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arkabutla lake - 2008-05-24
grand canyon trip report -- with condors! - 2008-05-22
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grand canyon bird list: may 13-14, 2008
2008-05-21 - 8:37 a.m.
all photos © 2008 by elaine radford
california condor "12" soaring in a blue sky over the south rim of the
grand canyon
Not a long list, but a happy one that includes a real, wild-hatched California Condor, the infamous "minus zero." My new life bird! A full trip report with photos will be coming soon, but probably not until after the Memorial Day weekend.
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Turkey Vulture
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California Condor
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Cooper's Hawk
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Red-tailed Hawk -- on roadside outside park
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Peregrine Falcon
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White-throated Swift
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Ash-throated Flycatcher -- catching and eating LARGE insect
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Violet-green Swallow
dark-eyed "red backed" junco singing exuberantly
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Western Bluebird
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American Robin
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Mountain Chickadee
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Steller's Jay -- stealing and eating egg from nest
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Western Scrub-Jay
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Clark's Nutcracker
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Common Raven
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Plumbeous Vireo
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Yellow-rumped Warbler -- "Audubon's," most spring plumaged, at least one winter
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Black-throated Gray Warbler
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Chipping Sparrow
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Dark-eyed Junco -- "Red-Backed" and "Grey-Headed" types
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Black-headed Grosbeak -- pair
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Brewer's Blackbird
western bluebird
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