Scissor Tailed Flycatcher
Jul 16, 2019 18:49:18 #
Jul 16, 2019 20:09:48 #
Very nice. I've been in Texas for about 3 months and saw these guys the first week . Been trying to get photos ever since. At least I now know it's possible.
Jul 16, 2019 20:27:36 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Excellent series of shots. Each is a stand out on its own!
Thank you very much Cwilson!
Jul 16, 2019 20:34:34 #
Retired CPO wrote:
Very nice. I've been in Texas for about 3 months and saw these guys the first week . Been trying to get photos ever since. At least I now know it's possible.
Thank you very much Chief! I have been after shots like this for several years and I live here!
Jul 16, 2019 22:55:55 #
oIn the mid ‘70s...maybe as late as ‘78...on the way to drop my 8-year old son off for school in Ames, Iowa, he shouted:”Dad...what bird is THAT?”. We were on a narrow secondary road, so it took a moment to stop and back up...and Jamie shouted: “ There...there it is in that tree!” Given that there were lots of trees about it took a few moments...but there...there it was!
A scizzor-tailed flycatcher....way out of its range.
And it was there the next morning...with a mate... and from the car we located it’s nest in a tree in the front yard of a house along the road. I notified an ornithologist friend at Iowa State University where I was on tha faculty that my son, James had spotted a pair of scizzor-tails and he scoffed...and then drove out to the site and confirmed the sighting as the northern-most record (at that time...Heaven knows where the northernmost record is today...what with climate change and all!) of a breeding pair of scizzor-tails!
Jamie, now 50, still delights in recounting that episode...as do I!
So thanks much for posting this series! I’m forwarding a link to my son!
Dave
A scizzor-tailed flycatcher....way out of its range.
And it was there the next morning...with a mate... and from the car we located it’s nest in a tree in the front yard of a house along the road. I notified an ornithologist friend at Iowa State University where I was on tha faculty that my son, James had spotted a pair of scizzor-tails and he scoffed...and then drove out to the site and confirmed the sighting as the northern-most record (at that time...Heaven knows where the northernmost record is today...what with climate change and all!) of a breeding pair of scizzor-tails!
Jamie, now 50, still delights in recounting that episode...as do I!
So thanks much for posting this series! I’m forwarding a link to my son!
Dave
Jul 17, 2019 05:32:23 #
BamaTexan wrote:
The first two were shot on 07/10/2019 and the rest were from 07/15/2019. It is amazing how rapidly they grow.
Jul 17, 2019 06:34:59 #
Uuglypher wrote:
oIn the mid ‘70s...maybe as late as ‘78...on the w... (show quote)
Thank you very much Dave!
Jul 17, 2019 06:35:56 #
Jul 17, 2019 07:23:08 #
BamaTexan wrote:
The first two were shot on 07/10/2019 and the rest were from 07/15/2019. It is amazing how rapidly they grow.
Wow! What a great series--thanks!
Jul 17, 2019 07:53:14 #
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Jul 17, 2019 08:44:22 #
those are great shots of the birds and their lifestyle. Nice set indeed.
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