birds

[Tad Eareckson]

Is it one of these?:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Nyctibius_griseus_471885191_27f931630d_o_Crop.jpg

[Steve Davy]

That is a wonderful photo, Tad. What a privilege it is for us to live on this planet with such creatures.

P.S. There are no Birds in the photos I just posted.

[Steve Davy]

I don't know if the little high-strung bastards are getting accustomed to me or if I just got lucky, but I did manage to get close enough to get this decent photo today:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2943/15256262829_2d668940b6_o.jpg

[Tad Eareckson]

Nice shot - 'specially considering you weren't cheating with sugar water. Still can't identify any of your hummers - beyond taking guesses based on range maps. I'm not much good unless it's an adult male with the throat visible in good direct sunlight.

I've gotten four species - Ruby-Throat, Black-Chin, Calliope, Rufous - to park on my hands, baiting them in with aforementioned sugar water. Rubies were here, others in northern Idaho at my sister's. There I was also able to score four parked birds at once. The main difficulty is that they're a hundred times more afraid of each other - with damn good reason - than they are of the slow, stupid, ungainly human with the feeder.

Got the idea - at my sister's - when I was bringing the feeder in for a refill and a swarm started following me into the house.

I don't get much hummer action at home until maybe late July. Turns into a feeding frenzy by late August and continues until sometime in the first week of September. Then a switch is thrown and they're all suddenly gone. After that a migrant every now and then, maybe into October. Saw my last one on the Twenty-First, took the feeder in a few day afterwards.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3843/15189417448_315272d31c_o.jpg


I think your bird's an Allen's.

[Steve Davy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen's_hummingbird

The male Allen's has a green back and forehead, with rust-colored rufous flanks, rump, and tail. The male's throat is also an iridescent orange-red.

I've seen the spectacular iridescent orange throat on some of them, but I haven't been able to get a good photo.

[Tad Eareckson]

If you wanna make things a lot easier...

http://www.aspectsinc.com/
Aspects, Inc.


Those are WONDERFUL feeders. Three parts, super easy to clean and refill. The upside-down bottle jobs should be outlawed. I have two so's I can pop the fresh one in as I'm pulling the near empty and nobody's gotta wait.

Get 'em hooked and you can have them landing on your hands while you're holding the feeder in no time.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/1755898-155/schanze-misdemeanor-court-bird-dell-former
'Super Dell' charged with harassing owl with paraglider | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tom Harvey - The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published 2014/10/28 18:12 - Last Updated 2014/10/29 10:13

Dell Schanze, 45, of American Fork, was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Utah with violating the Airborne Hunting Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He allegedly used a motorized paraglider to chase and harass a barn owl in February or March of 2011.

- Good.

- Damn. Somebody with credentials identified it as a Short-Eared and I didn't check.


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http://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2918/13924437348_c655feff59_o.png

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ozPINnchH9s/UelZuNoQBRI/AAAAAAAAqjo/YWTSzTu6srU/s1600/DL8D8506.jpg

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It's not a Short-Eared.

Hope they have time to do Sam now.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=32112
Yet another PPG harrassing wildlife

Paul Hurless - 2014/11/28 19:07:24 UTC

It's a good thing nobody harasses animals with hang gliders like those evil paraglider pilots do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPcVWh9hccE

Paul Hurless - 2014/11/28 19:47:22 UTC

Did you even notice the name of the person who posted that video? It seems to be a well-known HG pilot.

michael170 - 2014/11/28 20:02:42 UTC

Kevin Christopherson - 38341 - Membership Exp Date: 2013/02/28

I hope that the next time he decides to chase Elk he crashes and breaks his f***ing neck!

I was gonna say, "Please God, help this motherfucker to clip a powerline as soon as possible." No need to wait until the next time he decides to chase Elk.

I only knew this asshole from what was in the magazine decades ago. But even then and with just that much I was pretty sure I didn't like him.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=32112
Yet another PPG harrassing wildlife

Dustin George - 2014/12/01 00:36:21 UTC
Front Royal, Virginia

LoL *yawn* I hope you never harass spiders, cockroaches, or terminates that infest or enter your house either. Also, better not walk over grass, because their is a high possibility or inability of killing an ant or some bug of some sort. Even worse driving your car, have you ever seen your windshield after an evening drive?

Spoken like a true product of Steve Exceptionally-Knowledgeable Wendt - asshole.

Tormod Helgesen - 2014/12/01 05:50:33 UTC

Humor is a difficult thing...

Impossible for stupid people.

...there's a thin line between being funny and trolling.

No. It's a mile wide.

This seems to me to be trolling, am I wrong?

Yes. This semiliterate piece o' shit is expressing his honest heartfelt take on the issue.

michael170 - 2014/12/01 06:11:19 UTC

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?p=333415#333415

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=29919
wtf

Bateleur - 2013/09/14 02:11:0 UTC
Africa

The tragedy is that humans could have been almost god like stewards of this, our one and only spaceship, Earth. Earth was pretty durable and could have supported us and all the other Earthlings for many millennia. Instead, we are trashing its life support systems (oceans, atmosphere, rain forests, etc.). The disparity between what humans could have been and what we in fact are, is immensely tragic. I adore human knowledge and people who live up to their full potential but have little to no respect or use for those who merely exist and fail to think - deep thoughts are very rewarding.

Majority of people have no regard for other life forms, they live as if their right to comfort and support for their cocked up ideas of happiness takes precedence over all else. How stupid are we?! We have become parasites about to destroy our host!

http://www.kitestrings.org/post5068.html#p5068

2014/12/01 06:05:23 UTC - 3 thumbs up - michael170