mickeyobe
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 18, 2007 17:40:31 GMT -5
We get cedar waxwings here in Toronto. They are beautiful "streamlined" birds that, except for their colour look exactly like the cardinals. The cardinals are just starting their very distinctive spring mating songs. A heartening sound after a long snowy winter. OK. Short and snowy. Lovely pictures. The Waxwings and the robin and the mooning - is that a cormorant?
Mickey
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 18, 2007 17:55:36 GMT -5
Wayne, great robin shot
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Post by doubs43 on Mar 18, 2007 18:33:18 GMT -5
"HEY!! Don't hog it all!" Two swans. Walker
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Post by kiev4a on Mar 18, 2007 21:49:59 GMT -5
Thanks on the robin. We don't have cardinals or wax wings in this part of the country. But our neighborhood is robin central. It's the highest pont in this part of the valley and the Robins seem to like to nest on high ground.
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 20, 2007 17:15:39 GMT -5
Woodpecker DReb Sigma 400 f5.6 handheld
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Post by SidW on Mar 20, 2007 17:58:44 GMT -5
Nesting Guillemots, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland (North America: common murre). This was June 2006. EOS 20D, Tokina 400mm/5.6, 800/11
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Post by lulalake on Mar 22, 2007 10:01:50 GMT -5
Hopalong and the Top of the Fence gang Jules Sony F828, infrared shot, R72 filter. Port Aransas, Texas, WHERE I'M GOING THIS WEEKEND!! Woo Hoo!!
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Post by John Parry on Mar 22, 2007 15:16:30 GMT -5
Sid - Rathlin's a special place. Would like to see more pictures from those you took there.
Jules - You got one! Well done!
Regards - John
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 24, 2007 8:55:50 GMT -5
She was gathering nesting material DReb Sigma 400 f5.6
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Post by SidW on Mar 24, 2007 17:08:10 GMT -5
Sounds like you know Rathlin Island, John. For the rest of you, it's a few miles off the north coast of Ireland, maybe 10 miles or so in diameter (ignoring its real shape and real tape measures). Some very high rocky cliffs at the NW corner, halfway down there's a viewing platform at the lighthouse, usually manned by an RSPB warden with a few telescopes. What you mainly see nesting is guillemots (common murre), puffins (mostly at some distance across these cliffs), fulmars (northern fulmar), kittiwakes (black-legged kittiwake). If you scrutinise each guillemot closely you find one or two are razorbills (razor-billed auk). Names in brackets are north American (where I can verify them).
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Post by SidW on Mar 24, 2007 17:41:59 GMT -5
Maybe I'm cheating, I've had this Rathlin shot on a different thread already. Anyway, fulmars: These were on a ledge right beside the lighthouse platform, so distance wasn't a problem. John, you can just see the afterdeck of a guillemot too.
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Post by SidW on Mar 24, 2007 17:51:33 GMT -5
More guillemots from Rathlin Island.
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Post by majicman on Apr 9, 2007 20:56:54 GMT -5
Diner time What? Hey buddy can you spare a grape?
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Post by kiev4a on Apr 10, 2007 11:23:54 GMT -5
Hopalong and the Top of the Fence gang Jules Sony F828, infrared shot, R72 filter. Port Aransas, Texas, WHERE I'M GOING THIS WEEKEND!! Woo Hoo!!That's a great gull shot!
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Post by SidW on Jul 14, 2007 18:21:06 GMT -5
Bempton cliffs, Yorkshire, England (just south of Scarborough on the North Sea) Young razorbills (Alca torda) waiting for dinner. These are north Atlantic birds, so they might also be known alomg the Atlantic coast of North America, possibly under some other name. EOS 33 (same as 30 but no eye tracking), Tokina AF 400mm/5.6, Kodachrome 200. July 2004.
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