Birdwatchers Forum

Forum Post: Pinnated Bittern?

DaveYuhas — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:45:00 GMT

Hi - I'm trying to decide whether the bird in the photo is a Pinnated Bittern or a Bare-Throated Tiger-Heron. I've never seen either one prior to seeing the bird in question. I found it under a bridge at Boca Paila, near Tulum, Mexico about a week ago. When I first spotted the bird, there was another one with it but it flew off and didn't return. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Forum Post: Short animated GIF of Waxwing eating a berry

bobvt — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:20:00 GMT

I'm not a big fan of animated GIFs, sorry if anyone finds this irritating, but I thought it looked kind of cool.

I was taking another look at the images from a few days ago when I saw the Bohemian Waxwings, and I noticed I had a nice sequence, so I put them together.

bob

Wasn't showing up, so I added a link: Bohemian Waxwing eating berry

Forum Post: RE: Three Baby Red Tails in the Nest !!!

snowbird — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:18:00 GMT

We headed out to check the eagle nest to the north yesterday. One adult eagle was perched in the pine tree next to the nest. The other two pines next to the nesting tree aren't looking any better with 1/4 of the tree tops holding on to brown needles. Don't know what to think about pine trees disease, drought, maybe both?

We saw the other eagle mate fly by us on up the creek & watched it land on a dead tree. We caught up to it & it had a rabbit it was eating. On the way there one of the dogs scared up a hen turkey & she flew up & out of the valley.

There were lots of deer playing hide & seek. Deer season starts this weekend. There were lots of small & large trees with bark rubbed off. Good sign of bucks.

We checked out the Great Blue Heron trees, counted nests, dead trees, downed trees with nests on ground, & living trees with nests in them. We counted 25 standing nests. We also saw one red tail hawk early on & it has a nest on the far end of the Heron Colony.

It made for a nice day with plenty of busy woodpeckers flying around in the woods & squirrels chattering.

Forum Post: RE: Bob from VT

Photo601 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:12:00 GMT

Thanks I've signed up & get daily emails for NY and NJ. It's great thanks again

Forum Post: RE: Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge - Swanton, VT

Photo601 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:16:00 GMT

Has anyone replied yet?

Forum Post: Bohemian Waxwings in my backyard this morning

bobvt — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:21:00 GMT

It's been getting colder and snowed a couple inches last night here in Vermont. It was still snowing around 10am when I saw a flock of birds land in the trees out back. I thought they were Starlings, but after grabbing my camera and getting a closer look... my first Bohemian Waxwings!!! Cedar Waxwings are common around here, but I've never seen Bohemians before today. I took lots of pics.

You can see the snow/ice on this one's beak.

Forum Post: RE: Golden-winged Warbler or Hybrid?

bobvt — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:47:00 GMT

Thanks Eric. This is the first one I ever saw, and I never saw it again. Hopefully, they'll be back next year.

bob

Forum Post: RE: Mourning Warbler

ergc — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:47:00 GMT

To subscribe for regional alerts of rare bird sightings or birds of interest on eBird, you must sign in and go to the 'My eBird' tab. Here, one of the last options on the right column says 'Manage my Alerts'. You can use the options on that page to get alerts on a county/state level.

Eric

Forum Post: Help for a Birdwatching School Project

Chigdon — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:45:00 GMT

Hello!

I'm a graduate student at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and I need your help!

We're creating an online photo-sharing tool for a local national wildlife refuge. I need to find out a little more about how birdwatchers use certain online tools.

This survey will take less than a minute to complete and it would help our project and the birdwatching community in the Portland area.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YGZZ5HN

Thank you!

Craig Higdon

Forum Post: BirdingIsFun.com!

rkmorten — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:24:00 GMT

I started blogging about birds in my neighborhood. Fellow birds expressed interest and I expanded it to include the entire state of Idaho. Then a move out of state prompted me to delimit my bird blog geographically and thus was born BirdingIsFun.com.

It is now a multi-author birding blog featuring about 30 birders and photographers with new content daily. We emphasize the "fun" aspect of birding and work hard capture the amazement, wonder, and beauty of the birds. We feature regular reviews of birding products, books, optics, and apps.

We'd love to have you as a regular visitor to our website!

Forum Post: Pine boughs???

tracijoy — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:35:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm very new to this so if I ask a question that seems "dumb" please forgive me. On my balcony I get many beautiful songbirds at my feeders. Cardinals, chickadees, purple finches, blue-jays, sparrows... and more. My feeder is always active.

Well, last night I put some real pine boughs out on the balcony and near the feeders for decoration. I thought the birds would love them but it has been exceptionally quiet since I have done this. Will they NOT come back? Is it a territorial thing?? Should I take them down? I thought they would love it for winter.

Any advice is appreciated. I miss my birds but I would like to leave them up. Will they come back around?

Thanks...

Traci

Forum Post: Returning to the forum

ward131 — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:44:00 GMT

Well I have been gone for a very long time , so it will take some time to get familiar with the changes.

Just one question.......What bird did you see today?

Forum Post: New limits to photo gallery submissions

Matt Mendenhall — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:57:00 GMT

Hello friends,

Following the suggestion of a contributor to our galleries, we have decided to limit to three the number of photos that each photographer can upload to each gallery per day. We're doing this with the goal that each new photo posted will receive many more views than they are currently receiving. And we think that it will improve the viewing experience of site visitors by encouraging contributors to submit only their best work.

If you have comments on this change, feel free to share them below or by emailing me at mmendenhall@madavor.com.

Thanks for your cooperation! --Matt

Forum Post: RE: Mourning Warbler

Flo_TX — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:48:00 GMT

I think Mourning Warblers have darker heads. This is probably a Nashville Warbler.

Forum Post: Unidentified Bird

cleanin lady — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:10:00 GMT

This photo was taken in west central Illinois. Thought it was too large for a goldfinch. Any ideas?(Please visit the site to view this file)

Forum Post: RE: Our galleries are up to date

GG's Birds — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:59:00 GMT

Hi, Some pictures I submitted were posted twice. Can I go in and delete the duplicates? Also, the photo of the day has been the same for some time. Will this be corrected soon?

Forum Post: Bird Hobbies

JPD — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:14:00 GMT

Hello from John near Oak Hammock Marsh Manitoba, Canada. I am retired and some of my hobbies are feeding birds, bird watching and some digital photography. Most of my photograhy is done of birds I have attracted by feeding them.This is my first time on this forum and looking forward to participate.

Forum Post: Hai!

Faraaz — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:39:00 GMT

Hello all,

I am a fairly new birder - I started off as primarily a photographer with an interest in wildlife in general. I started shooting birds as they were the most accessible 'wildlife' I could've found. And I've become hooked. Totally. Haha. I now have a "life list" of about 250, and the more I see, the more I want to see!

I live in Trinidad, in the Caribbean. Feel free to ask me anything about visiting/birding here!

Cheers!

Forum Post: Red-tailed Hawk on local news

bobvt — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:40:00 GMT

The local news station did a short report (less than 3 minutes) on red-tailed hawks. They have a few close up shots in the video that are nice. Sorry, I can't figure out how to skip past the 15 second commercial that displays before the video.

bob

WCAX news report on red-tailed hawks

Forum Post: RE: Common Cuckoo (formerly European Cuckoo) in Santa Cruz county California - UPDATE

Matt Mendenhall — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:39:00 GMT

thanks for your reports about this bird, Joe. What a great find!