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  1. Joe H

    California, 2024

    Congratulations on building upon your already lofty goal of 400! Merry Christmas and I certainly agree your efforts this year deserve a reward, or in today's case, two rewards. Very much interested to see how the remaining days go!
  2. Joe H

    Comment by 'Joe H' in media 'Southern Double collared Sunbird- Female'

    That is a beautiful photograph! Stunning capture, well done.
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  3. Joe H

    Is there a CL 7x21 Curio in my future?

    I would suggest that it boils down to the sort birding (or whatever use you intend to put them to) you do most. These days, unless I am on a birding specific trip, I bird in between other errands or activities. That might be while skiing, biking, dog-walking, running kids around, whatever...
  4. Joe H

    Help with attracting woodpeckers

    I'm not sure if the following idea would fit in with your yard, but I've wired up an eight foot length of a dead tree trunk to a live tree (so it would stand upright and look natural) in my wooded back yard. Woodpeckers frequently visit it even though I have suet feeders in another location. I...
  5. Joe H

    California, 2024

    It's been great, variously peeking over your shoulder (or through your binoculars) as you accomplished this amazing milestone - well done! Thank you again for kindly detailing your travels. If I ever get back down to California, I'll cross-check my locations and times against this thread...
  6. Joe H

    California, 2024

    Wow! I haven't checked-in for a couple weeks and you've gotten within 3 sightings of making your amazing year count - and three months to go. Well done!
  7. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    4600; Moustached Tree-swift, Hemiprocne mystacea, PNG, 2011
  8. Joe H

    California, 2024

    Wow! Less than 20 to reach the magic 400 - certainly this is an amazing accomplishment regardless of the final tally. Thank you again for letting us "share" in the process. It's really interesting reading your trip reports.
  9. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    #4400, Buff-headed Coucal Centropus milo Solomon Is., 2011
  10. Joe H

    Vanuatu 15-24ish Nov going up the mountain - looking for 1 more person

    Wow, that's too bad. It does look like flights to Vila are the only option until the receivership process plays out. The ferry from Vila to Luganville might give a person a chance at the Vanuatu Petrel as a nice consolation for the 24 hour sea crossing.
  11. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    I so rarely get to play a bird but I think this one fits: #4349, Melodious Laughing-thrush (AKA Chinese Hwamei) Garrulax canorus, seen on Kuaui, HI, 2007
  12. Joe H

    Vanuatu 15-24ish Nov going up the mountain - looking for 1 more person

    I used to fly direct from the international terminal at Brisbane, Australia; and there are/were daily Air Vanuatu flights between Vila and Luganville. If you go and end up with any down time in Luganville, there was an old, overgrown botanical garden site just north of town along the coastal...
  13. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    My next bird has a scarlet belly. 4236; Yellow-bibbed Lory, Lorius chlorocercus, Solomon Islands, 2012
  14. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    4234. Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove, Ptilinopus iozonus, New Britton, PNG, 2010
  15. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    4231 (if I did the spreadsheet/thread searches correctly), Mackinlay's Cuckoo-dove, Macropygia mackinlayi, Vanuatu, 2011 Edit: Apologies for the terrible picture (the inset picture is from Ebird, just to show what the brown blob is).
  16. Joe H

    Birding around Melbourne/Victoria in Spring

    It’s been many years, but my wife (from Melbourne) and I birded the Merribee Western Water Treatment Plant and reserve on a self-guided walk. She did the pre-visit approval requirements which were outlined on their website. I’m not sure if it’s still an option, but we simply checked in at a...
  17. Joe H

    Fiery or Scarlet Minivet in Southern Thailand (Songkhla)

    Based on no personal experience but an old Collins Field Guide to South-East Asia, a red patch (in the male) near the end of the secondaries of a closed wing is diagnostic to the Scarlet. It looks to me like your bird has the red spot.
  18. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Thank you Paul, now I get it (I'm slow on computers). In that case, and sticking to the avian clergy, Cardinal Myzomela for 3812. Edit: Photo taken 2011, Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu.
  19. Joe H

    California, 2024

    Yellow-billed Loon in CA, great tick! Closing in on 350 now and still half a year to go; well done and thank you for the detailed reporting and pictures. Post #86 was interesting to me in terms of the documented effort (miles driven, gas used). It's quite a project and it's really fun to...
  20. Joe H

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Has Cardinal Lory been played? I searched this thread but didn't see it. On the spreadsheet it is listed at number 6154, but the current number posted is 3808 so I'm not sure. Anyway, if it hasn't been played, here's a picture of another Cardinal - and #3809 unless I've failed to read the...
  21. Joe H

    Owls in Alaska (Anchorage, Denali and Seward)

    I’ve seen Northern Hawk Owl on spruce tree tops between Gunsight Mountain (around mile 110) and Glennallen during drives along the Glenn Highway during daylight hours. Tolsona campground used to have a regular pair of Great Grays nesting near the main office building. They took people on hikes...
  22. Joe H

    Comment by 'Joe H' in media 'Great-tailed Grackle, Male'

    I do like a nice close up!
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  23. Joe H

    Afghan Babblers?

    Any possibility of a side-view picture showing the bill shape? E-bird checklists for Nushki have Common Babbler listed but not Afghanistan. Interested to see if this can be nailed down.
  24. Joe H

    California, 2024

    Congratulations on getting 3/4s of the way to your goal with a full summer, fall and a bit of winter left in the year! I don't recall reading about any pelagic trips yet (I may have missed, I'll have to go back if so) so hopefully there are still some big hauls available. I'll be very...
  25. Joe H

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    The image used for my avatar, and all but one of the pictures in my gallery were taken with inexpensive pocket cameras. The attached picture was too. The cheeky Kookaburra plonked itself in the center of a backyard table while we were cooking up sausages on the BBQ. Despite our kids’ scolding...
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