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Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus), East Point, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S89184462
The brush cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus) is a member of the cuckoo family.
The brush cuckoo is native to Malesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and northern and eastern Australia. It is a grey-brown bird with a buff breast. Its call is a familiar sound of the Australian bush.
Source: Wikipedia
Greater secondary coverts……check!
Lesser secondary coverts……check!
Median secondary coverts……check!
Greater primary coverts……check!!
All in order and ready for departure. Another inspection on the bayou provided by this adult Tri-colored Heron. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.
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Jacky Winter (Microeca fascinans), Bushells Lagoon, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S139525967
Small Australian robin, gray-brown above and pale below; often swings tail side to side when perched. Dark tail with prominent white outer tail feathers, absent in similar Kimberley subspecies of Lemon-bellied Flycatcher. Female Hooded Robin similar but with darker wing showing pale panels. Female Golden Whistler much larger and plumper, with a thick bill and yellow lower belly. Usually in pairs in open woodlands, where it perches prominently, often on stumps and posts. Hunts by plucking prey from the ground, in typical Australian robin style.
Source: Ebird
The flight crew of "Speedbird 92" was busy completing their preflight checklist prior to pushing back from Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was the inaugural departure of an Airbus A350-1000 from CYYZ. The aircraft, G-XWBB (serial number 340), was delivered to British Airways Plc only 12 days earlier on September 19.
The photography checklist for Serengeti safaris makes much ado about the “Big 5″… shorthand for the 5 animals which, for some reason, are… well, the victims of photo safaris, I guess. Better than the old days, when they were the victims of another kind of shooting... (more on blog... )
Sony NEX-7 | adapter + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens
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A Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava) on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. Avadavats are lowland birds, and a while a few birds have had a population in the Kathmandu Valley, they have not been seen here in many years due to habitat destruction. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to find six of them in a stretch of tall grass near my house. I used this angle to show how the avadavats in the valley are being threatened by the ever growing urbanization. #notgoneyet
eBird: ebird.org/checklist/S62519274
Website: www.ianhearn.com/
Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), Workington Harbour, Cumbria, England
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S287468407
Plump, rock-loving shorebird with slightly droopy bill. Most often seen in nonbreeding plumage, which is fairly dark gray with spotted underparts. Namesake purple sheen (mostly on back, scapulars, and tertials) only visible at close distance in good light. Legs and base of bill usually bright orange. Messy-looking breeding plumage is darker and more heavily marked, with limited rusty tones on upperparts. Largely inaccessible breeding range on high Arctic tundra; most often seen in northern Europe, Spitsbergen, and Iceland. Winters at slightly lower latitudes, regularly south to the mid-Atlantic region in North America and the Iberian Peninsula in Europe; found in flocks on rocky coastlines and jetties pounded by heavy surf.
Source: Ebird
Pool resurfacing finished
Pool filled
Temps over 100
High Spot to jump from
and an suspecting swimmer who yells Come On In
CANNONBALL!
View quietly lounging in the pool
for
Our Daily Challenge | Come On In
Maned Duck (Chenonetta jubata), Pughs Lagoon, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S108545045
The Australian wood duck, maned duck or maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia. It is the only living species in the genus Chenonetta.
Source: Wikipedia
Arachnids from the order Opiliones are commonly called harvestmen, harvest spiders, shepherd spiders, or daddy-long-legs (not to be confused with Pholcidae). In Latin, opilio refers to "shepherd". In England, they were called harvestmen because of a superstitious belief that there will be a bad harvest that year if one was killed.
Read more at Harvestmen: Opiliones Checklist
Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava), Port Denarau, Fiji
Ebird checklist:
Strikingly pretty small finch. Males are largely red and covered in white spots with dark wings and tail. Females are gray with a rufous rump. Both sexes have a red beak. Gives a very musical song a high "teei" call. Found in grassy areas close to water and often near human habitation, particularly areas with wet rice paddies.
Source: Ebird
My Checklist for taking Tillie's Christmas pic
1- Santa Hat $9.99
3- Christmas ball ornaments $5.97
1 festive red bandana 7.99
Having snow falling and the dog dip her muzzle into the fresh snow right before taking Christmas picture.... Priceless!! :) Commenting not necessary as I have the other one I uploaded just the other day. I had taken a few snaps of her (I never just take one shot of anything!!) lol!! All the best to you during this Holiday Season
"Red" Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca iliaca)
Adult
Family: Emberizids
JMC Pocono Property
Monroe County, PA
2017/03/04
Theridiidae Checklist: Comb-Footed Spiders
Comb-footed spiders from the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 are small spiders, but it is one of the largest family of spiders living in tree canopies. The “comb”, or serrated bristles on tarsi IV gives the spiders in this family its common name. While some theridiids construct three-dimensional webs or cob webs, several genera do not build webs at all.
Lace bugs belong to the family Tingidae and are recognised by the lace-like structure on their pronotum and forewings. Lace bugs are usually host-specific and feed on the undersides of leaves by piercing the epidermis and sucking the sap. The holes left behind by the pierced epidermis are also how we typically identify the leaves that lace bugs may have infested.
Read more at Tingidae Checklist: Lace Bugs
A Dingy Bush Brown (Mycalesis perseus cepheus) in Labrador Park.
Visit with me in my blog: Labrador Park Visit
*Note: More pics of Butterflies and Moths in my Butterflies and Moths Album.
Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), Pitt Town Lagoon, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S153009607
A small bird with a long tail that is held cocked. Its tail is usually blue (except in juveniles, which have brown tails). Breeding males have a pale blue crown, cheek, and back with a strong black line from the bill through the eyes and around the back of the head. Nonbreeding males are fairly plain grayish-brown birds with black bills and bright blue tails. Females have a duller blue tail and a reddish bill. Note that the patch between the eye and bill (lores) on females is a reddish color of about the same tone as the bill (in Variegated and Purple-backed Fairywrens the lores are much darker than the bill). Female Superb Fairywrens have a much cooler and grayer plumage than the warm tones of Red-backed Fairywren. This species is abundant in parks, gardens, and open woodlands around much of southeastern Australia.
Source: Ebird
Baillon's Crake (Zapornia pusilla), Richmond Lowlands, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S153074351
Widespread across Africa, Eurasia and Australasia. Tiny crake that breeds in wet sedge marshes and bogs; migrants can be in any marshy habitat. Usually retiring and rarely seen, but can be confiding. Although unmistakeable in parts of its range, it can sometimes co-occur with the similar Little Crake. Best told by its shorter wings, short, greenish bill that lacks red base and barred flanks; juvenile darker and more extensively barred below than juvenile Little Crake.
Source: Ebird
Javan Munia (Lonchura leucogastroides), Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S165566753
Plain brown munia with a dark face and a white belly. Similar in appearance to White-rumped Munia, with which it overlaps in southern Sumatra; look out for dark, instead of white rump. Inhabits lowland fields, meadows, wetlands, and edge. Occasionally mixes with other species of munias, particularly when food is plentiful; otherwise found in small flocks, in pairs, and singly. Native to Indonesia; introduced to parts of Malaysia and Singapore.
Source: Ebird
I think they all apply to me at some point or another.
In fact, this chart is pretty derivative of Cristoph Niemann and Geoff McFetridge.
But yeah. Fun little 1hr brainfart from today.
Australian Crake (Porzana fluminea), Pitt Town Lagoon, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S152947385
Very small, stocky rail with yellow legs and bill. Brown above, blue-gray below black streaking and white specks, barred flanks, and black undertail with a thick white border (unlike Baillon’s Crake, which has fine barring). Tail is often held cocked. Inhabits freshwater and saltwater wetlands with vegetated edges, where it forages on muddy shorelines, often out in the open. Calls include a clipped, squeaking "chip-chip" that extends into a rapid series.
Source: Ebird
Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)
Basic Fall-Plumage
Family: Wood Warblers
JMC Quadrant
Monroe County, PA
2016/10/02
Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos melanoleucos), Nurragingy Reserve, Blacktown, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
The little pied cormorant, little shag or kawaupaka (Microcarbo melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the subantarctic.
Source: Wikipedia
White-capped Albatross (Thalassarche cauta), Sydney Pelagic, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S149414594
A medium-sized dark-backed albatross with pale underwings outlined by a narrow dark border and a dark notch in the armpit. The adult has a whitish head with grayish cheeks that give it a “white-capped” appearance. The gray-green bill has a yellowish tip to both mandibles. Juveniles are grayer on the head with gray bills. The species breeds on islands off Tasmania and New Zealand but disperses widely across the southern Oceans between 15 and 60°S, where it is a frequently encountered pelagic seabird.
Source: Ebird
Argiope Checklist: Cross Spiders
Cross orb weaver spiders from the genus Argiope Audouin, 1826 have some of the most common names tagged to them, namely Cross Spiders, Zig-Zag Spiders, Signature Spiders, Silver-Faced Spiders, St. Andrew’s Cross Spiders, etc. There were always exceptions to the common name within the genus, so I settled for one which matched closely to all of the species listed on this page – Cross Spiders. This refers to the position of its legs forming a typical X-posture when perched on its web. Sometimes, it may build stabilimenta to extend its cross.
View full checklist here: Argiope Checklist: Cross Spiders
Isopoda Checklist: Pillbugs & Sowbugs
Pillbugs, sowbugs, roly-polies and woodlice, collectively referred to as isopods, are land-dwelling crustaceans that feed mainly on decaying organic matter, especially rotting wood and leaves. Pillbugs can roll into a tight ball or a pill — an ability called conglobation. Sowbugs, on the other hand, cannot conglobate and would have a pair of tail-like appendages (uropods) that project out from the rear end of their body.
Read more at Isopoda Checklist: Pillbugs & Sowbugs and Isopod.Site
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Located at Marsland Basin (off TWP 232) in Southern Alberta.
I had read an e-bird report prior to heading to Calgary, AB and decided to check out this spot the day after arrival. I went in search of the ibis and black crowned night heron. Both of which would be a lifer.
Lucky enough to locate and photograph both species among others.
The owners of the property adjacent to Marsland Basin are very kind enough to welcome and allow birders to use their viewing area overlooking the basin and enjoy the many species using the wetlands.
My e-bird list for this location:
ebird.org/ebird/canada/view/checklist?subID=S24426917
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Have a wonderful day.
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Incidental and rare for this area. Posted for e-bird checklist only
Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), Workington Harbour, Cumbria, England
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S287468407
Plump, rock-loving shorebird with slightly droopy bill. Most often seen in nonbreeding plumage, which is fairly dark gray with spotted underparts. Namesake purple sheen (mostly on back, scapulars, and tertials) only visible at close distance in good light. Legs and base of bill usually bright orange. Messy-looking breeding plumage is darker and more heavily marked, with limited rusty tones on upperparts. Largely inaccessible breeding range on high Arctic tundra; most often seen in northern Europe, Spitsbergen, and Iceland. Winters at slightly lower latitudes, regularly south to the mid-Atlantic region in North America and the Iberian Peninsula in Europe; found in flocks on rocky coastlines and jetties pounded by heavy surf.
Source: Ebird
It's raining tonight. A substantial rain.
So, time to dig into the archives and express with a picture.
I know, the sky is completely blown out in this shot. But, it means more to me than the balance of exposures.
I come from New Jersey. South Jersey to be exact. (very different from smelly North Jersey). Yes, we are home to the "Jersey Shore", and evidently the "Fist Pump" but we look at those people with the same in-credulousness that you do when watching on TV.
I up my origins because home for me is flat. Flat flat. Like Kansas flat. Well, not exactly that bad, but pretty damn flat. Here, check this out, here's a topo map of Jersey. I remind you, I come from the Southern half. Shades of green express elevation. Deep green color means elevation of 0-100 ft above sea level
www.mapsofworld.com/usa/topographic-maps/maps/new-jersey-...
....yeahp. You are reading that map correctly. From East to West, the highest point of South Jersey is just shy of 100 ft above sea level!
So, I say all this, because, when growing up, I read Backpacker and Outside magazine and knew at some point in my life- I had to live by mountains. Snow capped mountains. Rugged rivers and rocky hilltops. Deep forests with dark starry night skies. The Wild called to me. The last 10 years I've done alot of domestic and global travel to go see those far off places, and wow, our world is an incredible place.
But travelling wasn't enough. I wanted to live by the mountains, not just see them. Now, I live by the mountains :-)
Here's an Oregon topo map:
www.mapsofworld.com/usa/topographic-maps/maps/oregon-topo...
Oregon has elevation colors that Jersey can't touch! Makes me want to do some fist pumps... ;-)
So, this picture is a self portrait. Probably about 5 am or so. Whenever sunrise was during the Perseid Meteor Shower. I rushed to get these shots because a sudden wind storm was ripping tents from the ground and blowing camp gear all over the place. But this view continued to stop me in mid motion and stare with awe. I know, the sky is empty, devoid of beautiful glowing sunrise clouds- but man, look at that land! This moment for me is expressive of living a life goal. Maybe later in life I'll live closer to bigger mountains, or possibly even in the ranges, but for now, being an hour away from 10,000 ft+ mountains just blows me away. And mornings like this make a kid from Jersey just stop and stare.
So, cheers to the beauty around us. Cheers to early mornings in beautiful places. Cheers to kids growing up and doing what they dreamed of.