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  1. #621
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    Jan 2010
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    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    LOL! That’s hilarious!

  2. #622
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    Sep 2007
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    Undisclosed

  3. #623
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    Feb 2007
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    Rougemont Nebulae
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Should’ve known you would have your finger on the pulse of gen Z antics!
    Don’t know about birdwatching but I spotted a MAC SE in that video. And you young pups thought it was just a figment of my imagination.

  4. #624
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Great Falls Va + Avalon NJ
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    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.

  5. #625
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    Jan 2010
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    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
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    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.
    Beautiful!

  6. #626
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    Nov 2009
    Location
    Richmond, VA
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
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    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.
    Very Cool!
    "That young man has an extra step on his ladder the rest of us just don't have."

  7. #627
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
    IMG_8993.jpg

    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.
    I am SO jealous!

  8. #628
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Chesapeake, VA.
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
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    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.
    Nice shot!
    "We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust

  9. #629
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    Sep 2007
    Location
    Undisclosed
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
    IMG_8993.jpg

    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.
    Beautiful!

  10. #630
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
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    Finally found the snowy owl who's been in the area the last week. No good flights shots and they are better in a natural setting but I was delighted to see her and get this.
    What equipment did you use?

    -jk

  11. #631
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Great Falls Va + Avalon NJ
    My camera is a Canon EOS Rebel SL1. It’s probably 10 years old but still doing good. The game changer for me was a Sigma 150-600 telephoto lens. Sigma offers similar quality to Canon but a lower price. Everything is in range with this lens and still crystal clear. I still take an incredible number of bad pictures but knowing that compensate by taking a stupid number of every shot knowing something should turn out good .

  12. #632
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by -jk View Post
    What equipment did you use?

    -jk
    I’m pretty sure it’s a real owl.

  13. #633
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    Reminds me of Mel Allen doing Yankee games when I was a kid, hawking White Owl cigars. Tasty, and good for you, too!

  14. #634
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    Richmond, VA
    Question -

    I'm back up to the place at Smith Mountain Lake. I left a feeder full of food here when I left after Thanksgiving. It's still almost full. My backyard birds seem to be gone. Not just from the feeder, but when I sit out on the porch I don't even see or hear them twittering around in the trees. I've now been up here for 4 days and haven't seen the first bird at the feeder. I saw a chickadee this morning before it got light but he was only around for a few seconds and never hit the feeder.

    Any thoughts as to why?

    I took down the feeder and made sure it wasn't clogged. Seems to be fine. The seed is the same seed I was using all summer and they seemed to like it. (just a general blend)

    I saw a hawk over Thanksgiving but he would always swing by on occasion and never seemed to bother anyone.

    Now for the second half of the question. I watched a beautiful Bald Eagle fishing my little section of water this morning for about 10 minutes. I've only seen one here once before and it just cruised by without stopping. The water is maybe 50 to 75 yards from the house. I wouldn't think that the eagle hanging around would literally chase all my small birds away, but...?

    Thoughts?
    "That young man has an extra step on his ladder the rest of us just don't have."

  15. #635
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by Nrrrrvous View Post
    Question -

    I'm back up to the place at Smith Mountain Lake. I left a feeder full of food here when I left after Thanksgiving. It's still almost full. My backyard birds seem to be gone. Not just from the feeder, but when I sit out on the porch I don't even see or hear them twittering around in the trees. I've now been up here for 4 days and haven't seen the first bird at the feeder. I saw a chickadee this morning before it got light but he was only around for a few seconds and never hit the feeder.

    Any thoughts as to why?

    I took down the feeder and made sure it wasn't clogged. Seems to be fine. The seed is the same seed I was using all summer and they seemed to like it. (just a general blend)

    I saw a hawk over Thanksgiving but he would always swing by on occasion and never seemed to bother anyone.

    Now for the second half of the question. I watched a beautiful Bald Eagle fishing my little section of water this morning for about 10 minutes. I've only seen one here once before and it just cruised by without stopping. The water is maybe 50 to 75 yards from the house. I wouldn't think that the eagle hanging around would literally chase all my small birds away, but...?

    Thoughts?

    Well, you would certainly have lost some activity due to the winter migration. I'm in PA and while we have some year-round residents (Cardinals, Blue Jays, Woodpeckers) we also have a changeover in winter to more dark-eye juncos and chickadees but less activity overall. If you've had a lot of rain in the area, the bird seed may also have become saturated and you just need to change it out with a dry mix --- and one targeted toward winter locals. We mostly stick to sunflower seed this time of year.

    If a feeder has been empty or bad for too long, birds will start avoiding it and you'll have to work to develop their memory preference again by providing a sustained period of good food and access. You're near water so that's not the problem.

    I'd probably try checking your feeder, cleaning it, and filling it with new food - black oil sunflower seeds - and see what happens.

  16. #636
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    just resumed feeding today, waiting for my first customer...

  17. #637
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    Apr 2010
    Location
    Great Falls Va + Avalon NJ
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    Got a sassy shot of this beautiful girl about a week ago. She has been pretty scarce since. I keep reading of others up and down the jersey coast. I hope she comes back or someone else decides to visit.

  18. #638
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    Apr 2010
    Location
    Great Falls Va + Avalon NJ

    Nature Shot

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    One more - I love seeing them in nature.

  19. #639
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    Jan 2010
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    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by Utley View Post
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    One more - I love seeing them in nature.
    These are great, thanks for sharing. Although I do have a minor quibble with calling any section of the Jersey Shore nature at this point…😂

  20. #640
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    Mar 2008
    Location
    raleigh
    I got the Yankee Flipper for mrs pie this christmas....hilarity ensued...
    "One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese

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