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| 05::33 Red-necked Grebe adult swimming at Lake Osakis Minnesota |
| 05::50 Red-necked Grebe pair courting while swimming at Lake Osakis Minnesota |
| 06::04 Red-necked Grebe adult diving at Lake Osakis Minnesota |
| 06::05 Red-necked Grebe pair calling before diving at Lake Osakis Minnesota |
| 06::06 Red-necked Grebe adult swallowing fish at Lake Osakis Minnesota |
| 07::32 Yellow-throated Warbler male eating a worm while singing in an Illinois sycamore |
| 07::34 Yellow-throated Warbler male defecating, scratching, singing in an Illinois sycamore |
| 10s22 Muscovy Duck flocks flying past Salineno Texas along the Rio Grande |
| 07::45 Black-backed Woodpecker male drumming a tree in Minnesota |
| 09s38 Black Tern immature flying over Mitchell Lake marsh in Texas |
| 10s38 Black-capped Chickadee feeding in a tamarack tree in Minnesota |
| 12s26 White-winged Scoter females flying over Lake Michigan ice in Indiana |
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| Rare Pair seen 35 miles SW of Corpus Christi, Texas, at least 1000 feet offshore |
| Try this Google mapping exercise to learn about a northern cloud forest in Mexico |
| San Antonio Christmas Bird Count Circle (as of 2008) |
| Identifying an Eastern Chipmunk is easy, |
| but a fledgling Eastern Phoebe isn't |
I was filming the phoebe when the chipmunk walked into the view. |
| Another hawk, again not a Zone-tailed, but instead a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk... |
| an immature at Mitchell Lake, San Antonio, TX | ID'd from video shot a few hours after the observation (morning of 29 November 2008) |
| not a Zone-tailed Hawk, not a Red-tail, and not even a Harlan's Red-tail... |
| Instead, it was an immature White-tailed Hawk at Mitchell Lake, San Antonio, TX | ID'd by MMS from video shot 3 days earlier (3 May 2008) during the Audubon Sanctuary's Bird-a-thon! |
| The 4th really southern flycatcher reported for Texas in 3 months |
| Piratic Flycatcher at a Pollywog Pond mulberry tree (near Corpus Christi) | Discovered on 3 May 2008 by Gene Blacklock just in time for Sunday crowds |
| First a female (27 April 2008), followed by a male a week later (2 May) |
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| Watch the phalaropes try to distract him. |
| Long-distant migrant, on its way back from Argentina or adjacent countries |
| Swainson's Hawk hovering above a tractor | Not shown - the tractor and the other hawks migrating as a group |
| In the same tree at WarblerWoods where a female was videotaped last May |
| Cerulean Warbler - a male! Scroll down 15 paragraphs for video of that female | A very slow Shutter speed (used in very shady conditions) still stopped his wings and tail. |
| A species much easier to find in Europe |
| a Ruff wanders to central Texas | Notice her ruffled feathers - blowing in the wind! |
| Snowbird, where'd you park your RV? |
| low-light but High-definition clips of a male Allen's Hummingbird | He spent the 2007-08 Winter at Bentsen - Rio Grande State Park |
| Rare bird visits The Nature Conservancy Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve (Texas) |
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a Fork-tailed Flycatcher in High-definition and Regular Video --AND 20 still frames from the video clips |
Discovered by Chris Butler and Max Pons on 16 March 2008 on this south Texas preserve 200+ observers saw this bird by the time it departed on 30 March, 2 weeks later Max Pons, Brad McKinney, Mary Gustafson, David Bend, George Colley assisted birders. |
| Sandia Crest, New Mexico, Elevation 10,678 feet, Temperature 10°F, Wind Chill -39°F |
| Rosy-Finches around the Crest House Gift Shop and Restaurant on 8 January 2008 | one HDV 1080p clip slowed to 1/10 speed - all others resized to 640 x 480p (DV resolution) |
| From the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas |
| Whooping Crane frames from High-definition video | extracted from 1080p footage shot from a boat |
| Seven Texas Christmas Bird Count Birds |
| Prairie Warbler, Merlin, 3 sparrows, and 2 icterids | Hear the Western Meadowlark and Savannah Sparrows call |
| Some rare and uncommon swimmers for central Texas |
| Black Scoter, Common Goldeneye, Horned Grebe, and an odd Eared Grebe | Lake Pflugerville sketched onto a Google Earth image of NE Austin |
| Some Fall migrants in San Antonio, all starting with "S" |
| Summer Tanager and Sanderling and Say's Phoebe | Lone birds en route to their wintering grounds. |
| Local birders discover two more rarities in Texas |
| Gray Kingbird & Masked Duck taped 11 November 2007 northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas |
This long-billed kingbird species normally occurs in the West Indies and Central and South America. This species of duck is tropical, too, occurring in Texas primarily during wet years. |
| Knocked out of the sky by Tropical Storm Erin? |
| Long-tailed Jaeger taped 18 August 2007 near San Antonio, Texas |
Interrupted (perhaps) on its flight from the Arctic to high seas off of South America? Discovered by Martin Reid on 17 August 2007 at Braunig Lake in Bexar County, Texas |
| Taped at Mahncke Park, San Antonio, Texas on 29 July 2007 |
| FLEDGLING and PARENT Couch's Kingbird | Note the 2-part call of the fledgling - the 2nd part sounds like a common call of the adult |
| Although many birds are declining, southern species now nest in Ogle County! |
| 44 VIDEOS OF BREEDING BIRDS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS | Including several deep-forest species at the 2291-acre Lowden-Miller State Forest |
| Some specialty birds from South Texas |
| MASKED DUCK, TAMAULIPAS CROW, GREEN PARAKEET, | BOTTERI'S SPARROW, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, ETC | 3 New clips of Masked Duck pair added (F found 5-11 by Perrigo, M found 5-12 by Swan) |
| Rarity for the 2007 America's Birdiest Inland Large City Competition... |
| SWAINSON'S WARBLER - RARE BIRD IN CENTRAL TEXAS | Discovered by Sheridan Coffey, with Martin Reid |
| Susan and Don Schaezler's Web site and |
| 32 VIDEOS FROM THEIR WARBLER WOODS | A woodland oasis northeast of San Antonio |
| The Nature Conservancy of Nebraska presents: |
| SANDHILL CRANES ALONG THE PLATTE RIVER | Dancing the Night Away |
| Some March birds from Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains |
| SPECIALTY LANDBIRDS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA | But if you want hummingbirds, go to the next link |
| 66 samples of Iridescence |
| HUMMINGBIRDS IN SLOW MOTION | 27 species from California, Texas, Louisiana, México, and Guatemala |
| Birds showing various degrees of head molt |
| FEBRUARY FORSTER'S TERNS | Note the dark carpal bar on some |
| Frames from the Louisiana 2001 Big Year |
| 2001 BATTLE FOR THE BIRDS | Charlie Lyon vs. Malcolm Mark Swan |
| Videos of a different style |
| IN-YOUR-FACE WARBLERS BY PAUL CONOVER | Full frames using your browser's Flash plug-in |
| Striking plumage in a young hawk |
| THREE CLIPS OF A SINGLE HARRIS'S HAWK | Full frames using Flash |
| McCown's Longspur, Sprague's Pipit, and Mountain Plover: |
| PRAIRIE BIRDS VISIT SAN ANTONIO | Full frames using Flash |
| Mitchell Lake Audubon Sanctuary: |
| LANDBIRDS IN 2006 | Full frames using Flash |
| Other clips from Bexar County, Texas, during 2006: | |||||
| 70 Jan clips --- | 39 more Jan --- | 42 Feb clips --- | 35 more Feb --- | 60 March --- | 37 Oct Nov |
50 Species from Austria (central Europe)
28 Texas rarities
from all parts of the state since March 2002
54 species from Oaxaca, México
31 species from Veracruz, México
4 species from Mitchell Lake Audubon Sanctuary, Texas
Video Photography Technical Tips and 22 species of woodpeckers
Pileated Woodpecker in flight
Dragonflies 4 so far
Leps from Veracruz, México 7 to date
Some Methods for Processing Video Clips incomplete for Windows and Linux