At the end of the Audubon article-- which has the winning photos only--it says "SEE the TOP 100" and it refers to the Audubon website. So there must be another 70-80 images hidden somewhere on the site. (in addn to the gallery links below.)
Has anyone spent the time to try to find them? Maybe Audubon has changed the website since I wasted so much time. If anyone knows how to access the Top 100, can you let the rest of us know?? and speaking of 'wasting' time, I spent 3-4 hours yest and today driving the farmland roads of Washington Co. looking for snow buntings, horned larks, longspurs, or anything else that flies and did not see any of the winter emberizids. Actually, I should think of it as "relaxing" w/o doing hourswork or watching football, but it would have been rewarding to see something. Both days I saw a flock of ~200 mallards settling into corn stubble fields. (I did not pull over on the highwy) I never even unpacked my camera gear. If I was drivng the county roads of NE KS, I would have seen flocks of several sparrow spp, shrikes, meadowlarks, bluebirds, 1000's of RWBLs, kestrels, and maybe a prairie falcon or two. Last wkend I drove the North Unit and the South Unit of CAWMA and saw 2 bluejays and 2 chickadees. A few people have mentioned there are few birds out there--- due to warm temps and now snow. Is this the consensus for this winter so far? Is there a reliable place to see SNBUs in the S part of the state? Gordon Andersson St Paul _____ From: G Andersson [mailto:gpanders...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:13 PM To: 'MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU' Subject: 3rd annual Audubon magazine photo contest The Jan-Feb 2012 issue of Audubon includes selected photos of the latest contest. (not as big or as longterm as the NWF contest) 1700 people submitted. In two different places in the magazine it says that you can see more of their favorite photos (of 1000's) by going to audubonmagazine.org. Well, I have spent about an hour trying to find more of the photos. There are only 8 photos in the main gallery on the home page--- less than in the magazine. But with persistence and luck I found 3 different galleries. Each has 10 or so photos. . I was prepared to write 1) 2) 3) 4) steps to find these, but I cannot reconstruct the pathway. I did copy the link for each one. I hope these links open for you. There are some spectacular images here. Unfortunately, only the 8 species in the main gallery are identified. There is some tech photo info in the magazine and some description of picture-taking there that is not on the website. For example the loon and fish picture taken at Moose Lake near Ely was taken with a film camera. that's right. the best loon photo I have ever seen. He spent 5 weekends with the loon family. All birds all the time. http://www.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/it-takes-two http://www.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/flight-plan http://www.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/balance Gordon Andersson St Paul ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
