Continuing at Union Station. I arrived at 6:30PM and the owl appeared at 7:05 sitting on atop the building to the left. It stayed in that spot for just over 2 hours mostly preening and keeping watch. Just after 9PM she put on a great hunting exhibition chasing birds up and down the facade for 10-15 mins before settling back in on one of the statutes on the facade.
Heard hooting, seen in photo perched on saguaro during Aurora borealis that came through much farther south than perhaps ever before.
Previous game camera trigger of a goshawk 30 minutes before, bookended by marten triggers. Then some drama! A goshawk appears from the left, lands briefly, and then lifts off again to meet a second goshawk in a brief tussle in the air. The birds are within view of the camera over the course of 35 seconds, with one eventually flying off with the other remaining on the ground, slightly off-camera to the lower right. Exciting observation! @caiwatha
Getting some water to drink from the icy creek.
The first time I had ever seen this, i videoed the entire event as well from entry to exit. It was as if this species swims all the time. I sent it to a frogmouth expert and she had never seen that before. The bird chose to swim and flew away very easily after its swim. There appeared to be no explanation for the bird swimming as it was not particularly hot or anything unusual.
hunting from nearby tree, about 10:30am, looking intently down at snow, then landed and mantled for a couple of minutes, burying its head into the snow several times before flying off in the opposite direction
Near paddle boats.
Karawanken-Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark
Flew off after an encounter with the patio window.
It should be a yellow-bellied sapsucker, but please double check.
Baltimore convention Center, alcove of death
1 west Pratt street
Adult toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus) with leucism
Address: Unión de Guápiles, Puerto Limón, Costa Rica
Exact coordinates: 10.232897 N, -83.868262W
Fecha: 2019/09/18 (11:20 am)
Credits: Carlos Bolaños
Note: for more information you can contact me:
Dr. Óscar M. Chaves
email: ochaba@gmail.com
Location accurate. Impressive watching these terns dive-bombing!
Kayak daytrip from West Lake to the Lungs. I am going to post a ton of red mangrove observations because I was using my phone's geotagging of photos to have a nice log of my track and was too busy paddling to do a proper bioblitz. Some birds and other stuff mixed in.
Other observations (will be a few days before I finish all of them):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.239682028865975&nelng=-80.62550471224715&on=2021-01-03&place_id=any&swlat=25.15425179059776&swlng=-80.9224788734213&user_id=joemdo&verifiable=any
note white patch on neck
The last three photos are blurry due to his constant movement while tapping on the window.
Captured in quick moving murky water moving from the flooded areas back into the river via a small channel.
Red-winged Blackbird
near Stewardson, Illinois
1 June 1989
I'm posting this record just for the general interest of a Red-winged Blackbird with one white wing. Whether a partial albino, or a partial leucistic bird, I'm not sure. A local farmer told my wife and me that this bird had been on his farm for three summers. The bird left in the fall with the other Red-wingeds and came back in the spring. I watched it for about 30 minutes. It vocalized like any other Red-winged BB and interacted with other Red-wingeds normally. It was pretty flashy to see in flight, however. Three shots posted. These images scanned from old color slides.
Caught and banded for the ongoing American Kestrel Project at UNT. Handling done by trained and permitted scientists. Banded male 9/D
Juvenile
I guess it's an an individual that escaped from captivity with albinism. Maybe a Mandarin Duck hybrid.
I've never seen or heard of a nearly all black kingfisher. Is it juvenile? A known variant? A different species?
Sora wading around the mud before sunset
Small female (likely) with wide V blaze.
Interesting leucistic pattern
It is the high pitch "teacher teacher" sound
A native treefrog taking advantage of the insect-attracting pitcher plants in my greenhouse.
Two larvae were found in a stream in a mix of grassland and pine-oak forest.
Fieldwork conducted under research permit to GHRH with funding provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, Natural Resource Canada’s Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP), and Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR).
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Came in to nectar on my Night-blooming Jasmine.
One of two adults present.
Host plants are grape, Ampelopsis and Virginia creeper. I have all three in my yard.
Eumorpha pandorus - Pandorus Sphinx - Hodges#7859, caterpillar; White Oaks; 8/8/15
A baby Sandpiper walks along the top of an old seawall, with mother nearby.