tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587843229877679572024-03-18T22:23:56.439-05:00Patzcuaro BirderThe purpose of this blog is to share birding information around Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico.Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-4879631633421736802016-05-02T20:32:00.001-05:002016-05-02T20:32:25.655-05:00Hey folks/fellow birders.....I don't post much information on this blogspot these days. Instead, I post trip lists on eBird and bird photos on my Facebook page (Georgia Birkett Conti). Please check these out or send me a private email at antep12ATgmailDOTcom and I will answer your questions. I am no longer working with Victor Hugo Valencia and instead work with a doctoral student in Morelia (Elisa). Together we can help plan your birding experiences in Morelia, Patzcuaro, Tacambaro and Uruapan. If you have a USA phone, you can call me at (206) 384-4415; this phone rings in my home in Arocutin, Michoacán and, if I am not home, I will get an email message where I can hear your message. Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-33346344052238297632015-01-01T18:13:00.004-06:002015-01-01T18:13:48.183-06:00Trip Report - December 30, 2014On Tuesday I spent half a day with Hugo and visiting birder Trent from San Francisco. They continued for the rest of the day. Here's what was seen (not in taxonomic order):<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #990000;"><em><u>Jaracuaro Bridge:</u></em></span></strong><br />
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Great egret<br />
Snowy egret<br />
Cattle egret<br />
Great Blue heron<br />
Little blue heron<br />
Tri-colored heron<br />
Northern jacana<br />
Black-necked stilt<br />
White-faced ibis<br />
Sora<br />
Least bittern<br />
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Common yellowthroat<br />
Black-polled yellowthroat<br />
Vermilion flycatcher<br />
Barn owl<br />
Belted kingfisher<br />
Northern raven<br />
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Turkey vulture<br />
Blue-winged teal<br />
Green-winged teal<br />
Mexican duck<br />
Northern harrier<br />
Red-tailed hawk<br />
American kestrel<br />
Northern rough-winged swallow<br />
Red-winged black bird<br />
Yellow-headed blackbird<br />
Song sparrow<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
Rufous-capped brushfinch<br />
Curve-billed thrasher<br />
Blue-grey gnatcatcher<br />
Cassin's kingbird<br />
Great-tailed grackle<br />
White pelican<br />
Yellow-rumped warbler<br />
Horned lark<br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #990000;"><u>Georgia's House:</u></span></em></strong><br />
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Bkue mockingbird<br />
MacGillivray's warbler<br />
Lazuli bunting<br />
Cassin's vireo<br />
Black-vented oriole<br />
Northern raven<br />
Magnificent hummingbird<br />
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Berylline hummingbird<br />
Broad-billed hummingbird<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="color: #990000;">La Estacion:</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Black-throated gray warbler<br />
Townsend's warbler<br />
Orange-crowned warbler<br />
Yellow-rumped warbler<br />
Wilson's warbler<br />
Red-faced warbler<br />
Hermit warbler<br />
Slate-throated redstart<br />
Bushtit<br />
Black vulture<br />
Turkey vulture<br />
Red-tailed hawk<br />
Warbling vireo<br />
Ruby-crowned kinglet<br />
Black-headed siskin<br />
Pine siskin<br />
Bewick's wren<br />
Lesser goldfinch<br />
Eastern bluebird<br />
Hooded oriole<br />
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Flame-colored tanager<br />
Transvolcanic jay<br />
Common raven<br />
White-striped woodcreeper<br />
American flicker<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
Hybrid towhee (Spotted x Collared)<br />
Gray silky-flycatcher<br />
Broad-billed hummingbird<br />
Empid sp.<br />
Elegant trogon<br />
Orange-billed nightingale-thrush<br />
Blue mockingbird<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="color: #990000;">Columpio:</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Olive warbler<br />
Crescent-chested warbler<br />
Red-faced warbler<br />
Hermit warbler<br />
Townsend's warbler<br />
Ruby-crowned kinglet<br />
Hutton's vireo<br />
Cassin's vireo<br />
Mexican chickadee<br />
Hepatic tanager<br />
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White-eared hummingbird<br />
Blue-throated hummingbird<br />
White-striped woodcreeper<br />
Brown creeper<br />
Transvolcanic jay<br />
Northern raven<br />
Yellow-eyed junco<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="color: #990000;">Zinciro-San Isidro Junction</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Crested caracara<br />
American kestrel<br />
Northern raven<br />
Mexican duck<br />
House finch<br />
Eastern bluebird<br />
Cassin's kingbird<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
Chipping sparrow<br />
Vesper sparrow<br />
Rufous-crowned sparrow<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="color: #990000;">Brian's Road:</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Inca dove<br />
Brown-backed solitaire<br />
Gray silky-flycatcher<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
Blue mockingbird<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="color: #990000;">Erongaricuaro:</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Eurasian collared-dove<br />
House sparrow<br />
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Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-7432072818924061612014-02-07T00:02:00.001-06:002014-03-09T16:10:02.748-05:00Trip Report - August 1-8, 2013<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From left to right: Hugo, Jeanne, Glynnis</span></div>
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Caveat: I did not see/hear/experience the birds listed on this trip report. I intended to bird with sisters Glynnis (from Wales) and Jeanne (from Sarasota, Florida) but a couple days before their arrival a neighboring dog bonged my chin knocking out several front teeth and I spent the next days and months in dental chairs. Didn't I recently post how awful 2013 was to me?! <br />
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Anyway, I hooked them up with Hugo and they spent nearly a week scouring the countryside. Sad to say for me, they all had numerous lifers and found several new species for this area, which they reported to me each evening (they stayed in my casita). I would have been thrilled to be with them any of these days. Notable sightings are marked with a star and in bright red font. <br />
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Jeanne is president of Sarasota Audubon Society, and it is my greatest hope she returns soon with a group so she can show me around my turf in the hopes of spotting some of the unusual birds she saw and listed on this report. <br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Species by location</span></u></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d;"><u>Jaracuaro Bridge:</u></span></strong><br />
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Jeanne and Georgia checking out the Black-polled yellowthroat</div>
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<em>Common gallinule</em><br />
<em>American coot</em><br />
<em>Snowy egret</em><br />
<em>Little blue heron (one in white, one in calico phase)</em><br />
<em>Tricolored heron</em><br />
<em>Cattle egret</em><br />
<em>Great blue heron</em><br />
<em>Great egret</em><br />
<em>White-faced ibis</em><br />
<em>Mexican duck</em><br />
<em>Ruddy duck</em><br />
<em>Black-necked stilt</em><br />
<em>Northern jacana</em><br />
<em>Killdeer</em><br />
<em>White-throated swift</em><br />
<em>Black phoebe</em><br />
<em>Vermilion flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Cliff swallow</em><br />
<em>Barn swallow</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>Bushtit</em><br />
<em>Bewick's wren</em><br />
<em>Yellow warbler</em><br />
<em>Black-polled yellowthroat</em><br />
<em>Song sparrow</em><br />
<em>Red-winged blackbird</em><br />
<em>Yellow-headed blackbird</em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d;"><u>El Chirimoyo (Georgia's house):</u></span></strong><br />
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Glynnis in front of Georgia's House</div>
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<em>Inca dove</em><br />
<em>White-throated swift</em><br />
<em>Broad-billed hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Berylline hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Magnificent hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Cliff swallow</em><br />
<em>Barn swallow</em><br />
<em>Gray silky-flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Blue mockingbird</em><br />
<em>Curve-billed thrasher</em><br />
<em>White-throated thrush</em><br />
<em>American robin</em><br />
<em>Black-headed grosbeak</em><br />
<em>Blue grosbeak</em><br />
<em>Varied bunting (juvenile)</em><br />
<em>Rufous-capped brush-finch</em><br />
<em>Canyon towhee</em><br />
<em>White-collared seedeater</em><br />
<em>Black-vented oriole</em><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><strong><u>Erongaricuaro's Canal Area:</u></strong></span><br />
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<em>Northern jacana</em><br />
<em>Common yellowthroat</em><br />
<em>Black-polled yellowthroat</em><br />
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<em>Lesser goldfinch</em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d;"><u>La Estacion (old train station outside Erongaricuaro):</u></span></strong><br />
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Hugo and Jeanne at La Estacion</div>
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<em>Black vulture</em><br />
<em>Sharp-shinned hawk</em><br />
<em>Red-tailed hawk</em><br />
<em>White-tipped dove</em><br />
<em>Blue-throated hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Acorn woodpecker</em><br />
<em>Ladder-backed woodpecker</em><br />
<em>Northern flicker (red-shafted)</em><br />
<em><span style="color: black;">Cassin's kingbird</span></em><br />
<em>Tufted flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Pileated flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Pine flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Buff-breasted flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Barn swallow</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>Canyon wren</em><br />
<em>Bewick's wren</em><br />
<em>Spotted wren</em><br />
<em>Gray silky-flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Blue mockingbird</em><br />
<em>Brown-backed solitaire</em><br />
<em>Orange-billed nightingale-thrush</em><br />
<em>Eastern bluebird</em><br />
<em>White-throated thrush</em><br />
<em>Slate-throated redstart</em><br />
<em>Painted redstart</em><br />
<em>Rufous-capped warbler</em><br />
<em>Hepatic tanager</em><br />
<em>Flame-colored tanager</em><br />
<em>Black-headed grosbeak</em><br />
<em>Blue grosbeak</em><br />
<em>Indigo bunting</em><br />
<em>Hybrid towhee (Spotted/Collared)</em><br />
<em>White-collared seedeater</em><br />
<em>Chipping sparrow</em><br />
<em>Stripe-headed sparrow</em><br />
<em>Rusty sparrow</em><br />
<em>House finch</em><br />
<em>Black-headed siskin</em><br />
<em>Lesser goldfinch</em><br />
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<em>Turkey vulture</em><br />
<em>Red-tailed hawk</em><br />
<em>American kestrel</em><br />
<em>Peregrine falcon</em><br />
<em><span style="color: red;">*Long-tailed wood-partridge (OMG, they got this new species for the area...at least for us. I haven't checked with the ornithologists in Morelia)</span></em><br />
<em>White-tipped dove</em><br />
<em><span style="color: red;">*Ferruginous pygmy-owl (heard)</span></em><br />
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<em>White-eared hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Berylline hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Mountain trogon</em><br />
<em>Hairy woodpecker</em><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em><span style="color: black;">Cassin's kingbird</span> </em></span><br />
<em>Transvolcanic jay</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>Mexican chickadee</em><br />
<em>Bushtit</em><br />
<em>White-breasted nuthatch</em><br />
<em>Brown creeper</em><br />
<em>Loggerhead shrike</em><br />
<em>Cassin's vireo </em><br />
<em>Hutton's vireo</em><br />
<em>Russet nightingale-thrush</em><br />
<em>Ruddy-capped nightingale-thrush</em><br />
<em>White-throated thrush</em><br />
<em>Crescent-chested warbler</em><br />
<em>Slate-throated redstart</em><br />
<em>Painted redstart</em><br />
<em>Olive warbler</em><br />
<em>Red warbler</em><br />
<em>Striped sparrow</em><br />
<em>Yellow-eyed junco</em><br />
<em>Red crossbill</em><br />
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<em>Berylline hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Blue-throated hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Elegant trogon (male and female)</em><br />
<em>Ladder-backed woodpecker</em><br />
<em>White-striped wood-creeper </em><br />
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<em>Greater pewee</em><br />
<em>Pine flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Transvolcanic jay</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>Mexican chickadee</em><br />
<em>Bushtit</em><br />
<em>Gray silky-flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Plumbeous vireo</em><br />
<em>Warbling vireo</em><br />
<em>Blue mockingbird</em><br />
<em>Brown-backed solitaire</em><br />
<em>Eastern bluebird</em><br />
<em>White-throated thrush</em><br />
<em>Crescent-chested warbler</em><br />
<em>Grace's warbler</em><br />
<em>Black-and-white warbler</em><br />
<em>Painted redstart</em><br />
<em>Olive warbler</em><br />
<em>Hepatic tanager</em><br />
<em>Black-headed grosbeak</em><br />
<em>Canyon towhee</em><br />
<em>Hybrid towhee (Spotted/Collared)</em><br />
<em>White-collared seedeater</em><br />
<em>Cinnamon-bellied flower-piercer</em><br />
<em>Yellow-eyed junco</em><br />
<em>House finch</em><br />
<em>Red crossbill</em><br />
<em>Pine siskin</em><br />
<em>Black-headed siskin</em><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em>White-eared hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><em>Mountain trogon</em></span><br />
<em>White-striped woodcreeper</em><br />
<em>Tufted flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Transvolcanic jay</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>Bushtit</em><br />
<em>Brown creeper</em><br />
<em>Hutton's vireo</em><br />
<em>Russet nightingale-thrush</em><br />
<em>Slate-throated redstart</em><br />
<em>Olive warbler</em><br />
<em>Red warbler</em><br />
<em>Golden-browed warbler</em><br />
<em>Rufous-capped brush-finch </em><br />
<em>Hybrid towhee (Spotted/Collared)</em><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: #38761d;">Cerro Burro:</span></u></strong><br />
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<em>Mountain trogon</em><br />
<em><span style="color: black;">Acorn woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em>Hairy woodpecker</em><br />
<em>White-striped woodpecker</em><br />
<em>Steller's jay</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>House wren</em><br />
<em>Curved-billed thrasher</em><br />
<em>Eastern bluebird</em><br />
<em>American robin</em><br />
<em>Black-and-white warbler</em><br />
<em>Golden-browed warbler</em><br />
<em>Canyon towhee</em><br />
<em>Chipping sparrow</em><br />
<em>Yellow-eyed junco</em><br />
<em>Lesser goldfinch</em><br />
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<em><span style="color: black;">Acorn woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em>Greater pewee</em><br />
<em>Common raven</em><br />
<em>Spotted wren</em><br />
<em>Grace's warbler</em><br />
<em>Black-headed siskin</em><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: #274e13;">Tacambaro's Rio Corucha:</span></u></strong><br />
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<em><span style="color: black;">Cooper's hawk</span></em><br />
<em>Inca dove</em><br />
<em>Squirrel cuckoo</em><br />
<em>Lesser roadrunner</em><br />
<em>Grove-billed ani</em><br />
<em>White-naped swift</em><br />
<em>Golden-crowned emerald</em><br />
<em>Violet-crowned hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Russet-crowned motmot</em><br />
<em>Golden-cheeked woodpecker</em><br />
<em>Great kiskadee</em><br />
<em>Thick-billed kingbird</em><br />
<em>Pileated flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Vermilion flycatcher</em><br />
<em>Rose-throated becard</em><br />
<em>Golden vireo</em><br />
<em>Grey-crowned yellowthroat</em><br />
<em>White-collared seedeater</em><br />
<em>Blue-black grassquit</em><br />
<em>Striped sparrow</em><br />
<em>Streaked-backed oriole</em><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: #274e13;">Pedernales' Arroyo Frio:</span></u></strong><br />
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<em>West Mexican chachalaca</em><br />
<em>Squirrel cuckoo</em><br />
<em>Dusky hummingbird</em><br />
<em>Green kingfisher</em><br />
<em>Golden-cheeked woodpecker</em><br />
<em>Golden vireo</em><br />
<em>Grey-crowned yellowthroat</em><br />
<em>Fan-tailed warbler</em><br />
<em>Louisiana waterthrush</em><br />
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The original idea for this festival came from Jim McKeever and Alfredo Garcia Lucio, creators of Camino Silvestre, a company given to lovers of nature and appreciation of birds. They have two stores in San Miguel de Allende. <br />
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Beneficiaries of the festival were El Charco del Ingenio and Mexico Audubon Society. <br />
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I've worked closely with the Audubon group these past few years and was happy to help recruit several key speakers and guides. A special treat for me was spending the weekend with Sheri L. Williamson, author of the Peterson Guide to the Hummingbirds of North America, in the lovely home of Linda and Saul Whynman. Believe me, I asked Sheri every question I could think of related to hummers and their behaviors. <br />
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Most of the activities (presentations and bird walks) occurred on the grounds of El Charco, a wonderful botanical garden in San Miguel. I cannot complement El Charco's staff too much for their hard work in making the logistics go so smoothly. Hats off to Mario and his staff. <br />
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Another half day was spent at Rancho Los Labradores on the highway to Dolores Hidalgo, where I was able to bird again with Drew (see previous trip report related to the Clapper rail) and finally met his lovely wife. <br />
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The festival was bi-lingual and populated with many exceptional speakers, post-grad students, and serious hummingbird fans. It was so successful a commitment has been made to organize another in 2014. <br />
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If you're curious about the festival, check out the website: <a href="http://www.festivaldelcolibri.org/">www.festivaldelcolibri.org</a>. You can chose English of Spanish. <br />
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And do consider attending the next festival. There might even be a side trip to Lake Patzcuaro to see additional hummingbird species, ones not found in San Miguel de Allende. <br />
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<em><span style="color: #274e13;">Linda Whynman, president emeritus of Mexico Audubon Society, and I enjoying the festival</span></em></div>
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<br />Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-26751465554987415052014-02-03T21:52:00.001-06:002014-02-03T21:52:32.304-06:002013 - it came and went, thank goodnessIt has been more than a year since I've posted anything on my blog. All I can say is I am glad to have 2013 pass by.....what a year of bad and sad things for me. <br />
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Speaking of birds: here's to 2014, which is on a good roll what with yesterday's Super Bowl romping of the Broncos. I am so proud of Seattle's Seahawks.<br />
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I lost my camera in a taxi in Istanbul in May and didn't replace it until November. I listened to Mike Judd, Dennis Paulson, and a couple others, and bought a Canon PowerShot SX50 HS. I am still getting used to it but feel competent enough to start taking and posting bird photos from here on. <br />
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I birded this past year but most of it occurred in other locations and this blog is devoted to birding in and around Patzcuaro. The next few postings will highlight some of my 2013 activities. And then I promise to be better at 2014 bird sightings and trip reports. <br />
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Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-70057092284747013062012-10-10T11:22:00.000-05:002012-10-10T11:23:08.773-05:00Trip Report - Oct 3-5, 2012 - Finally, a Clapper Rail!Visiting birders Drew and son Andrew spent three days with Hugo and me. Birding can often be a challenge for many of us but what if we were wheelchair bound and able to use only one hand..... That's Drew. What a man, and what a son. Here are the birds we saw/heard in various locations around Lake Patzcuaro and Tacambaro.<br />
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">View from the bridge to Jaracuaro</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Quesadillas in Erongaricuaro</span></em></div>
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Oct 3, 2012 - Bridge to Jaracuaro </div>
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Cassin's kingbird</div>
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Marsh wren</div>
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Little blue heron</div>
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Cattle egret</div>
Barn owl<br />
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Great egret</div>
Snowy egret<br />
Tri-colored egret<br />
Belted kingfisher<br />
Black-necked stilt<br />
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White-faced ibis</div>
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Vermilion flycatcher</div>
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Barn swallow</div>
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Cooper's hawk</div>
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Oct 3, 2012 - Georgia's house in Arocutin<br />
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Berylline hummingbird</div>
Magnificent hummingbird<br />
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Broad-billed hummingbird</div>
Inca dove<br />
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Oct 3, 2012 - Erongaricuaro<br />
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Oct 3, 2012 - La Estacion outside of Erongaricuaro</div>
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Canyon towhee<br />
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Yellow-rumped warbler</div>
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Common raven</div>
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Summer tanager</div>
Berylline hummingbird<br />
Buff-breasted flycatcher<br />
Great-horned owl (heard)<br />
Ladder-backed woodpecker<br />
Curve-billed thrasher<br />
Wilson's warbler<br />
Bushtit<br />
Slate-throated redstart<br />
Greater pewee<br />
Hermit warbler<br />
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Townsend's warbler</div>
Black-throated gray warbler<br />
Mexican chickadee<br />
Gray silky-flycatcher<br />
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Oct 3, 2012 - Columpio outside of Zarzamora</div>
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Hermit warbler</div>
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Grace's warbler</div>
Hepatic tanager<br />
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Common raven</div>
Painted redstart<br />
Red-faced warbler<br />
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Hybrid towhee (Collared x Spotted)</div>
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Oct 4, 2012 - Rio Corucha south of Tacambaro</div>
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Great-tailed grackle<br />
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Greater pewee</div>
Stripe-headed sparrow<br />
Banded quail - a large covey with numerous juveniles playing in the road<br />
Groove-billed ani<br />
Inca dove<br />
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Black vulture</div>
Turkey vulture<br />
Happy wren (heard)<br />
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Blue-black grassquit</div>
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Great kiskadee</div>
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Violet-crowned hummingbird</div>
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American kestrel</div>
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Northern rough-winged swallow</div>
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Blue-gray gnatcatcher</div>
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Golden-crowned emerald</div>
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Oct 4, 2012 - Arroyo Frio Balneario</div>
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Rufous-capped warbler<br />
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Ferruginous pygmy-owl (a pair)</div>
Black-and-white warbler<br />
Summer tanager<br />
Streak-backed oriole<br />
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Wilson's warbler</div>
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Thick-billed kingbird</div>
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Dusky hummingbird</div>
Hooded oriole<br />
Canyon wren (heard)<br />
Spotted wren<br />
Happy wren (heard)<br />
Blue-gray gnatcatcher<br />
Great kiskadee<br />
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White-throated robin</div>
Russet-crowned motmot<br />
Unidentified buteo<br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;"><em>Sharp-eyed Hugo always spots something special</em></span></div>
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Oct 5, 2012 - Bridge to Jaracuaro</div>
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Clapper rail - my first sighting at Lake Patzcuaro, a lifer for Hugo</div>
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Wikimedia Photo</span></em></div>
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Northern waterthrush</div>
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Marsh wren</div>
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American coot</div>
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Tri-colored heron</div>
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Great blue heron</div>
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Snowy egret </div>
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Great egret</div>
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White-faced ibis</div>
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Barn owl (a pair)</div>
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White-collared seedeater</div>
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Killdeer</div>
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Bronzed cowbird</div>
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Vermilion flycatcher</div>
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Belted kingfisher</div>
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Blue mockingbird</div>
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Blue-winged teal</div>
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Common yellowthroat</div>
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Cooper's hawk</div>
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Turkey vulture</div>
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Song sparrow</div>
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Cliff swallow</div>
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Barn swallow</div>
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Common raven</div>
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Oct 5, 2012 - Columpio outside Zarzamora</div>
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Hermit warbler</div>
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Slate-throated redstart</div>
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Common raven</div>
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Mexican chickadee</div>
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Brown creeper</div>
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Broad-tailed hummingbird</div>
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Ruby-crowned kinglet</div>
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Hepatic tanager</div>
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Pine flycatcher</div>
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Cassin's vireo</div>
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Red-faced warbler</div>
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Yellow-eyed junco</div>
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Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-77814667883071823322012-06-05T14:14:00.000-05:002012-06-05T14:14:30.473-05:00Aztec Thrush near PatzcuaroAztec Thrush.....by the side of the road. On May 12, 2012, five of us in two cars were heading from Patzcuaro to Zihuatanejo for some fun in the sun. Imagine my surprise when we flushed three Aztec thrush by the side of the road not far from my house. I would have immediately pulled over; however, we were on a very curvy section of the libre without space to stop. <br />
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There were three serious birders among us. Two in my vehicle and one in the vehicle behind. No doubt about it - they were Aztec thrush.<br />
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Hugo reported seeing them a number of years ago above Erongaricuaro, and we've kept our eyes peeled for them. Of course, seeing them fly off from the side of the road doesn't fulfill my desire to REALLY see them, so I am hoping to visit the area soon to try to relocate them. Until then, they are BVD birds (i.e., better view desired).<br />
<br />Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-38552849232969843202012-06-04T20:40:00.004-05:002012-06-04T20:40:58.174-05:00Another Canyon Wren Nest.....Under the roof of my patio heater. This is the second time they've used the heater as a nesting site. I didn't realize they'd nested there until I bought a new gas tank and was going to test the recently repaired starter. Out came one of the parents. Surprise!<br />
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I climbed the ladder, and, lo and behold, I found three freshly, and I mean freshly, hatched chicks. That was on May 19. <br />
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I photographed the nest again a week later on May 27. Only two chicks were in the nest. One was much smaller than the other. <br />
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<br />My last photograph was yesterday June 3. Only one chick remained and it was ready to fledge. In fact, it jumped from the heater onto my grassy yard, I had a dickens of a time getting it to stay in the nest area. Finally I put it in a plastic jar without lid so it couldn't so easily escape, and I could return it to the nest so its parents could continue to feed it. <br />
Today, one day later, it's gone. I hear them chittering in my yard so I know they're around. <br />
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Next on my to-do list is to buy some chicken wire to enclose the top of the heater. There's got to be a better place for them to nest. Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-24247422405608228442012-04-03T20:49:00.000-05:002012-04-03T20:49:49.988-05:00Trip Report - Tacambaro - March 2-4. 2012For the weekend of March 2-4, Hazel and Ryon came over from Joco (short for Jocotepec, which is on the shore of Lake Chapala). They're the ones who instigated last year's trip to Colima. See previous posting about that trip if you're interested in the birds of Colima. <br />
Sorry, there are no photos this time, just data re birds seen/heard (not in taxonomic order). I was busy watching birds....oh so lazy......<br />
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For me, the best bird of the trip was found at the top of Cerro Burro. A hybrid hummingbird: Magnificient x Berylline. I've been asked to head back to the mountain to try for a photo. Watch for another post if I succeed, even with my point and shoot camera. <br />
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<u>Location - Rio Corucha:</u><br />
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Orange-crowned warbler<br />
Wilson's warbler<br />
Golden vireo<br />
White-collared seedeater<br />
Blue grosbeak<br />
White-throated robin<br />
Blue mockingbird<br />
Vermilion flycatcher<br />
Striped-headed sparrow<br />
Lazuli bunting<br />
<span style="color: black;">Rufous-capped brushfinch</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Ferruginous pygmy-owl</span><br />
Violet-crowned hummingbird<br />
Ash-throated flycatcher<br />
Canyon wren<br />
Groove-billed ani<br />
Turkey vulture<br />
Black vulture<br />
Northern rough-winged swallow<br />
Social flycatcher<br />
Greater kiskadee<br />
Western tanager<br />
Thick-billed kingbird<br />
Blue-gray gnatcatcher<br />
Hooded oriole<br />
Golden-crowned emerald<br />
Happy wren<br />
Tropical kingbird<br />
Dusky-capped flycatcher<br />
Hepatic tanager<br />
Cassin's kingbird<br />
White-napped swifts (somebody had cut a path to the top of the waterfall - this was my first opportunity to see the cascada, so now I know how to get there in the future when the plants are too overgrown to see the waterfall.)<br />
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<u>Location - Arroyo Frio</u><br />
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Green kingfisher<br />
Wilson's warbler<br />
Blue-gray gnatcatcher<br />
Canyon wren<br />
Fan-tailed warbler<br />
White-throated robin<br />
Rufous-backed thrush<br />
? empid <br />
Inca dove<br />
Turkey vulture<br />
Black vulture<br />
Happy wren<br />
Nashville warbler<br />
Berylline hummingbird<br />
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<u>Location - Cerro Hueco:</u><br />
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Great-tailed grackle<br />
Rufous-backed robin<br />
Warbling vireo<br />
Inca dove<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
Lincoln's sparrow<br />
Black-headed grosbeak<br />
Bullock's oriole<br />
Rusty sparrow<br />
Stripe-headed sparrow<br />
Cassin's kingbird<br />
Say's phoebe<br />
Northern mockingbird<br />
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<span style="color: black;">White-crowned sparrow (I didn't see or hear this bird. I am not counting it on my list even tho' it would be a new Mexican bird for me....But Ryon insisted that's what he saw and he was insistent about it since it's seen at Lake Chapala.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">American robin</span><br />
Varied bunting<br />
Blue-black grassquit (basic plumage)<br />
Northern rough-winged sparrow<br />
Berylline hummingbird<br />
Black-headed siskin<br />
Wilson's warbler<br />
Eastern bluebird<br />
Blue mockingbird<br />
Northern raven<br />
Chipping sparrow<br />
House sparrow<br />
House wren<br />
House finch<br />
Vermilion flycatcher<br />
Nashville warbler<br />
Blue gray gnatcatcher<br />
American kestrel<br />
Blue grosbeak<br />
Bewick's wren<br />
Lesser goldfinch<br />
Bronze cowbird<br />
Black-vented oriole<br />
Hepatic tanager<br />
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<u>Location - road to Tecurio</u><br />
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Squirrel cuckoo<br />
Eastern bluebird<br />
Lincoln's sparrow<br />
Nashville warbler<br />
Golden-cheeked woodpecker<br />
Acorn woodpecker<br />
Rusty sparrow<br />
? empid ?Least<br />
Turkey vulture<br />
Black vulture<br />
Cassin's kingbird<br />
White-tipped dove<br />
Vermilion flycatcher<br />
Great pewee<br />
Yellow-rumped warbler<br />
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<u>Location - Cerro Burro:</u><br />
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Red-tailed hawk<br />
Horned lark<br />
Chipping sparrow<br />
American robin<br />
American kestrel<br />
Say's phoebe<br />
Townsend's warbler<br />
Hourse finch<br />
Pine siskin<br />
Elegant euphonia<br />
Eastern bluebird<br />
Western bluebird<br />
Northern raven<br />
American coot<br />
Cassin's kingbird<br />
Yellow-eyed junco<br />
Northern harrier<br />
Barn swallow<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
Hybrid towhee (Spotted x Collared)<br />
Buff-breasted flycatcher<br />
Lesser roadrunner<br />
Slate-throated redstart<br />
Steller's jay<br />
Rufous-capped brush-finch<br />
Social flycatcher<br />
Lesser goldfinch<br />
Red warbler<br />
Ladder-backed woodpecker<br />
White-eared hummingbird<br />
Osprey<br />
Hepatic tanager<br />
Golden-browed warbler<br />
Hutton's vireo<br />
Ruby-crowned kinglet<br />
Hermit warbler<br />
Warbling vireo<br />
Black-headed grosbeak<br />
Hybrid hummingbird (Magnficent x Berylline) near top of Cerro BurroGeorgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-86544618845876969832012-03-21T01:11:00.001-05:002012-03-21T01:14:17.525-05:00Birding Morelia, Michoacan: Pico Azul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPThbVPTQL9RwYepb61AHI6GW6_GMTcIkwTbY9Ff-efVZXLi-1oryVu00cRUsYwFqm4Vk1mYTDtlwIyKoiU5dC8wozGIJR0Ne_xqHEnhV2wU8y9Jj8mLA4ktLmML-IHJXOx2aflUoHxY/s1600/bosque+056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPThbVPTQL9RwYepb61AHI6GW6_GMTcIkwTbY9Ff-efVZXLi-1oryVu00cRUsYwFqm4Vk1mYTDtlwIyKoiU5dC8wozGIJR0Ne_xqHEnhV2wU8y9Jj8mLA4ktLmML-IHJXOx2aflUoHxY/s320/bosque+056.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3Ds080I2zad5weUR35Ta5hbEESqESYthK5OOLxdsY8-jV1rhlK8sk0FdAkBl2gFJq6bWMFl8CHAcpyFL6bnOL7YhFs4YVa_8GYDZwKz0IF6YhQXf5VAoc3DD9sETrzIFE0meRAq_KXA/s1600/bosque+058.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3Ds080I2zad5weUR35Ta5hbEESqESYthK5OOLxdsY8-jV1rhlK8sk0FdAkBl2gFJq6bWMFl8CHAcpyFL6bnOL7YhFs4YVa_8GYDZwKz0IF6YhQXf5VAoc3DD9sETrzIFE0meRAq_KXA/s320/bosque+058.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkIPiCqklmcpnbxhblUm9ckTVpWscVT3LmC9JACpomUcs6r4aGO3GFE95lAr-LFBuOaGmVMBGI5VmVp7S1EJP_yAv-hgbee-6Tt19s2aOVXkmxhoDP-McNLki5PXFabflhiX1a1bFHA8/s1600/bosque+060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkIPiCqklmcpnbxhblUm9ckTVpWscVT3LmC9JACpomUcs6r4aGO3GFE95lAr-LFBuOaGmVMBGI5VmVp7S1EJP_yAv-hgbee-6Tt19s2aOVXkmxhoDP-McNLki5PXFabflhiX1a1bFHA8/s320/bosque+060.JPG" width="240" /></a><br />
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Until this past weekend, I had found only okay habitat and birding spots in and around Morelia. Thanks to graduate ornithology students, Leonel and Eugenia, for taking me to Pico Azul, an absolutely wonderful bosque (forest) above Morelia. Pico Azul is truly an amazing place due to mixed canopy, higher elevation (I was told about 2500 meters), native plants, habitat protection by the nearby village, decent roads, non-arduous hiking trails, and proximity to Morelia. Oh, less I forget, the diversity of birds. <br />
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Here's what we saw/heard during 4 hours early Saturday March 17 (St. Patrick's Day):<br />
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Note: not in taxonomic order:<br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bewick's wren</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Inca dove</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blue mockingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yellow-eyed junco</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Orange-crowned warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lesser goldfinch</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mountain trogon (4 different birds)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Brown creeper</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Slate-throated redstart</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mexican chickadee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Dusky-capped flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Acorn woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Cooper's hawk</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Ruby-crowned kinglet</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hepatic tanager</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-headed grosbeak</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hooded grosbeak (only my second spotting of this bird)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hermit thrush</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Western bluebird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">White-tipped dove</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Greater pewee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Buff-breasted flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hermit warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Yellow-rumped warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Chestnut-sided shrike-vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Cordilleran flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Bullock's oriole</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Tufted flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Red-faced warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">White-eared hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Mexican jay (or whatever our local species is now called)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Gray silky-flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Crescent-chested warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Townsend's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Wilson's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">White-striped woodcreeper</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hutton's vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Plumbeous vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Olive warbler</span></em><br />
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We dipped on other species that Leonel and Eugenia have seen in the area, among them Red warbler, Green-striped brush-finch (they say its supercillium is yellow, not white), Rufous-crowned brush-finch, Gray-barred wren, Grace's warbler, and various owls. <br />
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Meanwhile check out some photos of the the habitat.<br />
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p.s. If you want directions to this amazing birding spot, email me at antep12{at}gmail(dot)com.Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-6671419053229470842012-02-27T19:29:00.001-06:002012-02-28T17:36:11.061-06:00A Tale of a Pied-billed Grebe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBUI0dsRuFRaJvTvgukS4xTrlC9X4QrGfYpOZfU6CsSiXaoCqc4LXqsw7gNZ37xw-XZ3su-m4mRIeihJAYA7J6Rbi7odw9XOhaxwr22jWImoBGja6AwMVU_FEMB5KJ7a1jAqsyqt-AMg/s1600/IMG_2871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBUI0dsRuFRaJvTvgukS4xTrlC9X4QrGfYpOZfU6CsSiXaoCqc4LXqsw7gNZ37xw-XZ3su-m4mRIeihJAYA7J6Rbi7odw9XOhaxwr22jWImoBGja6AwMVU_FEMB5KJ7a1jAqsyqt-AMg/s320/IMG_2871.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>There I was on my sofa last night about to finish a good book when my dog Lucy started to bark and bark. <br />
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Up the steps came Javier, Andreja and their youngsters Gaia and Lenart. They were distraught about a bird Javier had found while canoeing in a marshy area along the lake. Caught in a fishing net, the bird was exhausted. Javier managed to get it untangled and decided that I was the only person who might be able to care for it. Yep, evidence that I have the reputation of being the local bird lady.<br />
They thought it a duck. These photos will show that it was a juvenile Pied-billed grebe. <br />
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After examining the bird for injuries (none noted), the next question was what to do. I didn't really know, because I've never been that close to a baby PB grebe and it was about 9:00 PM. Dark was the night with only a sliver of moon. Even so, I thought about taking it to the lake. That's when I dialed Dr. Fernando Villasenor Gomez, ornithologist and dean of the biology department at the Universidad de Michoacana in Morelia. Thankfully he answered the phone and advised me to keep it in the box for the night and release it in the lake in the morning.<br />
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The only other rescue I've done was a hummingbird that was banging itself against my window at 10 PM. I kept it in a covered box with a sugar water feeder, and it flew off in the morning. In this case, I wasn't too sure how the grebe would fare.<br />
Well, in the morning, Lucy and I found the grebe alive. It was sitting in a bowl of water I'd put inside the box. It seemed to me to be seeking its normal habitat. So off we went to the lake. <br />
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I took it out of the box and tried to delicately place it in the water. Wowsers, with flapping wings and moving legs, it sunk in a flash and didn't surface, much to my concern. I know they can dive and swim under water but I expected it to come up somewhere in sight. The release was a let down. A big part of me wanted colorful stars and balloons to explode above this marshy spot, an indication that all was well. Not so. <br />
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I hope it swam to safety while washing off all evidence of humanoid touches. <br />
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<em>This is the spot where I released the grebe.</em></div><br />
As the family left my house, Gaia who was celebrating her 8th birthday told me that the grebe was the best gift Mother Nature could have given her. Feliz cumpleanos Gaia.Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-29111251321091212772012-02-17T23:01:00.000-06:002012-02-17T23:01:31.837-06:00Feb 7, 2012 Trip Report - West Side of Lake PatzcuaroIt's been awhile since I've posted a trip report. It's about time.....<br />
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</div>Two birders from the Pacific Northwest (Joe M. and Ann D. of Bellingham, Washington), wanted to see some birds before a meditation retreat at Casa Werma. They met me at the bridge to Jaracuaro and afterwards we stopped at my house to see hummers and orioles and then birded La Estacion near Erongaricuaro and Columpio near La Zarzamora. <br />
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Birds seen/heard....if my count is correct, there should be 87 species:<br />
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<em><span style="color: #990000;">Least grebe (a new species seen from the bridge)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Pied-billed grebe</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Tricolored heron</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Little blue heron</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Snowy egret</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Cattle egret</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">White-faced ibis</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Green-winged teal</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Mallard ( Mexican duck)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Cinnamon teal</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black vulture</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Turkey vulture</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Red-tailed hawk (we spotted both dark and light morphs)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">American kestrel</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Common moorhen</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">American coot</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-necked stilt</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Killdeer</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Long-billed dowitcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Least sandpiper</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Mourning dove (large flocks, more than 100. None of us had seen this many doves at once.)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Inca dove</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Barn owl</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Broad-billed hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">White-eared hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Berylline hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Blue-throated hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Magnificent hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Mountain trogon</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Acorn woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Ladder-backed woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Pileated flycatcher (a new species for La Estacion)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Tufted flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Pine flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black phoebe</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Vermilion flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Cassin's kingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Roby-crowned kinglet</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Gray silky-flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Marsh wren</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Blue mockingbird (one was mimicking a chestnut-sided shrike-vireo after hearing my recording)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Esatern bluebird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Western bluebird (only the second sighting in this area for me)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Orange-billed nightingale-thrush</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">American robin</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Blue-gray gnatcatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Bushtit</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Mexican chickadee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Bridled titmouse</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Common raven</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">House sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">House finch</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Lesser goldfinch</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Olive warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Orange-crowned warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Crescent-chested warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Yellow-rumped warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-throated gray warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Townsend's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hermit warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Common yellowthroat</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-polled yellowthroat</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Wilson's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Red-faced warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Red warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Painted redstart</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Slate-throated redstart</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Rufous-capped warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hepatic tanager</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hybrid towhee (Spotted x Collared)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Canyon towhee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Rusty sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Chipping sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Song sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Lincoln's sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Yellow-eyed junco</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-headed grosbeak</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Indigo bunting</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Red-winged blackbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Yellow-headed blackbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Brown-headed cowbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Hooded oriole</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Bullock's oriole</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-backed oriole</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #990000;">Black-vented oriole (photo below was taken at my feeder)</span></em><br />
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Thanks to Glen N (Patzcuaro/Austin) we now have a new home for barn owls. And thanks to Max, Hugo, Francis and Lucky Lucy the dog for helping me with this project.<br />
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As of January 23, there are still at least two barn owls living under the bridge to Jaracuaro. I couldn't determine if the third one is still there. <br />
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When the next brood of owlets are looking for a new home, there's one to be had nearby at Arocutin's commune. Mil gracias for the commune's residents who readily agreed to let me place the nesting box on their property. BTW, Max is a resident of the commune, is finishing a PhD, and is a very proud father of a less than month old daughter. <br />
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We'll monitor the nesting box and let you know if/when barn owls use it.<br />
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Getting ready to hoist the heavy bugger up this tree.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here we go, documented by the following photos</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hugo and Max did most of the hoisting. I took photos and Francis took notes. </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Climbing high, I was allowed to remove the ropes. From this vantage point, I took the next photos . What a view from the nesting box! The smile on my face is an indication of how much fun it was, especially since I didn't have to hoist the bugger up the tree.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This photo shows where the box was placed in the tree.</div><br />
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The rainy season ended in October, and the countryside is turning brown. Nows the time for my water feature to bring in the birds. And it sure is. <br />
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I looked out my kitchen window yesterday around 11 a.m. and spotted the following species splashing about: <br />
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Rufous-backed robin<br />
Nashville warbler<br />
Wilson's warbler<br />
Yellow-rumped warbler<br />
Orange-crowned warbler<br />
Black-and-white warbler<br />
Black-throated gray warbler<br />
Townsend's warbler<br />
Lincoln's sparrow<br />
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I also heard the following in nearby trees and shrubs:<br />
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Blue mockingbird<br />
Orange-billed nightingale thrush<br />
Berylline hummingbird<br />
Broad-billed hummingbird<br />
Canyon towhee<br />
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All are commonly seen this time of year. I'm not sad that there wasn't a rarity in the bunch, because I know one day I'll look out and will spot something unusual. I just know it.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As you can see, I need to surround the cascada with appropriate plants. But that means I must dig up the dirt, screen out the rocks, and amend the dirt with oak-leaf compost. Not an easy job but one I'll tackle before rainy season starts in May. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, I almost forgot to mention this little nocturnal creature. It's called a tlacuache in Mexico; an oppossum of yet to be determined species. S/he likes having water handy as well. </div><br />
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Okay, so did you guess correctly? <br />
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This juvenile Gray silky-flycatcher (<em>Ptilogonys cinereus</em>) spent some time outside my kitchen window, enough time for me to snap these photos.Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-87026362605010291722011-08-24T18:20:00.001-05:002011-08-26T17:58:56.066-05:00Another Trip to Colima Area, March 2011<div></div>Hazel and Ryon are birders living in Jocotepec on Lake Chapala and Winnipeg, Canada. I really enjoy birding with them and especially appreciate their significant financial contribution that allowed Hugo to participate in last year's Long Bird (Ontario) Bird Obervatory program for Latin American birders. <br />
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They met me and Hugo in Colima for a 3-day birding trip from March 14-16, 2011. We chose not to bird Ciudad Guzman but concentrated our efforts at Volcan de Fuego (all the way to the microwave towers), the road to Laguna La Maria, and Agua Dulce, which is northwest of Colima on the road to Minatitlan. We stayed at a B+B in Comala. <br />
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Although we missed Long-tailed wood-partridge, Crested guan and any nightjars, we saw many other birds, especially some new woodpeckers. I even added some birds (marked below with *) to my life list!<br />
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<div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><em><u>Birds seen/heard</u>:</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Great blue heron</em></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Cattle egret</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>White ibis</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>White-faced ibis</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Black vulture</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Turkey vulture</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>White-tailed kite</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Sharp-shinned hawk</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Gray hawk</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Crested caracara</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>American kestrel</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>West Mexican chachalaca</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Banded quail</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>American coot</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Rock pigeon</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Inca dove</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>White-tipped dove</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Lilac-crowned parrot:</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Squirrel cuckoo</em></span><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Groove-billed ani</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">*Colima pygmy-owl (heard)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ferruginous pygmy-owl</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Golden-crowned emerald</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Broad-billed hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cinnamon hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Violet-crowned hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Berylline hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Broad-tailed hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Allen's hummingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mountain trogon (heard)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Elegant trogon</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Acorn woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Golden-cheeked woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Golden-fronted woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yellow-bellied sapsucker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ladder-backed woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">*Smoky-brown woodpecker:</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Gray-crowned woodpecker</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Linneated or pale-billed woodpecker (bad light prevented positive ID for me but Hugo got a better look and added it to his list as a Pale-billed)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">*Ivory-billed :</span></em><br />
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</div><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tufted flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Greater pewee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pacific-slope flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cordilleran flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Vermilion flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dusky-capped flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Brown-crested flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Great kiskadee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Social flycatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tropical kingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cassin's kingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Gray-collared becard</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Rose-throated becard</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">*Masked tityra:</span></em><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tree swallow</span></em></div><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Barn swallow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ruby-crowned kinglet</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Spotted wren</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Happy wren</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">*Sinaloa wren</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Northern mockingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Curve-billed thrasher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blue mockingbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Brown-backed solitaire</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Swainson's thrush</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">White-throated robin</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Rufous-backed robin</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">American robin</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blue-gray gnatcatcher</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mexican chickadee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bridled titmouse</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Loggerhead shrike</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Common raven</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dwarf vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Plumbeous vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cassin's vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hutton's vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Golden vireo</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">House finch</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lesser goldfinch</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Orange-crowned warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Nashville warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tropical parula</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yellow-rumped warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Black-throated gray warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Black-throated green warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Townsend's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Black-and-white warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">American redstart</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">MacGillivray's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Wilson's warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Red-faced warbler</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Painted redstart</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Slate-throated redstart</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yellow-breasted chat</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Summer tanager</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Western tanager</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">*Scrub euphonia</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Elegant euphonia</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Olive sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Canyon towhee</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Stripe-headed sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Chipping sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lark sparrow</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Black-headed grosbeak</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blue grosbeak</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lazuli bunting</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Indigo bunting</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Varied bunting</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Great-tailed grackle</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bronzed cowbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Brown-headed cowbird</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Streak-backed oriole</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Bullock's oriole</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yellow-winged cacique</span></em><br />
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<div></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHdLDaH0DSmrdfBRlfoHQysC0zujIvjuS1JA6JlbW7G1LmRNHwBkcztU5PSZwZXPAD34PXsQ6HkTFYCK-ndvn4uCKEkvjDKvy6nvvcvFBHcNqRf4CTfF9K19ZRuMmXyjvweTJcccyF4w/s320/IMG_1787.JPG" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Lunch stop with Dwarf vireo nearby</div>Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-3053016369116922662011-08-13T23:31:00.000-05:002011-08-13T23:31:53.967-05:00Broad-billed Hummingbird Nest<div><br />
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<div>By happenstance, I discovered a Broad-billed hummingbird nest in the yard. It did not take long for an egg, then a second egg, followed by one hatching, then the other. Before 3 weeks had passed, both birds fledged. Check out the following photos.......</div><br />
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<div>The nest:</div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335909721208057714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8roD56d1RmbRzEyEagytUHRfVD0AT3kR7ZpehjsIZGnJmxr4u6hdYZTNSpRx8mDgnP-1kALVuwfD5PeQSk69XkcNbTcNqxbpjG-XpwkFxCzRbraEakdAN0w_06mEUnsp_NupHShuyQ6I/s400/IMGP5607.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
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<div>One day after hatching:<br />
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<div><div><div><div><div>A week later:<br />
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<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsRE5Jrca6nxiC0S1oJ47HocS1aRkA7CBZWHPajoEUN-XKsMzuPClBgD5M2zbqq0r4gluXnstOC2UPyRm04KAtrYVOAceyzkKWgxZOfJbVSqeOgS5Z2BarsM__aHfCbYAAhJJd5i1-14/s1600-h/hummer+nest_1.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335904302938921458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsRE5Jrca6nxiC0S1oJ47HocS1aRkA7CBZWHPajoEUN-XKsMzuPClBgD5M2zbqq0r4gluXnstOC2UPyRm04KAtrYVOAceyzkKWgxZOfJbVSqeOgS5Z2BarsM__aHfCbYAAhJJd5i1-14/s400/hummer+nest_1.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 225px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> A few days later:<br />
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The first born was always larger and the first to fledge:<br />
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I was nearby when the first bird fledged. The second bird fledged the next day:<br />
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Last week, Hugo and I took some birders from Canada to the Santa Juana area. Soon after getting good looks at a stunning male Mountain trogon, we heard and then spotted a Northern pygmy-owl. As we each peered into the spotting scope to get close up looks at the owl, one of the visitors noticed another bird a little above the owl. Imagine my shock when I trained my binocs on this other bird - a male Hooded grosbeak! It's a species I've been waiting to see. <br />
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<div align="left">Wait, wait, it gets better.....the female was nearby, affording all of us perfect views of both. </div><br />
<div align="left">After congratulating one another, I turned toward the car and spotted a bird scratching at the edge of the dirt road - a Green-striped brushfinch. I've only seen this species once before and that was several years ago. Unfortunately, the bird didn't stay in the open long, and we had to work the brush awhile before everyone got good looks at this secretive bird. A lifer for the others on the trip. </div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo from Wikimedia Commons - Dominic Sherony, photographer</span></div><br />
<div align="left">It was a good day, and now I'll have to revise my life list. </div>Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-51842200312492818482011-08-13T23:27:00.000-05:002011-08-13T23:27:11.847-05:00Another Hummer Nest<br />
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<div><div><div><div><div>It's been difficult to work in my yard this spring. </div><div>A Broad-billed hummer laid two eggs and fledged two young from a nest over one of my raised beds. <br />
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Another is on the opposite side of my house and is on eggs. Luckily I can watch the action with my spotting scope from the living room. </div><div>Can you find the nest in the following photo?</div><br />
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</div>Eleven of us headed to an area by Zarzamora (above Erongaricuaro) to a place we call Columpio. The outing was billed as a bi-lingual hike/walk/bird trip so there was a mix of interest among us. One interest we hadn't considered until we got there: hongos or mushrooms. It's that time of year. <br />
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Here's what we saw/heard (not in taxonomic order):<br />
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Painted redstart<br />
White-breasted nuthatch<br />
Hepatic tanager<br />
Crescent-chested warbler<br />
Ruby-crowned kinglet<br />
Mexican jay<br />
Yellow-eyed junco<br />
Pine flycatcher<br />
Acorn woodpecker<br />
Hairy woodpecker<br />
Bewick's wren<br />
American robin<br />
Red warbler<br />
Barn swallow<br />
Gray silky-flycatcher<br />
Brown-backed solitaire<br />
White-tipped dove<br />
Hybrid towhee (spotted x collared)<br />
Brown creeper<br />
Blue-throated hummingbird<br />
Olive warbler<br />
Mexican chickadee<br />
Northern raven<br />
Rufous-capped warbler<br />
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At Columpio, they added a number of new birds to their life and Mexico lists. The most interesting bird of the day was one that we couldn't immediately identify. Thanks to several individuals on the Mexico-birding yahoogroup, we've concluded that it's a juvenile Mountain trogon. I must admit that I wished it to be an Eared quetzal.....<br />
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It's an endemic to central Mexico; however, it has been a secret to me. It wasn't very shy and stayed at the feeder long enough for me to run back into the house for the camera and take several shots. <br />
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Number 393 for my Mexico list and 111 for my yard list. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>Female woodstars (photos by Vince Gravel)</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Male in flight (photo by Vince Gravel)</span></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Hugo caught it out of the corner of his eye today, so he added it to his list as well. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Many thanks to Vince Garvel and Alex Gordon for use of the photos. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Check out Vince's blog: <a href="http://www.birdsofmexico.blogspot.com/">http://www.birdsofmexico.blogspot.com/</a>. At the bottom, there's a place to click for the rest of his collection of amazing photos. </div>Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-40132802553710071442011-06-23T11:45:00.001-05:002011-06-23T11:47:46.130-05:00May 2011 Birding Trip Report<div>Note: I'll add photos to this entry soon. Until then, here's a recent trip report. <br />
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Oh, and in case you've been wondering about my not posting many entries this past year: No, I've not moved on to another pastime - I still live to bird. It's simply a matter of other pressing matters taking up my time this past year - divorce, my mother's failing health, more work to finish my house, visiting friends, etc. </div><br />
Last month, Hugo guided a visiting birder - George M. from Ontario. I was invited to tag along for the last day and a half. Both Hugo and George got lifers. Although not a lifer, I got a great look at a bird on my BVD list - that stands for Better View Desired bird. Fan-tailed warbler, seen at Arroyo Frio near Pedernales. <br />
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<div>We dipped on swifts at the waterfalls south of Uruapan so we headed to Tacambaro, always a treasure trove of birds. </div><br />
<div>Some changes at Rio Corucha: they've bulldozed a wider road higher up the mountainside. It looks like they're building an alberca (pool) up there or so we were told by some of the blackberry farmers. The trickle of water that used to make its way down the dirt road on the other side of the river is no more. Thus, no butterflies. :-(<br />
</div><div>The area still produced Banded quail, Black-chested sparrow, Lesser roadrunner, and Golden-crowned emerald. No West Mexican chachalacas - it's been more than a year since we've spotted them in the area.<br />
</div><div>And no, we didn't spot the mystery raptor, which both Hugo and I say is a Solitary eagle. One day we'll see it again and have a good camera to record the sighting. </div><br />
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<div><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Birds seen/heard (150 species):</span></strong><br />
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</div><div><span style="color: #990000;"><em>Great egret</em></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"><em>Snowy egret</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Cattle egret</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-faced ibis</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Mallard</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Lesser scaup</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black vulture</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Turkey vulture</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Sharp-shinned hawk</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Red-tailed hawk</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Banded quail</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Common moorhen</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Northern jacana</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black-necked stilt</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Killdeer</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Greater yellowlegs</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Spotted sandpiper</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Least sandpiper</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rock pigeon</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Mourning dove</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Inca dove</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-tipped dove</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Squirrel cuckoo</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Groove-billed ani</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Lesser roadrunner</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Northern pygmy-owl</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Ferruginous pygmy-owl</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-naped swift</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-throated swift</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Golden-crowned emerald</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Broad-billed hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-eared hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Violet-crowned hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Berylline hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Blue-throated hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Magnificent hummingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Plain-capped starthroat</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Mountain trogon</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Elegant trogon</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Belted kingfisher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Green kingfisher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Russet-crowned motmot</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Acorn woodpecker</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Golden-cheeked woodpecker</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Yellow-bellied sapsucker</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Ladder-backed woodpecker</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Hairy woodpecker</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Northern flicker</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-striped woodcreeper</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Greenish elaenia</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Pileated flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Tufted flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Olive-sided flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Greater pewee</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Pine flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Cordilleran flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Buff-breasted flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black phoebe</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Vermilion flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Dusky-capped flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Ash-throated flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Nutting's flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Great-crested flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Brown-crested flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Great kiskadee</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Social flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Sulphur-bellied flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Cassin's kingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Thick-billed kingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rose-throated becard</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Northern rough-winged swallow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Barn swallow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Gray silky-flycatcher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Gray-barred wren</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Spotted wren</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Canyon wren</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Happy wren</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Bewick's wren</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Marsh wren</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Curve-billed thrasher</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Blue mockingbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Easter bluebird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Orange-billed nightingale-thrush</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Russet nightingale-thrush</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Hermit thrush</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-throated thrush</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rufous-backed robin</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>American robin</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Bushtit</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Mexican chickadee</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Bridled titmouse</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-breasted nuthatch</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Brown creeper</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Steller's jay</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Mexican jay</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Common raven</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>House sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Plumbeous vireo</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Hutton's vireo</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Warbling vireo</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Golden vireo</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Chestnut-sided shrike-vireo</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>House finch</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Lesser goldfinch</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Olive warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Orange-crowned warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Nashville warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Crescent-chested warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Yellow warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Yellow-rumped warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black-throated gray warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Townsend's warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Common yellowthroat</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black-polled yellowthroat</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Gray-crowned yellowthroat</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Wilson's warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Red warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Painted redstart</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Slate-throated redstart</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Fan-tailed warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rufous-capped warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Golden-browed warbler</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Hepatic tanager</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Summer tanager</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Western tanager</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Elegant euphonia</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Blue-black grassquit</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>White-collared seedeater</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rufous-capped brush-finch</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Green-striped brush-finch</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rusty-crowned ground-sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Hybrid towhee (Collared x Rufous-sided)</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Canyon towhee</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black-chested sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Stripe-headed sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Rusty sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Chipping sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Song sparrow</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Yellow-eyed junco</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black-headed grosbeak</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Blue grosbeak</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Red-winged blackbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Western meadolark</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Great-tailed grackle</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Bronzed cowbird</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Streak-backed oriole</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Black-vented oriole</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Scott's oriole</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><em>Yellow-winged cacique</em></span>Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-34664925246739107272011-06-07T20:59:00.008-05:002011-06-07T21:35:02.130-05:00New Nesting Boxes<div align="left">On a recent trip to/from the States, I picked up two pre-made nesting boxes - on sale no less. </div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left">They were rather plain so I asked my neighbor Francis if she'd beautify them with some of her artwork. She and husband Roldofo Rodriguez make much sought after art - large and small chests, shadow boxes, crosses, benches, and hummingbird earrings are just some of the articles they make. </div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left">Here are the finished boxes.......</div><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615666937145704098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMSyGgD9uFmIZJWQhKdQhCKwSUHjfVyMnv1D5qIGKLj3ZgXMimcvcnYBr5PAcOAOMgmv0tVK-ppU4cO4aPM489RCALzWoX4eAN04BlNJhIjocfwFWt2LBezyZN2q-krU65WGSK-N7jgjo/s400/IMG_1938.JPG" /></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Detail of the box in the side yard. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Note: the banner, birds and flower heads are raised from the box; the flower stems and leaves are painted onto the box.</span></em></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615666500475805458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdjb3H50ENftRXn4WeJRVlLzxeGU60eto9PuxhyphenhyphennhJcwDWvBl6GONCAMoOtic5Y2G9FfkJM4EmMc6FGXOlhSU1Qs8KEHFsPVJrqLjGE-q93xqABR_qIik7GfhXVvYGNll7hQxEgw3zok/s400/IMG_1939.JPG" /><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#990000;">It's installed in cozy corner where I can watch it from inside the house.<br /></span></em><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbQdnoZ0rTC2eXLSSO8wMWLgrnZP4eKLsUUc5x8ZYTffzaL7DHwlCgwR7k186IPo7bvt6xkVM7h4QNMVNqfhlDyLqHbwF1n5I5ebGEcjazr8HcgvA5akAONgwYywGAbyhsmdgW31_oQw/s1600/IMG_1941.JPG"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpexOhrp-ilmJZ8rGjFSls-HAIDz6PSZw0wTY-fu66H_TtJtzRUG2sS2gz8NZoQNTEr-sCAYDR1HCjXaW8CmLPJGKKtEXgOA1TAwOsdED1MIwipUHFYZawnOKhTwloORKuV4ck0p7d8V8/s1600/IMG_1941.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615665574674328034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpexOhrp-ilmJZ8rGjFSls-HAIDz6PSZw0wTY-fu66H_TtJtzRUG2sS2gz8NZoQNTEr-sCAYDR1HCjXaW8CmLPJGKKtEXgOA1TAwOsdED1MIwipUHFYZawnOKhTwloORKuV4ck0p7d8V8/s400/IMG_1941.JPG" /></a> <em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">This one is in the front yard.<br /></span></em><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGOxg7kjpu_MiHgjnSw4Y4302Vj2g6NcVopbUepp-4khJoeB5IvtBSWcyptGkSiMT9VM-0uOkM8S-8NHlUbbB4AsdiAeKyGpdUhFXr0TnUoim16QRCfPuktzNVYRm5mkBsSayZ9YcPGk/s1600/IMG_1940.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615665329090555634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGOxg7kjpu_MiHgjnSw4Y4302Vj2g6NcVopbUepp-4khJoeB5IvtBSWcyptGkSiMT9VM-0uOkM8S-8NHlUbbB4AsdiAeKyGpdUhFXr0TnUoim16QRCfPuktzNVYRm5mkBsSayZ9YcPGk/s400/IMG_1940.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#990000;"><em>A wren - I am hoping for a Spotted wren - moved in within a couple hours of installation!<br /></em></span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSeitwKiSX8sDrz1Pl9sZimCTBKBfseS-8D91d3f_lgpkarnyj9z7TWq7VKNTeUOoYXfj3yKBq27gYrzmLmQh2_RCgRgADZEmYBaMk1ChEYn5nHt31lh5JbEPHiVu9mg14m1dGzK1jf0/s1600/IMG_1949.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615663046306218786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSeitwKiSX8sDrz1Pl9sZimCTBKBfseS-8D91d3f_lgpkarnyj9z7TWq7VKNTeUOoYXfj3yKBq27gYrzmLmQh2_RCgRgADZEmYBaMk1ChEYn5nHt31lh5JbEPHiVu9mg14m1dGzK1jf0/s400/IMG_1949.JPG" /></a> <em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Of course, there's always a pair of birds who want a different home. Canyon wrens recently fledged a brood from the space under the umbrella of this patio heater.<br /></span></em><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458784322987767957.post-20652725464216915922011-05-15T16:23:00.007-05:002011-05-15T17:08:00.652-05:00Orange-billed nightingale-thrush x 3I had three events involving Orange-billed nightingale-thrushes in short order yesterday. <br /><div><br /><div></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607061287685740002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvCvSb0Q3IPjopQ8-O-8q6Up515JbHOPak1z971Fu_ZW8HFFN9796wfl0nTvXbjMU39K7zfQzM1lVRcjnQ9CHekPldZi3a8gzOapdzpcnjLtdW4c-zarEOs6sGGiy0Ewnh2J8_Q2nkBlQ/s400/IMG_1879.JPG" /> <br /><div></div><br /><div>The first was on the cover of ABA's North American Birds quarterly journal, vol 64: no 4, 2011, that arrived in my monthly mail packet from Seattle. No, I didn't go to South Dakota last year to add this species to my ABA list. I've got them in my yard here on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro.</div><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607059915608123426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrVZdJDG_cHcfjRxw5W7TLK83nzAUIcTS6SoUbTWT1ePItmidNYZR3Cobl4UtoYuKJRfZkSNJAYHYyAIRtEFCBsySSzIb7gL698tVHMkgCuCh0Fx-s24yVSX3HtwQPrYL-QJAH1eHsYY/s400/IMG_1867.JPG" /> <br /><div></div><br /><div>The next happening was a flutter of excitement out my kitchen window. I'm not sure what was going on. Two birds flew onto my window ledge and were flapping at each other, while making all sorts of racket. I thought they were fighting. One was an adult Orange-billed, the other was a juvenile. See photo above. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The adult flew away to a nearby tree, then flew off into my neighbor's garden. The juvenile sat on my window sill for some time, allowing me to get this photo before it, too, flew off. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The third is a norm at this time of year: Orange-billed nightingale-thrushes in my yard sing constantly. They start at the crack of dawn and don't stop until dark. And I mean they sing throughout the day. Mind you, they are not easy to see - they tend to sit still and you have to be lucky to catch some movement to locate them. Yet, once heard, you will not forget their song. <br />Check out <a href="http://www.xeno-canto.org/">www.xeno-canto.org</a> for recordings of this species. <br /></div></div>Georgia Contihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565814231447830712noreply@blogger.com2