Re: Bird ID question: Sparrows?

2017-08-28 Thread ann sanfedele
White Crowned Sparrow nice little gallery ann On 8/28/2017 12:29 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Are these sparrows? finches? Photographed in Yachats Oregon at Smelt Sands beach. Actually in a garden at the overleaf hotel, next to the path. I think the little brown one might be young, I got a mediocr

Re: Bird ID question: Sparrows?

2017-08-27 Thread Larry Colen
Daniel J. Matyola wrote: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-crowned_Sparrow/id Thanks Dan! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Are these sparrows? finches? Photographed in Yachats Oregon at Smelt Sand

Re: Bird ID question: Sparrows?

2017-08-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-crowned_Sparrow/id Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > Are these sparrows? finches? Photographed in Yachats Oregon at Smelt Sands > beach. Actually in a garden at the overl

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/western_sandpiper/id Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > Marco inspired me to pay the SS Palo Alto a visit this afternoon. While I > was there, there were shedload of little birds

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-23 Thread Jostein Øksne
No idea about the species, but half expected the photos to be made at the gates of dawn. Jostein Den 23. februar 2017 03.34.07 CET, skrev Larry Colen : >Weird > >https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157677089986804 > >Duh, for some reason when I did a cut and paste, I got the ellipsis

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-23 Thread Larry Colen
John wrote: Not weird at all. The first URL has "phot..." instead of "photos". That was obvious, what's weird is how that happened, I might have clipped it out of the facebook link. It's also annoying that they shortened it by making it one character longer than the unshortened version, i

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-23 Thread John
Not weird at all. The first URL has "phot..." instead of "photos". On 2/22/2017 9:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Weird https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157677089986804 Duh, for some reason when I did a cut and paste, I got the ellipsis where they replaces two letters with three dots.

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
I like the second one with three birds in frame. I don't like the shots that include half birds. I recall shooting these on the beach at Venice CA many years ago. Paul via phone > On Feb 22, 2017, at 9:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > Weird > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/721576

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-22 Thread Larry Colen
Weird https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157677089986804 Duh, for some reason when I did a cut and paste, I got the ellipsis where they replaces two letters with three dots. Paul Stenquist wrote: Page not found Paul via phone On Feb 22, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote: M

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
"karlmarks2 hasn't made any photos public yet." Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > Marco inspired me to pay the SS Palo Alto a visit this afternoon. While I > was there, there were shedload of little birds hunting

Re: Bird ID help, Western Sandpiper?

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
Page not found Paul via phone > On Feb 22, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > Marco inspired me to pay the SS Palo Alto a visit this afternoon. While I was > there, there were shedload of little birds hunting for shellfish at low > tide. I quickly grabbed a few frames before serious p

Re: Bird id and songs was PESO: Another bird photo - What is it?

2014-05-18 Thread Ann Sanfedele
If I hd not been so lazy I would have gone to the cornel site myself :-) BTW - for all you birders out there - especially those in the Augusta , Georgia area.. During the masters, it was nice to listen to bird songs - the always recognizeable cardinal, and a few others however .. there was o

Re: bird ID

2004-02-08 Thread Steve Larson
Broad-winged Hawk. Steve Larson Redondo Beach, California > >Can someone ID this guy for me? > > > >http://www.bigdayphoto.com/tom/images/hawk.jpg > > > >tv

Re: bird ID

2004-02-08 Thread Peter Alling
It looks like an immature Red Tail Hawk, but I'm no expert. At 05:02 PM 2/6/04, you wrote: Can someone ID this guy for me? http://www.bigdayphoto.com/tom/images/hawk.jpg tv I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Just relized you had a different shot of our friend the whoseever hawk. Nice shot! (but um, we do need a leeetle more detail to settle identity.) annsan still thinking coopers

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Norm Baugher
I'm guessing teradactyl. Norm tom wrote: Ok, so we're pretty sure it's not a peacock? tv

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Christian Skofteland
duh! what color where the tops of the F*^&$%%^ feathers! ;-) Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: RE: bird ID > Yeah,

RE: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread tom
Yeah, it had some feathers. tv > -Original Message- > From: Christian Skofteland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 7:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bird ID > > did you see his tail when he flew away? ;-) > > Ch

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Christian Skofteland
did you see his tail when he flew away? ;-) Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 5:27 PM Subject: RE: bird ID > -Original Message- >

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
tom wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Ann Sanfedele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > Maybe Tom could invite him/her back > > > > I did, but he hasn't rsvp'd. > > Well, he just showed up again-

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Mark Cassino
At 04:08 AM 2/7/2004 -0500, you wrote: Except that Tom said it was larger than a crow and sharp-shinns are pretty small. Check your field guide again. Red Tails have horizontal bands on the underside of their tails (the red is on top) and a rounded tail. Sharp-shinned have a very squared off tai

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread mike wilson
Hi, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > as you said, Mark, a bit difficult - besides, we > all want it to > be something a tad more interesting than a plain > old red tail :) Not so plain here 8-) Although it is rumoured that escapee Harris' are now breeding in the UK. I've seen one here - but I do live in

RE: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread tom
> -Original Message- > From: Ann Sanfedele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Then there is perception of size to muck it up - THe NGS > mentions maps goshhawks in winter in Tom's area... Coopers > not until Spring (not that the birds read the maps) - though > that was my first guess. > How

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Mark Cassino wrote: > > Nice shot - but a bit hard to ID - how big was it? > > Based on the shape of the tail, the markings on the beak, and the pattern > of the breast feathers my first guess would be a female sharp shinned hawk. > Should of been just under a foot long if that is the case. > >

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
tom wrote: > > Ok, so we're pretty sure it's not a peacock? > > tv You pick up on things quickly, Tom! :) ann

RE: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread ernreed2
> Ok, so we're pretty sure it's not a peacock? > > tv > I'd be willing to rule out hummingbird also. HTH, ERN

RE: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread tom
> -Original Message- > From: Christian Skofteland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Except that Tom said it was larger than a crow and > sharp-shinns are pretty small. Check your field guide again. > Red Tails have horizontal bands on the underside of their > tails (the red is on top) an

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Mark Roberts
Speaking of birds... yesterday as I waled out my front door a bird flew out of the bushes along side my driveway. Nothing unusual about that except that after it gained some altitude and slowed down I could see it was a raptor of some sort. Kind of surprising to see it in the shrubbery here in the

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread frank theriault
My roomate, Karen, checked Sibley's and National Geographic Birds of North America, and she rings in with juvenile female Cooper's. -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Ann Sanfedele <[EMAIL PROT

Re: bird ID

2004-02-07 Thread Christian Skofteland
- Original Message - From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A red tail would not have the bands inside the tail feathers. The length > of the tail in proportion to the body, and the length of the outmost dark > band at the end of the tail in proportion to the tail length really sugge

Re: Fw: Osprey photo, was Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Ann Sanfedele
e - > From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:27 PM > Subject: Osprey photo, was Re: bird ID > > > Photo of an osprey: > > > > > http://groups.msn.com/BillOwensPhotos/shoebox.msnw?act

Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Ann Sanfedele
tom wrote: > > Can someone ID this guy for me? > > http://www.bigdayphoto.com/tom/images/hawk.jpg > > tv I'm ringing in with immature or lady Cooper's only on the basis (versus Sharpie) of no "leggins" that I can see and not a flat a tailtip. What a very lovely shot, Tom! Tell me you didn't ta

Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Hal & Sandra Davis
You are correct! - Sir, a wet one! Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:10 PM Subject: Re: bird ID > Tom, > > Looks a lot like this one, a Red Tailed Hawk that lives near the office. > >

Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Hal & Sandra Davis
This looks like a wet redtail to me. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:10 PM Subject: Re: bird ID > Tom, > > Looks a lot like this one, a Red Tailed Hawk that lives near the office. >

Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Mark Cassino
Nice shot - but a bit hard to ID - how big was it? Based on the shape of the tail, the markings on the beak, and the pattern of the breast feathers my first guess would be a female sharp shinned hawk. Should of been just under a foot long if that is the case. Second guess would be a female Coop

Fw: Osprey photo, was Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Bill Owens
Sent this a couple of hours ago but haven't seen it come through yet. If it has, sorry for the duplicate mail. Bill - Original Message - From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:27 PM Subject: Os

Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread Rfsindg
Tom, Looks a lot like this one, a Red Tailed Hawk that lives near the office. http://pug.komkon.org/02may/rthawk.html Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Can someone ID this guy for me? > > http://www.bigdayphoto.com/tom/images/hawk.jpg > > tv

Re: bird ID

2004-02-06 Thread mike wilson
Hi, tom wrote: > > Can someone ID this guy for me? > > http://www.bigdayphoto.com/tom/images/hawk.jpg I'm not an expert on North american raptors by any stretch of the imagination but I've been having a trawl. Sharp-shinned hawk looks to be a possibility http://www.hawkmountain.org/education/s