Brian,
Thanks for the update on Neowise. Tonight I hope to find a place in Boise without interference from trees or city lights.
Dianne Stone. Boise Depot Bench
Re: Comet Neowise
yay for that 180 mm lens… =) beautiful shot Jordan !!!!!
yeah, I tried 8x and 10x bins, and both of our scopes, but liked the view best with my 8x bins
this reminds me of birding in Colombia April 2010……. really cool endemic species right in front of us, within 20-30 ft, but most of us kept turning around to watch a volcano that was sputtering, poofing, coughing, blasting smoke and debris into the sky…. and this was no IQ test, we just could not take our eyes off that “thing”
Re: Comet Neowise
Awesome shot Brian
MaDWhitham
Suis tes rêves aujourd’hui! Demain n’est pas une garantie
Re: Comet Neowise
I actually found that it looks best in binoculars, more contrast and you can take in the whole tail. This is what it looks like nearly uncropped with a 180mm lens, the tail is HUGE! Definitely worth checking out since it now so easy to see in the evening.
Re: Comet Neowise
Thanks Brian.
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Comet Neowise
If interested, don’t have to wake up in early AM hrs to see Comet Neowise now. It’s visible best after 10:30 PM, about 2 fists above the horizon, below the Big Dipper in the NW sky. The comet will rise a bit closer to the Dipper each night between now & 7/23. Visible with naked eye but looks really good though binoculars &, I’m sure, best with a telescope.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Re: Not A Bird
good looks this morning 0330 hrs, thx again Brian =)
almost better in 8x bins than 10x bins or even the scope, just needed to be out of trees and mountains as it was fairly low…….
Re: Bird ID help
I’m encouraged, Bill and Larry. As one just starting out in birding by way of recording birdsong soundscapes I’m impressed with the seemingly vast number of feathered friends one might become acquainted with. I’ve had the delight of meeting several in the group that appear to me to be unconscious competents at recognizing birds. It’s second nature to them. It’s reflexive. They still seem to love it, too. I’m open to being convinced, but I’m not convinced yet that I want to devote the endless effort required to becoming able to identify every last bird that crosses my path. I resonate to the proposition that there is joy in it at every level.
Kevin Merrell
Re: Bird ID help
hey Bill, easier birding works for us too………
what about gulls ? we’ve got to lump a bunch of gulls and their F1 crosses and F2 back-crosses before insanity strikes !!
and
the toppermost birders we’ve known over the last umpteen x 2 years have been repeatedly quoted…….” lump, lump, lump !!! “
while at St. Marks NWR in FL panhandle just S of Tallahassee a few months ago we got you a shirt featuring ” little brown jobs “
I hope we got your size right…….. haha
easier birding, more fun, less filling, tastes great !! hahahaha =) what’s football ?
LA
Re: Bird ID help
Ok, here comes a retiree easier birding email.
I’ve been birding and listing for about 50 years, both back east and out west for the last 35 years and was sent all over the country for work. I decided years ago that several types of birds should just be lumped, which spares me the effort to find difficult (at times esoteric) field marks to get a specific ID.
I now call all small streaky brown birds – “sparrows” all empids – flycatchers and especially all small shorebirds – shorebirds. All of them are on my life lists anyway and now I just enjoy watching them and leave the bird book on the windowsill or in my pocket when these pesky highly lumpable fellows get near me.
Bill Moore
Hoot Owl Rd
Inkom