Killdeer
Got any bird pics?
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Killdeer
This is a long distance photo of an uncommon Common Teal serenely paddling about on the wrong continent. A Eurasian bird, this one apparently took a left turn in Siberia or the Aleutians and then migrated down to the mid-Willamette valley last year. At first glance it appears to be a Green Winged Teal, but the heavy white line under the eye, the lack of a white vertical bar on the edge of the breast, and the white horizontal stripe at the top of the side differentiates this from a greenie. The Eurasian teal is a subspecies of Green Winged.
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Photo six is a pair of Marbled murrelets near the LeConte glacier. After doing five seasons of MAMU research in WA, seeing them all over the place in SE AK was very refreshing.
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153 likes, 17 comments - adamcu280 on May 25, 2022: "We just wrapped up our training cruise with @lindbladexp and I gotta say it was an honor to be am..."
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I really am enjoying this thread: such great photographs. Yesterday morning my wife and I spotted the first quail brood of the year. Eleven little guys smaller than my thumb running around the garden. Seeing them makes me wish I had a camera capable of capturing their image.
Man I would love a job doing some of the stuff you seem to do Adam- what's the role you are training for there- like a ship board naturalist/jack of all trades?Photo six is a pair of Marbled murrelets near the LeConte glacier. After doing five seasons of MAMU research in WA, seeing them all over the place in SE AK was very refreshing.
Adam U on Instagram: "We just wrapped up our training cruise with @lindbladexp and I gotta say it was an honor to be amongst such an amazing crew of photographers, naturalists, officers, deckhands, stewards, and everyone else involved. My mind hasn't
153 likes, 17 comments - adamcu280 on May 25, 2022: "We just wrapped up our training cruise with @lindbladexp and I gotta say it was an honor to be am..."
EmergingFisher
Life of the Party
Yep! I'm currently a naturalist but I'll hopefully add "Certified Photo Instructor" and Zodiac driver (for staff, not guests as my many years on research vessels apparently don't count towards a USCG license) at some point as well.
No. 6 is a Black Oystercatcher in Endicott Arm.
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No. 1 is the unofficial "bird" of Alaska.
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Stumbled on to this Spruce Grouse in YNP while off trail in the upper Lamar. She was sheparding a chick in the tall grass.
This Blue Heron was shadowing an angler on a Long Boat Key beach a few weeks ago. He was catching small whiting on shrimp in the surf and tossing them to the heron. It was too full to move much so got a good close shot.
mr.badexample
Smolt
I think it's a song sparrow, we have multiple nests in our yard.
I'm sure you've mentioned this before, but what's your camera setup here? I'm really diggin' the male yellow warbler photo.From today's float:
Red wing blackbird
Grey Catbird (I think)
Male Yellow Warbler
what kind of song did that sparrow make? That's always a dead giveaway. At one point in my life I was pretty good at identifying our local birds by their song (to a point where my wife would be like, "how the hell did you hear that!?" as we'd be driving down near Malheur with the windows down as I'd be calling out the names of the birds I was hearing while attempting to describe to her how they sounded. Admittedly I'm waaaay out of practice though.
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