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  1. SueO

    First Birding Tour

    Not really my birding day (yet), but I wasn't sure where else to post this. I am hoping to go on what will be my first ever birding tour. I have contacted Julian of Explora Calocitta Tours. The trip would be to the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, so a different ecosystem. One of the...
  2. SueO

    Social Flycatcher egg broken on my boat deck

    There is a Social Flycatcher nest in the radome of the boat next to my boat. We have had high winds the last few nights and the nest looks like it is blowing away. I thought maybe they would desert this nest and try somewhere else, but they seem to be okay with the shape of things. The nest must...
  3. SueO

    Beautiful Day in West Mexico

    Every now and then, Mother Nature bestows the gift of a really magical birding day upon me. Today was one of those days. I almost didn't go. I thought I should probably pass on birding and take a paperback to the beach instead. I could stay shaded and stretch out on a lounge chair under a...
  4. SueO

    New bird for my Barra de Navidad, Mexico list

    Been a while since I put a new bird on my Barra list: Reddish Egret. Unless I got careless and failed to update, here is the whole Barra de Navidad, Mexico list: Barra de Navidad Bird List Brown Pelican Blue-footed Booby Magnificent Frigatebird Neotropical Cormorant Black-crowned Night Heron...
  5. SueO

    Bill color aberration in Tropical Kingbird

    Going through old photos I came across this Tropical Kingbird (maybe it's not ;)) from Panama. I couldn't find information on lack of melanin in bills. I found that leucism referred to plumage but that the eyes, bill, and other bare parts are of the normal color. Is there a term for lack of...
  6. SueO

    Stories Behind Birds You've Photographed

    This is a companion thread to BenjiS's, 'Name a Bird You've Photographed'. So many great birds have been posted. Some I've never even heard of, and I can't believe I am the only one in that boat. I googled a few. Some are in far-flung places; places most of us will never see. I wondered about...
  7. SueO

    Marks on immature Yellow-legged Gull

    On another thread we were posting photos of birds we'd seen and I posted a bird I got on Isla Graciosa, Canary Islands. That triggered something I've wondered about. I saw a young Yellow-legged Gull on the island that had horizontal marks on the lower leg. I haven't been able to find any...
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  8. SueO

    Down the Hatch in Western Mexico

    Arrived in Barra de Navidad yesterday for a two week stay aboard our sailboat, Peregrine. Barra is at 19 degrees 11.734 N and 104 degrees 40.954 W Woke this morning to some very vocal Osprey. Funny how such powerful birds can have such pip-squeaky voices. As I was going up the steps to pop my...
  9. SueO

    Six Day Texas Trip

    February 8-13 I needed to get away and spend some quality time with Mother Nature, so I started looking for birding places to visit. I didn't want to be too cold. I came upon Texas and the Whooping Cranes, and I knew I found my destination. Originally, I was thinking of a road trip, but decided...
  10. SueO

    Kestrels on Fuerteventura

    Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I am going through old, old photos and came across some photos on Fuerteventura. I have some distant shots of a Kestrel. Could both Falco tinnunculus and Falco tinnunculus dacotiae be found there? Edit: really crappy cropped photo.
  11. SueO

    Bird List for Western Mexico April 23-May 12, 2023

    Here is my bird list for Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico. It's on the Pacific Coast on the border of Jalisco and Colima. April 23 to May 12, 2023. Brown Pelican Neotropic Cormorant Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird Great Egret Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron...
  12. SueO

    Devoted Kingbird Parents

    Last week a small sailboat sailed into the marina where Peregrine is moored. The sailboat came in from Tenacatita, some eighteen nautical miles north of here. The boat has a single spreader mast which means it has one horizontal bar crossing the vertical mast. On the starboard side of the...
  13. SueO

    Back in Western Mexico

    Thought I had my first lifer from Barra de Navidad, Mexico, in what must be years, but it was a non-lifer, lifer. It was a Magpie-jay. I just happened to look up and Wow! Didn't have time to register it properly. It flew overhead at quite a distance, but it was obvious it was a Magpie-jay. I...
  14. SueO

    Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico

    I thought it would be easy to ID these guys, but I'm not having much luck. I thought I had them a few times, but what I thought they might be were always (way) out of range. I didn't mean too, but I flushed them and I got a fairly good view of size. They almost looked like nightjars in wing...
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  15. SueO

    Frustrating Little Empids

    I thought I had a new bird for my life list this week with a Buff-breasted Flycatcher. The photos were not good enough or thorough enough for corroboration, and I have doubts of my own, so it doesn't get listed. I still think that's what I saw but thinking and knowing are two different things...
  16. SueO

    Possible Buff-breasted Flycatcher Coastal W. Mexico

    Hi All. I think I have a Buff-breasted Flycatcher, but not 100% sure. I don't know what else it could be. It will be a lifer so I would like confirmation or correction. I am unsure for a few reasons. One is that according to the range map, the bird doesn't come down all the way to sea level. I...
  17. SueO

    Winter Residents in July

    I have been "home" for years now after our 13 year sail around the world, but for various reasons, I have not thrown myself into birding like I did while underway. In fact, I hardly go birding at all. I have not bothered to learn about migration patterns of the birds found close to home in...
  18. SueO

    Birding Barra de Navidad, Mexico 3

    Four more birds to add to the April 16-30 list: Crested Caracara Lesser Goldfinch Common Moorhen Northern Jacana I also saw a Crocodile, Coati Mundi and some other good stuff--but the best was a possible group of Shearwaters on a rocky out-cropping on the Pacific Ocean side of the peninsula. I...
  19. SueO

    Birding Barra de Navidad, Mexico 2

    Birded for three hours today and got a few new birds for the list: Great Blue Heron Brown-crested Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher? Not sure, but didn't sound like Nutting's. Possibly not migrated yet. Rose-throated Becard Scrub Euphonia Greyish Saltator We leave next Saturday. Hope to add a...
  20. SueO

    Birding Barra 1

    Don't know if I'll be up to birding every day till we leave on the 30th, but I'll try to post on the days I do go out. Today was absolutely stellar! I put my hiking boots and jeans on and went for a proper walk in the hills behind the hotel. We are on a small, high peninsula, with a lagoon on...
  21. SueO

    A Day in Sunny Mexico

    4/21/22 Grand Bay Hotel Barra de Navidad Jalisco, Mexico Leisurely birded the grounds of the hotel in my flip flops today rather than doing a long walk in the hills. Got a lifer for the second day in a row. Yesterday was a Bell's Vireo, today was a Golden-crowned Emerald Hummingbird.. It was...
  22. SueO

    Bell's Vireo? Coastal Western Mexico

    I believe I have a Bell's Vireo here, but I would like confirmation as it took me an inordinately long time to come to that conclusion, and I think it would be a lifer. I spent too long trying to make it fit Cassin's. I didn't hear a call. He was a bit warbler like in movements, moving fast and...
  23. SueO

    Terrible photos of wild parrots in Southern California

    Is there anyway someone can ID these? Sorry for the quality, did some heavy editing to try to get some detail. After a bit of looking, I'm leaning toward Mitred Parakeet. I've never seen them before and don't want to put the wrong thing on my garden list. Thanks for any help.
  24. SueO

    A Walk in the Park

    I spent a few hours birding at the Huntington Beach Central Park yesterday (Orange County, California). For being in the middle of a very populated area, it's a good place to bird. I admit I've been spoiled as far as birding areas go. I find I don't enjoy birding as much in the noisy areas...
  25. SueO

    National Hummingbird Day.

    I just found out that the first Saturday in September in National Hummingbird Day, in the USA. It seems they get two days, because October 3rd is National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day. Happy Hummingbird Day!
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