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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: c. Mississippi
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I'm in se Arizona for the holidays. Today we spent time poking around the San Pedro River near Sierra Vista. Birding paradise! This phyrrhuloxia was posing for a picture in a mesquite.
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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It's been snowing a lot in the last week or so.... heavy snow. I took this photo out my garage door of a white cedar.
-- kchd> "I'm in se Arizona for the holidays." People don't realize it but... AZ is as pretty in the "winter" as it is in warmer months.... especially the desert. Really nice whateveritis bird. ![]()
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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![]() It is interesting to see wildlife from other areas of the country. Me dumb-- I was going to tell you that you should enter it into the POM contest, until I realized that is the thread I'm looking at now! Believe it or not, this isn't the first time I've done that.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Nice photo, Lib...that's the stuff I used to add to the fireplace mantel along with white pine, hemlock, and whatever other evergreen was around.
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Three days left to enter your December photos! Judging to begin around Monday unless I'm out looking for more Snowy Owls!
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Heron
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: c. Mississippi
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I'm getting this one in just under the wire. I have been away quite a bit over the holidays. Just got home tonight.
Got this shot on 27 Dec. while fishing Lake Roosevelt for a few days during the holidays (yes, we are hard core fishermen). This is a Clark's Grebe, a relatively uncommon bird, and exciting to see for this bird nerd. ![]() Quote:
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Heron
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: c. Mississippi
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ok, two more...
Here is a Coues Whitetail doe in the mesquite savannah in the foothills of the Huachica Mountains in se AZ. ![]() Here is a Cactus Wren, perched atop an organpipe cactus. Such an enormous wren! ![]() Love birding in the Sonoran desert!
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Wow! Talk about sneaking them in right under the wire.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Grub
Join Date: Oct 2013
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The jetty at Barnegat Light NJ is well known in this area for its Harlequin Ducks, and Scoters this time of year. Along with other sea ducks. My problem is that I'm so leery of walking on jettys now-a-days that I haven't seen a Harlequin duck for years. The jettys are wet, or in weather like this ice coated, slippery and uneven. I'm in my 70's wear bi-focals, and klutzy. The last time I was out on a Jetty I promised myself that if I got off it without damaging myself, I'd never climb one again.
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