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Owling in the Okanogan with expert owl tracker Khanh Tran. He spotted this little guy way up in the trees. Not sure how there were any remaining leaves in the tree.d
Eisvogel - Kingfisher - blauer Juwel
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Eisvogel - Kingfisher - blauer Juwel
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Saw-whet Stare
This little guy was very comfortable in the cluster of branches in this tree. He is looking down at me because the only way I could photograph the owl was to lay on my back in the mud. Guess an extension tube or shorter lens is in order...
Eisvogel - Kingfisher - blauer Juwel
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Sunny enjoys each little bite of the seed ball. I love this one, because she will close her eyes like this and make happy noises when she is enjoying something. You can even see a little crumb falling.
Happy Feathery Friday from Sunny girl!
Edit Oct 20: the biggest thing making it hard to put this as a Long-tailed Jaeger is the large amount of white on the upperwing primaries -- most of their bases are white, maybe 7 feathers. Also it impressed us with how powerfully it flew, and me with how far down its wings went on the downbeat. I even did an imitation of that. I wish I had a full profile photo of it while resting, to show the primary extension past the tail. That might help.
I've received the explanation from Brad, including comments by other expert birders. I'll try to put it in a coherent form and post it here shortly, ditching some of the gobbledygook below.
[Edit October 18: I got word from eBird reviewer Brad Waggoner that this is not a Parasitic Jaeger, but rather is a Long-tailed Jaeger. If so, it's a Yakima County first.
Once I receive an explanation of why how it was determined to be a Long-tailed rather than a Parasitic Jaeger, I'll post it here, and probably post some of my still photos if they show any of the pertinent distinctions.]
[Edit October 19: But wait: I've been reviewing my photos and some from Karen Zook. I continue to see in them what appeared to us as we looked at the bird, that the central tail feathers were distinctly pointed, not blunt. That shows in numerous still photos and 51 frame captures from this video. I continue to think of this bird as brown, not gray or "cold". Gray, to me, is a something between black and white, a light shade of black. Brown to me is the classic color of mud or dirt. Some rocks in this photo appear grayish to me. Most rocks appear brown, like the bird. The profile of the head, when viewed from the side (not from an angle), appears somewhat blocky, not neatly rounded "dovelike" (at :43 seconds in this video). The bill appears more slender than blocky. It shows almost no gonydeal angle. The outer thirty to forty percent (less than half) of the bill (again in perfect profile, as at :43 seconds into this video) is dark.
Shown decently in photos by Karen Zook of this bird are what look like 7 or 8 primary feathers with white on the dorsal (upper) surface. On the outer 2 or three primaries, the white seems to extend almost the length of the feather. This shows in the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 10th of her photos posted on Smugmug at:
fitzbew.smugmug.com/Rimrock-Jaeger-10-5-16/i-3FB92vK
There the underwing coverts do not appear lighter than the flanks.
To me, using the Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition, these all point toward Parasitic Jaeger, over Long-tailed Jaeger. I'll keep studying it, next referring to Cornell's amazing Birds of North America Online.]
BNA Online seems to contrast with Sibley regarding the central tail feathers (retrices).
Sibley: central tail feathers blunt tipped on juvenile, pointed on older birds.
BNA Online: "Birds in Juvenile plumage have central rectrices with rounded tips (pointed in Parasitic Jaegers; Løppenthin 1932 , Walter 1962 ) and outer primaries with rounded tips (only in fresh plumage; De Korte 1985 , Melville 1985 ), but they acquire pointed rectrices during first winter while still in brownish, barred plumage....Rounded central rectrices of Juvenile plumage lost by Nov and usually replaced by pointed rectrices."
But maybe this is what Sibley is referring to as an "older bird" -- not juvenile, but not adult.
Yesterday evening I was trying to decide whether to join the Zooks on their field trip today. I was hoping none of the local problem listers would be on the trip, and saw the forecast for 80% chance of rain showers. As far as weather I'm spoiled here in Yakima County, Washington. I mentioned the cruddy forecast to Mary, and she said it's good Parasitic Jaeger weather. A couple of years ago, with a huge storm system upon us, we cancelled a planned trip to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Instead we went to Rimrock Lake where we found Yakima County's first Parasitic Jaeger, a light adult, on September 28th, 2013.*
www.flickr.com/photos/58148027@N07/9990255786/in/datetaken/
It was in rather cruddy weather. Neither of us had seen a jaeger before, or how to spell jaeger, or even knew what one looked like. It took lots of wondering and wandering through my Sibley's guide, which got thoroughly soaked and pretty much wrecked in the process. Good friends Mike & Alice Roper showed up there by chance, and we took them down to see it. I called Richard Repp who spread the word. Several birders and listers got to see it. Lamont MacLachlan photo documented its presence 3 days later.
ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31912745
Today as this one flew our way I think a couple of people commented something about a really dark bird. I had the temerity to call out Parasitic Jaeger, long before such an identification was sure. One of numerous such blurts from me today. I think most of us got to see the white markings on the flight feathers. I commented how they looked a bit like the markings on Nighthawks, and Joe Zook commented bout how steady its wing beats were as it flew out of sight. We moved down to Horseshoe Cove hoping to see it again. (I missed catching that Joe spotted it while we were looking at a Hairy Woodpecker where we'd parked.) I went to a high point a bit east of the boat ramp to look for it, but soon got distracted by Surf Scoters and Western Grebes and Common Mergansers and such. Shortly after everyone else had headed back to the cars I actually looked eastward for it and saw it on the beach. A whistle and hollar to the group brought them back. All of us got nice views, and the Zooks did very well, making sure that when we moved to another vantage point that we waited for Mike who was going back to the car for his camera. Nobody clomped ahead while spouting off, nor scared it off with a clanking setup of their tripod. It was nice to not have any of the local problem bird listers in our midst.
Karen Zook posted a nice write-up of the trip on BirdYak. She kindly forwarded a copy of her post to me (to get past Denny Grandstander's blocking me from posting to or receiving posts from that Yahoo! group -- his retaliation for my efforts to discourage unethical and illegal behavior by four prominent Yakima County bird listers.)
Please always consider the sensitivity of birds, nearby humans, and the environment.
Please read, PRACTICE, and promote the ABA Code of Birding Ethics.
*A Parasitic Jaeger had been reported 7 miles south of Beverly, Washington. That is along the Columbia River in Grant County, just east of Yakima County. Yakima County's most prominent bird lister considers that to be a sighting in Yakima County. Jaegers are birds, creatures that fly, so that bird certainly could have flown into Yakima County, but it was not documented in Yakima County, regardless of how much Andy is loath to give due credit when I find rare birds.
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
My husband took this photo while I was napping yesterday. The one on his arm slowly made her way up onto his shoulder and fell sound asleep. Lucky for him there was no pooping.
These are the newest batch of Buff orpingtons...I am stunned at how fast these girls have grown.
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
'In mathematics, the pigeonhole principle, also known as Dirichlet's box (or drawer) principle, is exemplified by such things as the fact that in a family of three children there must be at least two of the same gender. This principle states that, given two natural numbers n and m with n > m, if n items are put into m pigeonholes, then at least one pigeonhole must contain more than one item.'
Read more at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
Photograph shot at the Tomb of Hazrat Alam Shah Bukhari (RA), Main M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi, Pakistan.
Photo Copyright 2013 by Michal Daniel
Pillsbury House Theatre production of THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY
Ansa Asyea - Number Two
Darius Dotch - Young Number Two, Potter's Clay
George Keller - Mary South
Traci Allen - Sweet Tea
Jake Waid - Trowbridge, Red Kyote, stranger and Seminole Chief
Keli Garrett - Half George
Santino Craven - Goodbird, Wonderful, YoungTrowbridge and Echo
James Craven - Horse Power
Regina Williams - M. Gene Wind Song
Harry Waters Jr - Fat Rev
H. Adam Harris - Colorado
Marion McClinton - Director
Marcus Gardley - Playwright
Noel Raymond - Producer
Faye M. Price - Producer
Nakissa Etemad - Dramaturg
EG Bailey - Assistant Director
Elizabeth R MacNally - Stage Manager
Mike Wangen - Lighting Designer
Dean Holzman - Set Designer/Builder
Kellie Larson - Prop Designer
Trevor Bowen - Costume Designer
C. Andrew Mayer - Sound Designer
Heidi Hunter Batz - Fight Chorographer
Jonathon Thunder - Lobby Installation
Alan Berks - Communications Director
Corrie Zoll - Development Director
James A. Williams - Artistic Associate
Ellen Fenster - Artistic Associate
Kurt Kwan - Artistic Associate
Mike Hoyt - Director Arts of Chicago
Molly Van Avery - Director of Naked Stages
While these are common in the southern part of the state, this is actually the first one ever reported in our Christmas Bird Count circle. We arrived to check this site — usually yields a few dabbling ducks in the sheltered spot by the boat ramp, sparrows in the weedy hedgerow below the coast road, gulls & maybe a few diving birds offshore in the channel — and found the bird perched at close range on the fence of the tiny groomed park next to the boat launch. We observed it for a few minutes as it moved around on the fence and dropped down to explore the park sidewalk; it looked alert and active. People do feed the birds here. The area is a mixed-use waterfront—industrial docks to the south, suburban residential to the north with a narrow strip of gravelly(?) beach. Half a mile north is a marina & a park with a small area of salt marsh.
A little later, a mile or so up the road, a local stopped and rolled down his window when he saw people wandering around with binocs. “Hey, there’s a bird that’s been hanging around the boat launch for a couple of months now. Never seen one like it. It looks a lot like a grackle, but it’s bigger, and it’s brown instead of black.”
Not sharpened (except for camera default), as I didn't want to affect the eye color.
He had been playing upside-down on his bell-thing and then stopped to look up at me. Silly bird!
I have one with better focus and exposure, but he doesn't have this goofy look on his face that is so funny!