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400 X2 plus heavy crop.
Thanks Riley. I've bolstered the dam to enlarge the pond. I trenched an overflow to avoid flooding the lawn and used the excavated material. So, here's hoping for more pond shots come spring.
Jack
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Jack Douglas said:
Great pic!
I was amazed at the diversity of birds around...
We went to the Villas resort just south of Loerto (https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g150772-d1987334-Reviews-Villa_del_Palmar_Beach_Resort_Spa_at_The_Islands_of_Loreto-Loreto_Baja_California.html)
The hotel is all alone in a large bay on the Sea of Cortez. On the resort are your typical sparrows, but I also saw the orioles and hummingbirds (2 types). Outside the resort are trails up into very rugged desert mountains. Tons of small songbirds I can't identify and lots of colour. There are also hawks, kestrels, and turkey vultures and osprey circling around. Towards the beach is a scrubby sand dune habitat with more coloured birds (cardinals, scrub jays, flycatchers) and roadrunners. The beach itself had various gulls and terns, herons and egrets, and sandpipers. A boat ride will get you out to islands with cormorants and boobies and pelicans. So, in my opinion, very good for birding!
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Mountains on islands are great for species diversity. I had never thought about that until I took a bus tour on Maui to the Haleakala Crater last month, going from near sea level to 10,000 ft. The driver/guide talked about how a species of bird might come to the island and descendants would fill various niches at different elevations, meanwhile plants and insects are doing the same thing. He said that if Darwin had visited that mountain, he would have forgotten about Galapagos. Exaggeration or no, that still speaks to great diversity. He also said that with such diversity of species, there is more rapid loss of species. He also mentioned that where birds and insects were essentially without predators that flight was too much of a luxury to hang on to.
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Here are some photos from my recent trip to Sax Zim Bog. It's been a fairly decent year there so far. All images taken with 7D mkii and 500 f4, some with 1.4xiii and some without. It's nice being so close to owls that 500mm is full frame!
Jeremy
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clbayley, thanks for that. We're thinking about such a trip maybe next winter. Do you ever wonder about safety relative to packing expensive gear?
It's a treat to have this thread and oooh those owls - I'd sure love the opportunity. The Great Grey is amazing but so are the little guys.
Jack
It's a treat to have this thread and oooh those owls - I'd sure love the opportunity. The Great Grey is amazing but so are the little guys.
Jack
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