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Congrats @Left, @The Flash, @Elenion, and @StrikerEZ on your successes with AP tests!!

I have another small batch of hummingbird photos to share :D

Rufous Hummingbirds (2 photos):

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Male:

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Female:

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Broad-tailed Hummingbirds (3 photos):

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All males:

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Zoom zoom!

Black-chinned Hummingbird (1 photo):

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Male. This was the only shot I got where you can actually see the purple on his throat.

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Female hummer that I'm not 100% sure what species she is:

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Look, you can see her little tongue just barely poking out the end of her beak!

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I think she's a Broad-tailed Hummingbird, but she could be a Black-chinned either, since the females of those two species look very similar.

 

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Tomorrow, I wake up early to drive to Quincy, Massachusetts for Readercon fun! Got clothes packed, cat set to be taken care of and toll money because I haaaate driving through Pennsylvania. I'm going to minimize time there and drive through New York State. 

And avoid crazy Connecticut drivers.

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1 hour ago, Orlion On a Cob said:

Tomorrow, I wake up early to drive to Quincy, Massachusetts for Readercon fun! Got clothes packed, cat set to be taken care of and toll money because I haaaate driving through Pennsylvania. I'm going to minimize time there and drive through New York State. 

And avoid crazy Connecticut drivers.

Another CT native?

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On 7 July 2017 at 8:00 PM, Slowswift said:

I don't think I can recommend Spiderman: Homecoming enough. Honestly. Got to go see it after work yesterday, and it was one of the most enjoyable theater things I'd seen in quite a while.

I still haven't seen GotG 2......darn money.  Wanna though. 

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Birding field trip was very successful! Still working on sorting through my photos, but here are two nice ones of a White-crowned Sparrow who posed cooperatively:

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Update: I've now sorted through all my photos and will put the best ones up in a new post tomorrow. :)

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Ok, photos from Saturday!

Nesting Tree Swallows (2 photos):

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Papa swallow visiting the nest to feed hungry babies:

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Baby swallow peeking out of the nest-hole:

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Closeup of a cluster of teeny white flowers:

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Dusky Flycatcher:

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He's nothing spectacular to look at, but I had never seen one before, so I'm happy I saw him and got a clear, identifiable photo, even if it won't win any awards. :)

(Side note: Certain birds in the flycatcher family are notoriously difficult to identify, so getting a photo good enough for ID is a more significant accomplishment than you might think. XD)

Some type of small rodent, I think a ground squirrel:

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There were lots of these little guys scurrying around the parking lot of the first spot we stopped to look for birds.

Trout in the shallows of a lake:

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Cassin's Finch:

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This little guy sure was singing happily. I was very happy too because I'd never seen a Cassin's Finch before.

Milbert's Tortoiseshell butterfly (2 photos):

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It's unfortunate that this butterfly didn't pose for a photo with wings spread, because the top side of the wings was much prettier than the underside... Here's a photo from Google to demonstrate:

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Waterfall sparkling in the sunlight (2 photos):

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A wider view of the same waterfall:

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@AngelEy3 Thanks! There were more great birbs than I got photos of, but I can't get mad about it after having so much fun seeing and hearing them. I love that waterfall too. It's a popular hiking/tourist spot--I have another photo where you can see a bunch of people at the bottom.

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Gives you a better idea of how tall the waterfall is.

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4 minutes ago, AngelEy3 said:

@Sunbird If you don't mind my asking, where is that waterfall? 

We're trying to plan a road trip for next summer that I've been making notes of locations for, and I'm interested in possibly being able to see it in person. 

I don't mind at all! (I kinda threw caution to the wind when I posted the photos with my first and last name watermarked on them. :P) It's called Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon, Provo, Utah. There are lots of beautiful parks in Provo Canyon! My other photos from Saturday were taken in Wasatch National Forest, which is an hour or two's drive away from Bridal Veil, depending on how deep into the forest you venture.

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