http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5226603/owl/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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You may act like it's a wild owl.. but some of us know... oh yes, we know......
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5338083/owl/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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Snyder's Great-horned Owl like thing from Hamilton:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5362475/owl/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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I know a natural photo when I see one:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/4960443/hawk/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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Bohemian's in Bracebridge:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5373731/bird/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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Anyone want to take a stab at the ID of this bird???
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5378675/bird/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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Hummingbird... but no location?
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5235439/bird/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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Anyone want to take a stab at this one?
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/3195211/hummingbird/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
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Bird that looks darn good for Vega Gull from Washington State:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shyalbatross/6717517591/in/pool-437129@N20/lightbox/
In my opinion (not that I've seen a "good" one) --- but they give a very strong resemblance to Thayer's Gull... Some similarities:
-- String of "pearls" like THGU and SBGU
--- darker mantle than our HEGU's (like some THGU)
--- bubble-gum pink legs (like THGU)
--- large tertial crescent (like THGU)
Not sure how you'd tell them apart from a "dark extreme" THGU -- or dare I say it, a THGUxHEGU hybrid... Here's a THGU I photographed a few years ago in ON:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5453997/owl/upload/0/1920?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
ReplyDeleteBoreal Owl in Timmins...
you gonna go for it Josh?!
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Cooper's hawk with a rat (from today):
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/620/5461913/2/caon0100/plpcities/1920/?ref=ugc_city_thumbs
Nice Blog and photography! I came across it when I looked at my stats on my flickr site and your blog was a source of several hits for my Vega Gull composite.
ReplyDeleteOne easy way to tell this bird apart from a dark Thayer's besides some structural differences in the head that can be hard to tell, is the amount of black in the primaries on the underside of the wing. I don't think I've seen a Thayer's Gull with this much black in the underside of the primary tips (and we get a lot of Thayer's around here), and never past the window on P10 aside from some dark that will show on the tip of P10.
Howell and Dunn's Gulls of the Americas illustrate this well in their photo compilations of adult Thayer's and adult Vega Gulls.
Thanks for the link and awesome shots!
Cheers,
Ryan
@Ryan Shaw:
ReplyDeleteHey Ryan, glad you like the blog/photos.
I guess I may have written it up a bit short, but I agree with your ID of the bird. I was just going off on a tangent about the superficial similarities to Thayer's Gull --- something that I would look for if I ever had a suspect Vega here in Ontario... We often have a wide range of Lesser BB and Great BB gull hybrids with Herring Gull that makes Vega ID extra complicated - yet shouldn't show that "thayer's-ish" look about them.
Great find!
Brandon
Brandon,
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, always a good read. Anyway, I have a picture to add to the group. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/1920/5568756/20/upload/0?ref=ugc_yourweather_search
A really sad looking yellow-throated warbler in Windsor on apparently Feb 1 2012.
Brendan