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Moment-of-the-Day. Heard it all morning. Called for over an hour. Couldn't find it. I'm not a birder but this clearly brought the Colima Warbler survey to a halt. Mary Gustfson saw it on the way back. Greg told be this is the fifth Texan Record. And I got this crappy shot.
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A group of five of us: robberfly, maractwin, gcwarbler, Mary Gustafson, and greglasley, were participating in a Colima Warbler survey in Pine Canyon in Big Bend National Park. During our morning hike into the canyon we started hearing the distinctive paired notes of the call of a Northern (Mountain) Pygmy-Owl. We spent an hour or more trying to locate the owl, but it was well up on a rugged slope on the south side of the canyon, and we just could not see it. We were, however, certain of the ID and we were satisfied it was not some vocalization of a Rock Squirrel or anything else. The calls were recorded by gcwarbler, maractwin, and Mary with iPhones. We continued on with our survey and at about 1 PM we were walking out of the canyon and again heard the bird. We stood on the trail and searched the large pines across the canyon from our location, and Mary spotted the bird!!!, high in a Ponderosa Pine. I did not have a large telephoto with me as I was set up mainly for butterfly photography, but several of us obtained some shots from about 125 meters away. Image 1 is cropped so you can see the bird. Image 2 is not cropped and shows the view through my camera and lens (300 F/4 and 1.4X extender). Image 3 is highly cropped but makes the bird itself a little more visible, though badly pixelated. It was a long way off for photos, but in the cropped views you can see the long tail extending past the limb it was perched on. maractwin has another shot of this bird as well as a recording of the calls posted at: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1448140 robberfly also has an image of the bird at: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1448249 Several of us saw and photographed this same bird the following day and were able to show it to other birders. This will represent the 5th record of this species in Texas.
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A group of five of us: robberfly, maractwin, gcwarbler, Mary Gustafson, and greglasley, were participating in a Colima Warbler survey in Pine Canyon in Big Bend National Park. During our morning hike into the canyon we started hearing the distinctive paired notes of the call of a Northern (Mountain) Pygmy-Owl. We spent an hour or more trying to locate the owl, but it was well up on a rugged slope on the south side of the canyon, and we just could not see it. We were, however, certain of the ID and we were satisfied it was not some vocalization of a Rock Squirrel or anything else. The calls were recorded by gcwarbler, maractwin, and Mary with iPhones. We continued on with our survey and at about 1 PM we were walking out of the canyon and again heard the bird. We stood on the trail and searched the large pines across the canyon from our location, and Mary spotted the bird!!!, high in a Ponderosa Pine. I did not have a large telephoto with me as I was set up mainly for butterfly photography, but several of us obtained some shots from about 125 meters away. Image 1 is cropped so you can see the bird. Image 2 is not cropped and shows the view through my camera and lens (300 F/4 and 1.4X extender). Image 3 is highly cropped but makes the bird itself a little more visible, though badly pixelated. It was a long way off for photos, but in the cropped views you can see the long tail extending past the limb it was perched on. maractwin has another shot of this bird as well as a recording of the calls posted at: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1448140 robberfly also has an image of the bird at: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1448249 Several of us saw and photographed this same bird the following day and were able to show it to other birders. This will represent the 5th record of this species in Texas.
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A group of five of us: robberfly, maractwin, gcwarbler, Mary Gustafson, and greglasley, were participating in a Colima Warbler survey in Pine Canyon in Big Bend National Park. During our morning hike into the canyon we started hearing the distinctive paired notes of the call of a Northern (Mountain) Pygmy-Owl. We spent an hour or more trying to locate the owl, but it was well up on a rugged slope on the south side of the canyon, and we just could not see it. We were, however, certain of the ID and we were satisfied it was not some vocalization of a Rock Squirrel or anything else. The calls were recorded by gcwarbler, maractwin, and Mary with iPhones. We continued on with our survey and at about 1 PM we were walking out of the canyon and again heard the bird. We stood on the trail and searched the large pines across the canyon from our location, and Mary spotted the bird!!!, high in a Ponderosa Pine. I did not have a large telephoto with me as I was set up mainly for butterfly photography, but several of us obtained some shots from about 125 meters away. Image 1 is cropped so you can see the bird. Image 2 is not cropped and shows the view through my camera and lens (300 F/4 and 1.4X extender). Image 3 is highly cropped but makes the bird itself a little more visible, though badly pixelated. It was a long way off for photos, but in the cropped views you can see the long tail extending past the limb it was perched on. maractwin has another shot of this bird as well as a recording of the calls posted at: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1448140 robberfly also has an image of the bird at: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1448249 Several of us saw and photographed this same bird the following day and were able to show it to other birders. This will represent the 5th record of this species in Texas.
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This bird was quite tame, and stayed visible for a long while, enabling me to get some great pictures.
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This bird was quite tame, and stayed visible for a long while, enabling me to get some great pictures.
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A pygmy owl hunts in Fish Creek Park
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While leading a birding trip in the state of Washington we found a very cooperative Northern Pygmy Owl. I have about 20 slides of this bird. Two different shots of this bird are provided.
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While leading a birding trip in the state of Washington we found a very cooperative Northern Pygmy Owl. I have about 20 slides of this bird. Two different shots of this bird are provided.
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Found this youngster sitting on a rock and slowly worked my way closer to him states out of range but this location is by far the lowest elevation (4,000 ft) many of the Arizona specialty birds breed as well as the pygmy owl... very cool spot
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Northern Pygmy-Owl above Teotitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico 31 March 1993
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Northern Pygmy-Owl Boot Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas 12 August 1982 This is just an awful image, but all there is. This was the first ever photographed record of this species in Texas. There have been several others since that time, 30 years ago. This shot is cropped significantly from a very small image on a dark slide.
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Heard small birds chattering nearby before I saw this one.
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Heard small birds chattering nearby before I saw this one.