Avery Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 https://ebird.org/checklist/S131671198 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 https://ebird.org/checklist/S131718117 Got two FOYs just working my patch. Breeding robins, grackles, and doves are back. Not awesome for photography but another beautiful day for a walk! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 A below average day…at least I got the palm warbler…but if you read my comments for it hopefully you’ll learn a lesson! https://ebird.org/checklist/S131786960 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Fingers Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 3 minutes ago, IKLland said: A below average day…at least I got the palm warbler…but if you read my comments for it hopefully you’ll learn a lesson! https://ebird.org/checklist/S131786960 What’s an average day like?!?!?? Quote Estimate. Wasn’t paying attention to the swallows that weren’t on the lake. The lesson is that you should pay attention to all birds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 13 minutes ago, Snake Fingers said: What’s an average day like?!?!?? I guess in terms of species count this was normal at this hotspot, but it didn’t feel super active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 1 hour ago, IKLland said: A below average day…at least I got the palm warbler…but if you read my comments for it hopefully you’ll learn a lesson! https://ebird.org/checklist/S131786960 Accidentally deleting photos of a rare bird!! 😱 That's going to give me nightmares tonight. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 9 minutes ago, Quiscalus quiscula said: Accidentally deleting photos of a rare bird!! 😱 That's going to give me nightmares tonight. I always do…especially when your camera takes 30 photos a second, and the bird is just sitting on a perch…all the photos would look the same. Who needs 120 identical photos? You just need one or two, especially if they’re all the same angle. In this case I accidentally hit “delete entire scene” which delete all similar photos taken within the same couple of minutes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 1 minute ago, IKLland said: I always do…especially when your camera takes 30 photos a second, and the bird is just sitting on a perch…all the photos would look the same. Who needs 120 identical photos? You just need one or two, especially if they’re all the same angle. In this case I accidentally hit “delete entire scene” which delete all similar photos taken within the same couple of minutes. So you use burst a lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 16 minutes ago, Quiscalus quiscula said: So you use burst a lot? A LOT. Why wouldn’t you? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 (edited) 4 minutes ago, IKLland said: A LOT. Why wouldn’t you? I've tried it a couple of times but it tends to get very grainy. I'm also still a little bit confused on how to deal with it since it shows up as a video file. Edited March 25 by Quiscalus quiscula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 26 minutes ago, Quiscalus quiscula said: I've tried it a couple of times but it tends to get very grainy. I'm also still a little bit confused on how to deal with it since it shows up as a video file. Have you tried reading the camera manual? I think I remember that camera manual being quite good informative. You can also look up some YouTube videos about the camera. I don’t have my copy of that camera anymore, since it broke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 2 minutes ago, IKLland said: Have you tried reading the camera manual? I think I remember that camera manual being quite good informative. You can also look up some YouTube videos about the camera. I don’t have my copy of that camera anymore, since it broke. Yeah, I found how to do that now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 3 hours ago, Snake Fingers said: What’s an average day like?!?!?? Birding near or on the coast and birding inland is totally different. I would guess that species counts are probably somewhere around 20-30 lower inland, than on the coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 (edited) Today was a dedicated lifer day. I was out to get 3 lifers, as well as a county lifer. No county lifer, but I’ll get a local Wild Turkey soon enough. I thought I had 2 of the lifers until I got home and saw that Ebird is characterizing my Red Junglefowl as Exotic: Escapee, and for this observation, the site didn't add 1 to my overall species observed count, so I'll adhere to Ebird's standards and not claim a lifer. Great day, nonetheless. I put 167 miles on my car and submitted 4 checklists while I was out for nearly 9 hours. This is supposed to be the place to go at sunrise to see Blue-crowned Parakeets flying over the lake at sunrise, so I got there on time looking for the lifer but didn’t have any luck. It was a decent checklist, but one of my rare non-illustrated ones, as no photos were worthy of sharing: https://ebird.org/checklist/S131742534 I then drove to the other side of the lake and walked around a little looking for the Blue-crowned parakeets, but they weren’t here. It was an OK checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S131747058 This park and the previous location have more to offer, but I had other lifers to chase that would be easier to find, and I strongly suspected that the later it got, the worse my chances were to find the parakeets I was looking for, so I moved on to here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S131763745 Not a ton of species, but not bad for a parking lot. Any checklist with a lifer is a great checklist though! I did get the Common Myna I was targeting, but unfortunately my “Exotic: Escapee” Red Junglefowl doesn’t count. I suspect and hope that eventually these birds will breed so much (I did see 13 chicks today 😊) that Ebird will reclassify them as “Exotic: Naturalized,” and they will count as a lifer. I did get some great photos of the birds though. Take a look. I told a bunch of random shoppers in the parking lot that they were looking at the original chickens. Most of them didn’t care. I then moved on looking for a Wild Turkey County Lifer. If I weren't so tired, I would have stuck around longer to look. No rush, as I'm not worried about getting one locally. It was an OK checklist. Not too many species, but I only walked the area where somebody recently saw the bird I was looking for. I'd only seen Snail Kites twice before. Today, I got my best photo of the species. I'll be back if I don't get a county Wild Turkey somewhere else first: https://ebird.org/checklist/S131783993 Edited March 25 by dragon49 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Fingers Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 A nice little checklist. https://ebird.org/checklist/S131788270 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Walk in the woods with my father. We went out right after it rained and saw a bunch! My second 40 species checklist for Laurens Co. this year. I also found a FOY rare Cape May Warbler! https://ebird.org/checklist/S131892106 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Very slow migrant wise, was expecting more for this date. Everything seems to be a week late or so this year with the cold and rainy weather. https://ebird.org/checklist/S131903167 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 https://ebird.org/checklist/S131903567 Very windy, at one point I felt the wind tip me over a little bit. For some reason, the first Fish Crow photo uploaded to eBird in the county. Birds weren't cooperative photography wise. I found that from a hill in the neighborhood you can see to the river and get several ducks, kingfisher, etc. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 The most important thing is that I got the photo lifer eastern Screech Owl I was after. Decent number of species, considering the time of day I was there. As I mentioned in the checklist notes, it was quite odd not to see ANY egrets. https://ebird.org/checklist/S131890551 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 https://ebird.org/checklist/S131931230 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 https://ebird.org/checklist/S131997133 Chilly and overcast. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Checklist after storms all day. We had a lot of wind and rain all day. It finally cleared up and I was able to go birding. Decent sized checklist for the hotspot. Happy with the counts on all the species. Nothing new. https://ebird.org/checklist/S131994018 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 A failed mission to get a great Horned Owl lifer. I was in the right place at the right time. I did get some intel though on a nest in plain view not too far away. Gnats and mosquitos are now brutal as soon as dark approaches in South Florida, so I was out in long pants, a long-sleeve shirt, and a mesh jacket. A good checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S132011654 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 47 minutes ago, dragon49 said: A failed mission to get a great Horned Owl lifer. I was in the right place at the right time. I did get some intel though on a nest in plain view not too far away. Gnats and mosquitos are now brutal as soon as dark approaches in South Florida, so I was out in long pants, a long-sleeve shirt, and a mesh jacket. A good checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S132011654 Nice Merlin shots! I think you could definitely lighten them more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 26 minutes ago, IKLland said: Nice Merlin shots! I think you could definitely lighten them more. Ty - You are right. The originals were very dark, as I took them 3 minutes after sunset and didn't lighten them enough. Are these what you had in mind? They are the same picture, just 2 different crops. I'll probably go ahead and delete the first, darker set. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/550531821 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/550531831 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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