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
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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
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