A few bird photo's

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Well, we are not sure if the squirrel was alive or a roadkill.

[DLJeff]

Hope the hurricane didn't effect you too badly.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

The hurricane went up the West side or Gulf side of Florida and we are on the East side so we got a little wind and rain.

I guess it has been terrible for the southeast with lots of serious flooding.


Hurricanes can make landfall from Texas to New York.

[Woodman]

I always think of Cardinals as eastern birds...which is why I was shocked when I saw them in Baja.

[DLJeff]

I always think of Cardinals as eastern birds...which is why I was shocked when I saw them in Baja.

I didn't know they ranged all the way down there either. Here's the distribution map for Northern Cardinals from Cornell Ornithology and it does indicate they range onto Baja.


The very closely related Pyrrhuloxia is also in the SW USA and northern Mexico and Baja. While it looks the same size and shape, it's never all-over red. Can be mistaken for female northern cardinals though.

Learned something new today so I can zone out now.

[DLJeff]

A couple shots from a Mexico trip last week.








Stupid HUrricane Milton blew us off the water on day 2 and muddied up the water for quite a ways so we had to make some long runs to find clean water. Still managed some snook, bonefish, permit, snappers for ceviche. I don't know if anyone landed a tarpon tho. They were sticking pretty far back in the mangroves. As a group I think we boated something around 14-15 permit, no big ones tho.

[DLJeff]

This Cooper's Hawk perched in our ghost juniper out back for quite awhile this morning. I snuck out the back doo but when I got to the corner of the house he got nervous and took off a few moments later. Still managed a couple decent shots.

[John H]

Sharp red eye on that bird. The house can be a pretty good blind but birds are pretty good at spotting me and I am rarely able to sneak up on them. I don’t see many Coopers here. Lots of red shoulders, red tails and kestrels but not too many Coopers.

[DLJeff]

We get mostly sharped-shinned and Coopers and they're identical except in size. The sharpies are about half the size of a Cooper's. Here's a couple from the Agua Boa trip I just got back from.


Amazon kingfisher


Black vultures that came close during lunch


Cocoi heron nicely silhouetted, Amazon version of our great blue heron


Glossy ibis flying


Jabiru

[DLJeff]

Here's a couple more....


Sunbittern, normally a very skittish bird but this one came into our lunch spot to feed


He caught a minnow 9 times out of 10


Orange-winged amazon (parrot)

I know the last two aren't birds, but you'll get over it.


Tapir


Capybara