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  1. Mallard Family

    Mallard Family

    A mother and nine* youngsters grazing the lily pads. *mostly not in view at once, but there are nine at 0:40.
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    • duckling mallard (anas platyrhynchos) washington state
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    • Category: North America
  2. DennisC

    Comment by 'DennisC' in media 'Cooper's Hawk'

    Probably ranging you. It's a juvenile (vertical streaks on the breast). Raptors estimate distance to a target by parallax, by bobbing the head left and right. An adult's bobbing is likely too subtle to notice, but the juvenile needs practice. In the next second, its head would be off-center to...
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  3. American bushtit

    American bushtit

    American Bushtit
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  4. Great Blue Heron with a Brown Bullhead

    Great Blue Heron with a Brown Bullhead

    Great blue heron caught a brown bullhead catfish, <i>Ameiurus nebulosus</i>. The catfish is native to eastern North America but has been planted in the lake for human anglers. What are the white spiky things mostly to the right of the heron's bill?
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  5. One more time!

    One more time!

    I dont have a clue what that wad of yellow was, but it was too big for that gullet. Pop put it in, took it out, put it in again, but it wasnt going down. Finally, frustrated Junior just dropped it.
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    • red-winged blackbird
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    • Category: North America
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media '"Ahh ... sun! Warming that cold fish in my belly."'

    Delia, it's my understanding that cormorants do it to dry their wings after diving for fish; I think they do it even in cloudy weather.
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  7. "Ahh ... sun! Warming that cold fish in my belly."

    "Ahh ... sun! Warming that cold fish in my belly."

    Great blue heron, Ardea herodias. About 4 degrees Celsius, February 3, 2012, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State. When first seen, the great bird was grooming itself, and then seemed to settle down and relax, and the folded wings slowly spread out to the sun, while the eyes...
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    • blue heron
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    • Category: North America
  8. Golden Crowned Kinglet

    Golden Crowned Kinglet

    Golden-crowned kinglet, Regulus satrapa apache, female. Distinguished from the male by lack of orange in crown, from the other subspecies by yellowish-olive back.
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    • golden-crowned kinglet regulus satrapa
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    • Category: North America
  9. DennisC

    Seattle - Good Birdwatching Spots?

    Check out Seattle Audubon: http://www.birdweb.org/birdweb/index.aspx. From Washington Audubon, order the Great Washington State Birding Trail Puget Loop map: http://wa.audubon.org/puget-loop. In the immediate Seattle area, among my own favorite spots are Union Bay Natural Area and Magnuson...
  10. "C'mon, regurgitate something!"

    "C'mon, regurgitate something!"

    It's late September; maybe Pop thinks it's time you fed yourself? Glaucous-winged Gull, Larus glaucescens, first winter juvenile, and adult.
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    • glaucous-winged gull
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    • Category: North America
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Glaucous-Winged Gull, first winter'

    Delia, thanks.
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  12. Feed me! Whatever it is, I'll eat it!

    Feed me! Whatever it is, I'll eat it!

    Was the vegetation you can barely see (in the beak of the adult) meant to be eaten? I assume it was more bedding - western gulls are supposed to be carnivores. The other adult was just standing by, watching, as though unsure how to help, but eventually fetched some vegetation too. The flowers...
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    • western gull
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    Black Swifts at Snoqualmie Falls 2013

    DeaneRenata, Snoqualmie Falls is one of the largest and by far the most famous waterfall in Washington. It's on the Snoqualmie River, a tributary of the Snohomish, east of Seattle, about halfway to the Cascade Crest and about two miles north of Interstate 90 Exit 25. The falls themselves are...
  14. ball of furious feathers

    ball of furious feathers

    One pigeon guillemot took a dislike to another and after a few seconds, they went at it furiously. After another few seconds in a ball of feathers and splatter, one retreated and then flew off. See an eight-frame sequence in order in at Flickr...
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    • cepphus columba pigeon guillemot
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    • Category: North America
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Just a morsel'

    Vicki, no, it looks as though the heron didn't think so either, but they seemed to be abundant. It might be a salmon fingerling, from either the hatchery or the natural spawning beds up the tributary river and creeks.
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