarope would be a NC bird for me so it was a no brainer. I looked through a mess load of shorebirds for over 2 hours and wasn't finding any of my three targets, but persistence pays and I finally found the Wilson's Phalarope way out in the middle of the impoundment.<br />
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This is what it looked like through my 400mm lens so this can give you an idea of how far these birds were. A scope was essential. Unfortunately my digi-scoping set up is terrible and usually cropped photos through my 400mm end up better. The Phalarope was easily IDed by behavior alone. It was feeding in a puddle like a lunatic, turning in circles and moving around much more actively than the nearby yellowlegs and other shorebirds.<br />
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Heavily cropped image showing Wilson's Phalarope in the center of the frame. I know this photo is crap and I probably should not count this on my photographed list but I make the rules and I want to include it. Don't worry I am not breaking any records this year anyhow. You can see here the white face, gray back and size relative to the Black-bellied Plover on the right and Semi-palmated Plover in the foreground. I was struck on it's size which is significantly bigger than the Red-necked Phalaropes I saw last weekend on the pelagic. I need to get me a video camera with a good zoom for birds like this where behavior is so diagnostic.<br />
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Palamedes on left and Viceroy on right.<br />
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Viceroy<br />
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WTF? Weird looking egret. Legs are neither black or yellow and lores are not convincing either.<br />
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Presumed Orange Sulphur<br />
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Palamedes<br />
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The above butterflies distracted enough that I stayed long enough to find target #2 - American Golden Plover.<br />
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American Golden on left and Black-bellied on right. Best field mark is how far the black extends. On American Golden it goes all the way to vent. <br />
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Black Swallowtail<br />
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Shun called me Thursday letting me know he found a Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Rich Inlet on the North side of Figure Eight Island. Luckily he was willing to bring me on Friday after work.<br />
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In the end we did not find the Buff-breasted but this Snowy Plover was a nice consolation.</div>
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Nice comparison between a Piping Plover on left and Snowy Plover on right. Leg color and bill structure are the best field marks.</div>
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I have George this weekend while Luke and mom are at a soccer tourney in SC so I probably will not get out birding much. I am hoping for another mountains trip next weekend.<br />
<br />Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-52013975617877761502016-08-15T04:00:00.000-07:002016-08-15T04:00:30.666-07:00Birding is Hard (5-13-Aug-2016)I have birded really hard this past week and only managed one year bird. But even so I had a good time doing it. I started at Wrightsville Beach while my kids were in surf camp.<br />
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Black Terns are better looking when in adult breeding plumage but these were so cooperative that I couldn't pass up the opportunity.<br />
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Elegant!<br />
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Some immature Common Terns kept me on my toes. I have been looking for Roseate Terns with no luck.<br />
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Black Skimmer<br />
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Black-bellied Plovers<br />
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After someone posted Black-bellied Whistling-ducks in Brunswick County I just had to go chase them. Turns out they were Wood Ducks, but I brought my family and had a good time anyhow.<br />
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This was the biggest Alligator I have ever seen. I was too lazy to change my lens so here he is from 10 feet away with a 400mm lens.<br />
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Mom and Son #1 and Lee Buck Rd.<br />
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On the Ft. Fisher Spit later in the week I had thousands of shorebirds but nothing rare.<br />
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BB Plover and Red Knots<br />
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A nice three day weekend started on Friday with me getting up a tad late and missing dawn at Cedar Island Causeway where I was hoping to get Barn Owl or Black Rail.<br />
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There were plenty of Least Bitterns still hanging around.<br />
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This Clapper Rail was very accommodating allowing me to try various camera settings.<br />
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Down at the ferry terminal it was more of the usual suspects.<br />
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Presumed Short-billed Dowitcher defying the salt water stereotype and hunting in the fresh water pond.<br />
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The horses at Cedar Island are not wild/feral but they do look it.<br />
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Red Knot with Semi-palmated friend.<br />
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Black Skimmer<br />
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Some people's pot of gold are other people's gull flocks. These Laughing Gulls were at the terminus of a full rainbow. Unfortunately rainbows never photograph well especially with a 400mm lens.<br />
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It was so hot this day, I was a sweaty mess by the time I got back to my truck and got on line for the ferry to Ocracoke and it was only 9am. Outside Ocracoke I saw my good buddy the Reddish Egret but the photos were distant and crappy.<br />
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On Hatteras I found some nice Tern flocks to comb through but only came up with the usuals including these Common Terns.<br />
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Young Common stretching his wings for me to study.<br />
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Some of the juveniles had some of the Roseate Tern traits but none of them were a good match for all the traits.<br />
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For example this one looked to have a dark bill but his primaries were too dark.<br />
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It was so hot and the water in these shallows had so little movement that it was scalding hot. I waded out to where the flock was and could not believe how hot the water was. I would say 90s at least. All the birds were "panting" to let heat escape out of their mouths.<br />
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Common Tern amongst the Royals.<br />
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This tree frog was interesting so I tried to identify it. I thought to myself that the black spot on its side must be a field mark so it took me a while to recognize it was probably just a piece of dirt or an insect. Anyway, apparently if the frog is green and looks like a tree frog, its a Green Treefrog. The frog people must have more sense when naming critters than the bird people do.<br />
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At my camping spot just as the sun was setting, I was truly puzzled by this bird because of a light artifact. It appeared to have a clear breast all the way up to his/her chin which ruled out Pectoral SP. However the only similarly sized bird with same bill length was Sharp-tailed SP!! A Mega! Of course Sharp-tailed had other field marks which this bird did not have but the optimist side of my brain was over-riding the logic side.<br />
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I side-winded over a bit and took some more pics of which I studied and noted that the bib was there all along but was not showing well because of light refraction or some other anomaly. Normally I would have been happy to see a Pectoral but now I was frustrated at this bird. <br />
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After erecting my tent and lying down on my picnic table to look for shooting stars in the predicted meteor shower, I was joined by a drunk fellow from Alabama who after 2 minutes of meeting me told me his life story including the recent death of his father. He actually was pretty nice and interesting so it was not as bad as I initially thought. Much to the chagrin of my wife, I am not much of one for socializing so having a stranger come over and talk to me for an hour is something I usually try and avoid. However, I enjoyed this guy's time and did not try and give him any hints. He eventually ran out of beer and bid me adieu. The night sky was beautiful and I did see a bunch of shooting stars although it was not the "shower" that I anticipated. <br />
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Sunset at the Buxton Campground.<br />
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Sunrise before leaving Hatteras Inlet on the Stormy Petrel II.<br />
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Yes, once again I signed up to punish myself on a 12 hour pelagic boat trip on the high seas. I say punish because most sane people would not subject themselves to 12 hours of tossing and turning with barely any protection from the hot sun all to see possibly one or two year birds. Yet the boat was full of like minded people including some of NC's finest like Ed C, Jeff L and Lucas B who were the spotters.<br />
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Spoiler alert, we did not see any megas or life birds for me so it was a tad bit of a disappointment but I know the drill by now. You have to put in your time on these boats to eventually get lucky with the rarities. <br />
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I thought for sure I got some decent photos of a Band-rumped Storm-petrel but apparently the only in focus one was this ass shot.<br />
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Sooty Tern!!! There was my year bird and we ended up seeing 5 of them.<br />
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Nice dark back. I also learned that they typically fly and forage higher up than the Bridled. I already knew that Bridled are more likely to be found perched on flotsam.<br />
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Leatherback Sea Turtle was a nice find. These are the largest turtles in the world. One of the largest specimens found weighed in at over 2000 pounds!!<br />
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Audubon's Shearwaters were plentiful and offered decent looks.<br />
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Black-capped Petrels are always good to watch. As long as you get one BC Petrel the trip was worth it.<br />
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Cory's Shearwater<br />
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Bridled Tern sitting on a large piece of bamboo. <br />
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Finally on the way back in we ran into a flock of Red-necked Phalarope.<br />
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Goodbye my feathered pelagic friends. I don't know when I will see you again unless we have a hurricane and you take shelter on our lakes and shorelines. I hope for your sake that is not the case.<br />
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Fall migration is coming..... Are you ready? I am.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-34282988835288493632016-07-31T08:26:00.001-07:002016-07-31T08:26:20.952-07:00Summer Doldrums? That's Malarkey! Thanks Joe Biden for that Word. (23-30Jul2016)Hot and Sticky? I feel your pain. The best thing to do when the weather hits over 90 for a week straight is to head to the mountains. Of course I had 6 target birds in the mountains so that also helped motivate me. <br />
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But first some pics from earlier in the week during my kid's soccer practice. A group of Mississippi Kites has consistently been foraging over these fields so I had my camera ready.<br />
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I could watch Kites for hours, such graceful fliers.<br />
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I also made a late evening trip during the week to Plantation Rd near the old Orton Plantation in Brunswick County to try for a reported Barn Owl. No luck on that Nemesis Bird, but there was a ton of Common Nighthawks doing the "sonic boom" so that was worth the trip.<br />
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Friday I took off from work and headed early to Catawba County to try a second time for Brown Booby and this time with a plan to get better pictures. Some of you may remember the Limpkin from last year and some of you may have even rented a kayak from Island Water Sports near Catawba on Hudson Chapel Rd. This Booby is only 20 minutes drive away so I went and rented a kayak, threw it in my truck bed with some tie-downs and then launched at the Booby stakeout spot. I was not disappointed.<br />
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Taking a picture with a 400 mm lens from a moving kayak in a brisk wind is not easy. I inched closer and closer hoping for a better shot and suddenly he took off. Knowing this was my last chance to get a decent photo I quickly snapped a series of photos rapid fire and luckily a few focused ok.<br />
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Whew, that was lucky! I am sure he would have come back if I waited but who knows how long I would have to wait and I had more plans for birds in the mountains. Not to mention that at 10am it was already getting close to 90 degrees.<br />
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First stop in the mountains was a pee break on Curtis Creek Rd on the way up to Mitchell. <br />
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I was hoping this all yellow warbler was a Wilson's but the dark lores and white flashes in the tail feathers proved it to be a Hooded Warbler.<br />
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Up on the top, it was beautiful!!! 70 degrees and gorgeous. I have to keep reminding myself I need to take some scenery pics for you all, but this time I totally was in the moment and forgot. I love Mt Mitchell. Being the highest point east of the Mississippi River, it obviously has very different habitat than most of the rest of NC. This time it was tons and tons of Cedar Waxwings and butterflies so I started a little study of the butterflies.<br />
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I believe this is a Pipevine Swallowtail. There was a ton of these.<br />
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Pipevine<br />
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Black-throated Green Warbler<br />
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Being a noob at butterfly ID, I didn't take a picture of the underwing which is kind of necessary for Comma ID. However, I think this is a Green Comma. Feel free to correct me. I am using Jeff Pippen's website for ID as I don't have a guidebook. http://www.jeffpippen.com/butterflies/nc-butterflies.htm<br />
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Hiking the Commissary Trail I finally found a Red Crossbill, one of my target species.<br />
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Silver-Spotted Skipper<br />
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Later I found a couple more Red Crossbills at the Ranger Station. Then things got a little freaky.<br />
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Red-Crossbill or Undead Crossbill? This poor guy looked to be afflicted with Bumble Foot (avian disease) not to mention his molting feathers were covered in sap from the cones which are all oozing a ton right now. Not a pretty sight but beggars can't be choosers so when an Undead Crossbill lands on the pavement in front of me I might as well photograph it.<br />
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Then a whole flock of them started landing on the walkways and eating grit. Apparently they do this to aid in digestion of the cones.<br />
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Unfortunately the light wasn't great as it was almost 7pm and I might have had my camera on the wrong setting now that I think of it. I was not prepared for a Crossbill party on the lawn.<br />
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This was just a small contingency of the 19 Crossbills I counted in this group.<br />
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Wow! I bet I will not see something like that for a while.<br />
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On my way down the mountain driving towards Asheville I made a brief stop at Tanbark Tunnel to try for Cerulean Warblers. I knew it was probably futile as the breeding birds were probably not singing anymore and finding a quiet Cerulean in a sea of green was a longshot. As I checked all the high tree tops on the down slope, I spotted something strange.<br />
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Way up a tree where the Ceruleans should have been I something big and black climbing.<br />
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A Black Bear!!<br />
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I snapped some shots with my 400mm but the fading light obviously took its toll on the pictures.<br />
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It was moving quick climbing the tree like an expert. <br />
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Lesson learned - don't try to run up a tree when being chased by a bear. Actually I knew this already but I was floored by the height this bear was going. It had to be 70-100 feet up.<br />
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Once she noticed me she quickly climbed down the tree and that's when I noticed at least one cub in another tree quickly climbing down too. Unfortunately none of those pics came out. Later this evening I found out that Mark S and Marilyn W had a Sow with 5 cubs near this very location. probably the same family unit.<br />
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Very cool.<br />
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At that point it was getting late so I proceeded to my final destination which was the Mt. Pisgah Campground. Of course as I arrived it started to pour..... Oh well, when a plan falls through, just do something else. So I scrapped the camping plan and headed further South on the Parkway.<br />
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The rain storm abated a few miles down the BRP. It was perfect timing for finding Saw-whet Owls at the Devil's Courthouse. I came equipped with my spotlight and was excited to take some pics of some tooters. Unfortunately again I was unlucky in that a large group of teenagers picked this Friday night to have a drunken party on top of the dome. I could hear them all the way from the parking lot. They had even brought a boom box with them up there. Some of them were hanging out down the rock face where signs explicitly said not to go due to nesting Peregrine Falcons. Hopefully the falcons already fledged. I spent about two hours waiting on the dark trails waiting for Saw-whets which never materialized. Big bummer. I did hear Barred and Great Horned Owls. The night sky was truly amazing too so it was not all for nothing. <br />
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By the time I left it was 10:30pm and I was fading fast. I didn't know the rules for sleeping in my car on the BRP so I headed down towards Waynesville, NC looking for a hotel. Apparently all of my fellow Carolinians had the same idea because every hotel including the fleabag ones were chock full. I finally gave up at midnight and fell sleep in a highway rest stop and surprisingly did not wake until 6am the next morning.<br />
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My next target was Ruffed Grouse and the best way to find them is to get up early and drive the parkway before the rest of the crowds, checking the grassy sides of the road. So back up I went, this time South towards the Great Smokies.<br />
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Sunrises and Sunsets on the BRP are consistently amazing if you find the right nooks.<br />
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Dawn the Rosy Fingered.<br />
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No luck on the Ruffed Grouse or any Elk for that matter. Bah Humbug! So what better to salvage a couple disappointments than with a sure bet. That sure bet is the Black-capped Chickadees of Clingman's Dome, the highest point on the Appalachian Trail. I always have had luck finding this species here which is normally tricky in NC. The BC Chickadees at Clingman's seem to be a pretty isolated population being 200 miles from any other contiguous population. They love the high elevation firs and Clingman's has that habitat.<br />
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I decided on taking the Forney Creek Trail loop up to the summit to avoid the crowds. At exactly the same spot as last year's birds I found two BC Chickadees but they were not being cooperative. They did not vocalize but I did clearly see the marks including the white nape and edging on the primaries. Unfortunately after getting my looks with my binocs in between branches they decided to become very skulky and did not allow any decent pictures.<br />
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If I was not so far from any kind of NC record for big years I would not have been happy with this photo, but at this point I am totally fine with it. If I ever do get closer to the record for a Big Year, I will be more stringent about getting a diagnostic photo which this is not. The only thing I can say which points to BC Chickadee in this pic is the bib is large and does not have good clear borders. Carolina Chickadees tend to have a smaller and neater black bib. However, the true field marks of the nape and primary edging is not evident in this photo. I did hike around for another two hours looking for a better photo candidate but failed to find any more. <br />
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This juvie looking Red-breasted Nuthatch was a bit more obliging.<br />
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I love a winter plumaged Chestnut-sided Warbler. I think they are better looking than the breeding plumage.<br />
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None of the photos were coming out great because of the cloudy weather. True to it's name, the Smokies are usually in the clouds but that is what made it so nice and cool so I was not complaining. You know who was complaining? The million other Carolinians and Tennesseans that were hiking the summit road. I took this road on the way down to check on the hummingbirds I have seen here in the summer but quickly regretted it. Every biker in leather chaps and overweight Couch Potato in NC was up there. In any other country, if you were plopped down in a National Park it would take a little while to understand what country you were in. In the USA, there is no mistake. I guess I should have been pleased that these people were getting out in the great outdoors, but it was depressing none the less. None of them seemed to care about their surroundings, they would labor up ten steps huffing and puffing and constantly checking their cell phones and shouting to each other. When they saw me with my camera they would make sarcastic remarks about how I must be getting awesome shots (the view was socked in). It would be too mind boggling to most of these people that someone would be enjoying the flowers and birds so I didn't try to explain. I was trying not to be negative but this is a demographic of people that I really try and avoid and they all seemed to be concentrated in 200 yards of road. Not to mention the cacophony of Motorcycles on the BRP and Clingman's approach road. What in the world are people thinking when bringing those loud machines up on the BRP and Smokies? It makes me think of a time when my family was on a flight to Costa Rica and some really loud and obnoxious people were seated across the aisle from us. We were circling before landing in San Jose and one of these morons said "Wow look how beautiful it is down there...." I thought to myself maybe these guys are not so bad. Then he said "I wish I brought my quad down here so I could tear this place up". Why????? Sometimes I wish natural selection would be allowed to work it's magic more quickly.<br />
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So as not to leave on a bad note, I went back out again on the Forney Creek Trail and up to the AT and got to a point were I could hear nothing but the wind in the trees and the sound of water droplets as they condensed off the fir tips and landed on the ground. Music to my ears. If you hike down the AT away from the summit, the contrast between the loud and obnoxious crowds and the utter quiet and solitude is amazing. The ridge somehow completely dampens any noise coming from the summit overlook. Perfect serenity....<br />
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There was tons of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds feeding on copious amounts of Bee Balm. Is this Bee Balm native or someone planted it way up here?<br />
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Last bird of the trip was this empidonax flycatcher which looked to be of the Traill's complex (Alder and Willow). I am guessing Alder based on habitat. However, he/she never vocalized.<br />
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What a great escape from the heat in Wilmington.... I can't wait to go back.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-47700049061098030662016-07-21T14:52:00.001-07:002016-07-24T11:25:21.427-07:00DE, NJ, NY, PA but Nothing Beats NC (06-21Jul2016)Sorry about the lack of bloggage (not sure if that is a word, it shouldn't be), I have been on a family vacation. This particular vacation was for visiting parents on both sides and was in the middle of the summer doldrums so I didn't bird too much but I did get some decent shots anyhow. Actually the first part was spent in Delaware on a work trip but I only got a couple hours to bird which I spent at Bombay Hook and surrounding area. What a cool place. I will have to go back.<br />
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American Avocets<br />
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Black-necked Stilts and friends.<br />
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Shorebird party.<br />
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Clapper Rail<br />
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Clapper baby!<br />
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After my work trip I picked up my family in Philly and drove to Long Island, NY. It was good to get back to my original home for a couple days. My favorite spot near my parent's place is Avalon Preserve in Stony Brook. It is a Hedge Fund Manager's way of giving back to the community. Who was it that said philanthropists spend the first half of their lives stealing a crap load of money only to feel guilty and give it all back in the later half?<br />
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The only Blue-winged Warbler I saw was not cooperative.<br />
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Hairy Woodpeckers are easier to come by in NY.<br />
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There is a giant silver sphere in the middle of the preserve where you can write some thoughts down and slip them into a slot on the sphere. This is actually a reflection off the sphere. In the middle you can see the slot.<br />
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A reflective shot of my brother and I. I liked this one because it accentuated my brother's hideous face and my huge upper body. Look at those shoulders! I am built like an ox.<br />
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Goldfinch<br />
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There is no shortage of Yellow Warblers in NY.<br />
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Song Sparrow - the flower fields at Avalon are awesome.<br />
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Common Yellowthroat on a Milkweed flower.<br />
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Male Common Yellowthroat<br />
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Tons of other critters too.<br />
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The beach near my parent's house is also good birding, especially for the summer doldrums.<br />
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Black-crowned Night-heron.<br />
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A Piping Plover was hard to pick out in the pebbles.<br />
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There was more Piping Plovers than Semi-palmated Plovers.<br />
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Common Terns are actually common here.<br />
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Oystercatchers are good wherever you are.<br />
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Herring Gull<br />
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I spent a long time looking through the various swallows at the beach. This was a Barn Swallow.<br />
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Yellow Warblers seemed to thrive in all habitats in NY, including the beach.<br />
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After spending an hour trying to photograph a Bank Swallow this is the best shot I came away with. So frustrating, I can't seem to find any Bank Swallows that are willing to sit still.<br />
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Female Indigo Bunting.<br />
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Bird of Paradise<br />
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Chipmunks are plentiful in NY. I miss the little guys.<br />
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Grandpapi - he has a new thing which is shooting video of everything. He would be content shooting video of a leaf blowing in the wind.<br />
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Out of focus but I liked the bokeh.<br />
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Father, Brother, Son.<br />
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This was the day Portugal won the Euro Cup.<br />
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Juvenile Mourning Dove<br />
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The second part of our vacation was spent up in upstate NY, Milford PA and some areas near the NY/NJ border. <br />
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In New Paltz on our 14th wedding anniversary we hiked Minnewaska State park. Absolutely gorgeous. I need to download some photos from my iPhone later and post them but I am being lazy.<br />
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So many young and in this case wet birds as a rain storm had just dumped on us. I thought initially I had an Olive-sided Flycatcher but the tail looks wrong and so it's probably a really wet Phoebe?<br />
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Very dark breast but it might just be an artifact from the wet feathers. Or maybe just a really young bird? Who knows. <br />
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Indigo Bunting<br />
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Turkey Vulture on top of Bonticou Crag.<br />
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At Melissa's parent's house in Milford, PA there was plenty to photograph right in my Mother In Law's garden. My favorite spot was a Crocosmia flower patch with a pretty spruce as background.<br />
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird - I would have absolutely crushed this bird if the light was a bit better.<br />
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Scarlet Tanager female<br />
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Gorgeous George<br />
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Cedar Waxwing<br />
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Widow Skimmer<br />
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Juvenile Tree Swallow?<br />
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Eastern Kingbird<br />
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A great trip and I am surprised I got so many pics despite not birding much. The torture was seeing reports of a photogenic Hudsonian Godwit on the OBX. Hudsonian Godwit is my nemesis bird. I got home Sunday night but I have not seen it reported again and of course I am slammed with work anyway. This morning (Thursday) I did make it to Wrightsville Beach to try for the Pectoral Sandpiper that has been hanging out and I was not disappointed. <br />
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Baby Least Terns still wobbling about.<br />
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Great times.Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3874877366803822162.post-63764996560601201322016-07-04T08:59:00.001-07:002016-07-04T08:59:07.958-07:00It's Raining Least Bitterns (03Jul2016)Yesterday I experienced one of those amazing moments that can only be fully appreciated after getting sub par looks at a species for a number of years and then finally getting amazing extended looks. It was raining Least Bitterns at Cedar Island Marsh yesterday. But first a couple photos from a couple nights ago.<br />
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I went back out to CB State Park to try once again for a photo of a Chuck but we failed miserably and my friend and I got a bit lost trail blazing in the dark following Chuck calls. We barely made it out of the gate before park closure. That would have sucked if we got locked in and had to sleep in our cars until opening in the morning.<br />
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Common Nighthawk<br />
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Saturday morning I got up at 1:30 am and headed to Cedar Island to try for a Barn Owl and Black Rails. I dipped on both but my consolation was maybe even better. Over about two hours at Cedar Island after sun rise, I saw over 30 Least Bitterns!!! This is a bird I have only seen a few times before and very poorly. In some spots I saw 5-6 birds perched in a small area.<br />
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There were other birds to be had too, although it was difficult to stop looking at the Least Bitterns.<br />
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Virginia Rail - the breast was not as richly red as I would have liked but all the other marks were present.<br />
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Presumed juvenile Clapper. Looked like a plucked chicken.<br />
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There was plenty of young birds. Soon these birds will start dispersing so if you want to see them I suggest going soon.<br />
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Seaside Sparrows were everywhere.<br />
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A Northern Harrier was getting hassled by hundreds of blackbirds. We find a couple Harriers over-summering here every year for the past several.<br />
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Presumed Clapper<br />
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These young birds were really cool looking.<br />
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A Common Loon in the drainage canal was a somewhat unexpected sight.<br />
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Hmmmm, Juvenile Clapper?<br />
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What legs!<br />
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Doing an American Bittern impression.<br />
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Down at Cedar Island Ferry Terminal we had the usual mix of birds and one somewhat interesting sighting.<br />
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Gull-billed Tern<br />
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Glossy Ibis<br />
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Here was the interesting find - Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. A juvenile bird.<br />
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Today I drove around locally to see if the Reddish Egret or White-winged Dove were around. The traffic was bad and there was already no parking at WB at 8am so instead I headed to Airlie for a quick walk.<br />
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Tricolored Heron<br />
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Another Yellow-crowned Night-Heron??? What is this world coming to? When it rains it pours.<br />
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Have a great 4th!Jamie Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005419404244927573noreply@blogger.com2