Re: [SBB] (out of area) bird ID help?

["mary keitelman" <[[email protected]]>]

ok! now I agree -- I think it's a scrunched great blue as well. tho 
initially went for black crowned night heron :o

thanks!

Mary


>From: Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>
>To: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>
>CC: "SBB (E-mail)" <[[email protected]]>
>Subject: Re: [SBB] (out of area) bird ID help?
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:51:29 -0700
>
>Chuq:
>Without more resolution in the image, it could be a very gray
>black-crowned night heron. I can't tell for sure if the eye is red.
>The legs are light-colored - hard to say if they're yellow. The front
>is a bit gray for a night heron - compare here:
>http://tinyurl.com/rfh92
>
>** But I think it's more likely a great blue heron scrunched down.
>I've seen 'em do that before:
>http://tinyurl.com/hfeny
>
>
>At 10:59 AM 5/16/2006, you wrote:
>
> >Just looking for a quick sanity check here. this is out of area, but
> >I'm going over my photos from my trip, and this is strange..
> >
> >http://chuqui.typepad.com/teal_sunglasses/IMG_3816Version2.jpg
> >
> >down on the seaward breakwater of Dana Point Harbor, I ran into a
> >fairly large flock of brown pelicans. I took some general shots of
> >the group. Looking at them, I ran into the bird on the right. my
> >first reaction is "escapee stork", but is that a great blue with the
> >feathering and it's neck pulled in? It certainly wasn't what I was
> >expecting to see....
> >
> >In other "what doesn't belong here" birds, when I birded the bait
> >barge at Dana Point, I ran into all of the normal suspects -- various
> >gulls, black crowned and great blue herons, a couple of egrets -- and
> >one male peacock in full display.
> >
> >go figure.
> >
> >(FWIW, I went and birded the newport beach back bay, dana point
> >harbor, oceanside marina, and a day and a half all over Morro Bay,
> >including spending some time watching one of the Peregrines that have
> >nested up on the rock... I'll write it up and post a link soon; if
> >you've never birded Morro Bay area, it really rocks)
> >
> >
> >--
> >Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
> >[[email protected]] -- http://chuqui.typepad.com/
>
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