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[Lava Lamp]

Saw some stuff I just couldn't catch, but here's one I could...

[Lava Lamp]

Poor exposure on the fly, but kinda liked the result.

[Lava Lamp]

I don't remember seeing one of these in the thread.

[paulnj]

Cardinal, turkey vulture(I think) and an anhinga


I am still trying to find the other posts from today

EDIT....

Seems the last 3 or 4 reply emails I recieved were for posts that I replied to 5 days ago

hehehe.... the server burped

[Lava Lamp]

Cardinal, turkey vulture(I think) and an anhinga


I am still trying to find the other posts from today

EDIT....

Seems the last 3 or 4 reply emails I recieved were for posts that I replied to 5 days ago

hehehe.... the server burped

I wonder if this big thread is making it burp. You're now #1 in replies and #2 in views behind a list o photography websites. You ned about 1,400 more views to catch it.

[paulnj]

Actually it was 3 different threads, not just this one ;)

1400? WE got them now

[JSPhoto]

1401....?

Nothing special, just one I like.... it was one of those few days I got up earlier than noon

[paulnj]

NICE image! .......

canada geese ;)

[Mike T]

This one is from July 31, I was looking through some past shots since the weather has been a bit wet to get out.
Mike

[paulnj]

fledgling sparrows are VERY hard! , but I think this is a song sparrow from the chest markings.

Wet you say..... I drove through 3 feet of water to get home last night..... the river crested 6 hours later I bet ;) I have 32 inch tires and my ranger sits VERY high for a stock truck(it came with 31.7 inch tires or 265/70/15). After hitting that "puddle" at 35 MPH(a good 300 feet of driving) , I had another 20-24 inch puddle with a acord , a elantra and a eclipse spider DEAD in the water in front of my road. I zig zagged through and called it a night ;)

[Chunk]

Wet you say..... I drove through 3 feet of water to get home last night..... the river crested 6 hours later I bet ;) I have 32 inch tires and my ranger sits VERY high for a stock truck(it came with 31.7 inch tires or 265/70/15). After hitting that "puddle" at 35 MPH(a good 300 feet of driving) , I had another 20-24 inch puddle with a acord , a elantra and a eclipse spider DEAD in the water in front of my road. I zig zagged through and called it a night ;)

Glad you made it home OK. It was nice along Fontana Lake in North Carolina where I took this shot. Have you had any of these in your bird thread yet? Sorry for the lack of detail, but it was handheld at 12x zoom from far away. Thank goodness for image stabalization.

[paulnj]

You go Chunk!

That is actually pretty close for a belted kingfisher. I have spent hours trying to photograph them with mediocre results. Besides finding a nest hole in the bank and waiting(in breeding season), they are very hard to get close to.

[mjs1973]

You go Chunk!

That is actually pretty close for a belted kingfisher. I have spent hours trying to photograph them with mediocre results. Besides finding a nest hole in the bank and waiting(in breeding season), they are very hard to get close to.

Hey, thanks to this thread, I knew that was a kingfisher!!!! Ok, I didn't know it was a BELTED kingfisher, but I did learn something!!!

Paul, have you ever heard of Stan Tekiela? I heard him on the radio talking about birds the other day. Looks like he has authored lots of birding field guides, as well as guides for mamals, amphibians and plants. He's also a wildlife photographer.

[Lava Lamp]

Been out a few times with no bird results. Saw two sandhill cranes off I4, but didn't have my camera.

[paulnj]

Between work and rain I haven't been out in over 2 weeks myself! MAYBE thursday(my next day off) will be productive?

I did see a young goshawk(very rare find) today while driving to work though

[paulnj]

No, I have never heard of him honestly, but It seems he wrote a book on NJ birds that I have never seen ANYWHERE.

Here is a quote from the site selling his NJ book.....

122 species
(only New Jersey birds!)


QUITE FUNNY, as I have seen 275+ species in NJ alone ;)

The world series of birding (24 hour birding contest on may 15th every year) has teams finding 220 species state wide in one day and teams getting 170 in a county alone!

[Audible]

Guess who is building a nest!!

[paulnj]

Well .....

It isn't truely building a nest by that plumage ;)

Adult non breeding plumage Cattle Egret .

Nice image

[bmwraycr]

Hello there,
First post to this site. Lots of great shots.
Here is a couple of shots during whale watching cruise on Bay of Fundy this summer.

[paulnj]

Welcome to the site!

I do believe those images are of a greater shearwater ;)

[Aaron]

Tell me what this one is? It has just showed up in my backyard in Texas (close ot Waco), and spent a couple of days.

[paulnj]

It looks like a long billed thrasher to me at first glance! They live year round ONLY(in the US) in the rio grande valley.

It very well may be a dark Brown Thrasher with orange eyes though.Brown thrashers have yellow eyes usually ;)

I must go with ODD looking brown thrasher though, because too many thing point to that over LB Thrasher.

[Aaron]

It looks like a long billed thrasher to me at first glance! They live year round ONLY(in the US) in the rio grande valley.

It very well may be a dark Brown Thrasher with orange eyes though.Brown thrashers have yellow eyes usually ;)

I must go with ODD looking brown thrasher though, because too many thing point to that over LB Thrasher.

Thanks Paul - I had no idea - it would be a bit far north for it to have come from the Rio Grande Valley - it would be about4 450 miles out of its usual territory - however with all our storms lately maybe the poor thing was looking for a little peace and quiet!

[paulnj]

Thanks Paul - I had no idea - it would be a bit far north for it to have come from the Rio Grande Valley - it would be about4 450 miles out of its usual territory - however with all our storms lately maybe the poor thing was looking for a little peace and quiet!

Aaron,

This bird , though it looks like the rare mexican Long billed thrasher, is indeed just a nontypical Brown thrasher which should be migrating into your area(you are at the northern wintering range in texas)


To show you how close these two species look..

Long-billed Thrasher
http://www.birdsasart.com/long-billed%20thrasher.jpg

Brown Thrasher
http://www.kidwings.com/localbirds/brownthrasher/1.JPG

http://www.kegressy.com/Songbirds_Br...er__Guelph.jpg

[Aaron]

Aaron,

This bird , though it looks like the rare mexican Long billed thrasher, is indeed just a nontypical Brown thrasher which should be migrating into your area(you are at the northern wintering range in texas)


To show you how close these two species look..

Long-billed Thrasher
http://www.birdsasart.com/long-billed%20thrasher.jpg

Brown Thrasher
http://www.kidwings.com/localbirds/brownthrasher/1.JPG

http://www.kegressy.com/Songbirds_Br...er__Guelph.jpg

Wow, talking about birds of a feather - it is still hard to tell the difference even when they are side by side. Thanks again Paul it has been an interesting learning experience, another forum I'm on on Birding definitely agrees with your first choice of it being a Brown Thresher -- I'm having a lot of fun photographing and learning the various birds of my back yard -- I guess one just has to get older to slow down and look at what is around them!