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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:42 PM
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So who else found a rare bird today???
Yes folks, it's true.

Xema found a county record today.

Tell all your friends.
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:43 PM
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1. Congratulations!
I myself bounced a sparrow off the grill of my vehicle.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:44 PM
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3. Thanks!
What kind of sparrow?

Did you keep it?
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:47 PM
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5. A small, gray sparrow.
Beyond that it became a reddish blur.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:49 PM
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7. Heinous
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 04:55 PM
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23. I felt bad for it.
But it flew right out in front of me.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:44 PM
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2. I read about people who do
Just finished _The Devil's Teeth_ a book about the Farallon Islands. It was pretty good.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:46 PM
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4. I'll have to look for that one
Who wrote it?

Anyone from Point Reyes Bird Observatory mentioned?
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:48 PM
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6. Author is Susan Casey
and half the people in the book are from the PBRO, the shark observations there started out as something of a side project after breeding season.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:50 PM
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8. I met Peter Pyle at a party
I was very rude to his son. :(
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:51 PM
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10. He figures prominently in the book nt
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:52 PM
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11. Peter Pyle is God.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:51 PM
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9. My dear Xema......
So....are we to languish and not know which bird you found today?

:hug:

And, oh....BTW: CONGRATULATIONS, SWEETIE! :toast:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:55 PM
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12. Sent PM
And thanks! :toast:
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 11:57 PM
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13. maybe Rita Cosby will devote a show on it
I hear that Aruba is starting to get boring. :popcorn:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:08 AM
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14. Hey, while you were sitting on your ass in your basement office
obsessing over your stapler, some of us were not only getting Fresh Air and Excercise, but also furthering the cause of Science.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 01:08 AM
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18. rub it in why dont ya
x(
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 10:36 AM
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19. I think I just did
:bounce:
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:25 AM
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15. Ooh! What kind of bird was it?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:43 AM
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16. Maybe not rare, but very cool for me...
A breeding pair of Swainson's Hawks, and last years offspring, moved into the Bunya-Bunya tree across the street from my house (my front porch makes an ideal viewing platform). Mom and Dad are doing the 'big nasty' every day so I suspect we may have new arrivials in a month or so. Crows have tried to run them off to no avail. Windy days are fun watching the hawks fly like kites in the sky. Oh, the same tree also has a breeding pair of Barn Owls so we have something going both day and night.

XemaSab, please PM me on your special find.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:49 AM
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17. So what was your bird?
I saw a couple grasshopper sparrows on Sunday. I was surprised-not because they were there but because I knew what they were after all this time.
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:06 PM
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20. Congrats!.....no rare birds here, but...
...I watched a Raven and a sub-adult Bald Eagle have, what appeared to be, a fairly heated conversation. The Raven was pretty aggressive and got in the eagles face. The Eagle began to lose it's cool and the raven chose to remove itself from the situation.

Also saw a pair of Trumpeter Swans and the first Red Necked Grebe of the season.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:13 PM
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21. Oh, and right before I found the Good Bird
I was scanning out over a wet meadow and I saw a HUGH bird... I couldn't tell what the hell it was... HUGH and black with a red patch on the wing. Of course my mind leapt to Harris' Hawk, but it was too big, so I ran to the car and got the Leica scope, and it turned out to be a big juvie Bald Eagle with a big red wing tag that said 37.

Good times.
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 12:37 PM
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22. I always feel bad for...
Edited on Thu May-04-06 12:38 PM by greendog
...tagged, banded, and collared animals. Last year I saw a Trumpeter Swan with big collar around it's neck (#OT5), a matching band around its right ankle, and and a different type of band on it's left ankle.

BTW, I'm curious about your "good bird".
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