Yeah, I'm empty too.Quote:
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Yeah, I'm empty too.Quote:
Originally Posted by earplug
Chick.N did you shoot the Dumont/Clear Creek IDPA match today?
No. I had other commitments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Cooper?s hawk maybe? They are brown and white.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Those are more mixed coloration. I mean like in the white section, there is no brown, and vice versa. When I referenced a piebald elk, this is kind of what was in my head.
https://i1.wp.com/www.outdoorodditie...ck-10-08-3.jpg
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Originally Posted by Irving
I'm afraid there's not nearly enough detail in the description to hazard a guess beyond the suggestion that if it looked like a hawk it probably was. Location and habitat are also clues. Whitewalrus' Cooper's is a possible but their wings are more mottled or spotted with white, not mostly white. Some birds have leucistic plumage characteristics but that's variance well beyond the detail of your description.
I frequently get rare bird ID questions and a picture is worth a thousand words. It often requires lots of pics of various features from different angles for a positive ID because some pictures do lie. Even detailed descriptions by experienced birders can be wrong due to what they thought they saw but didn't really. You have to wade beyond subjectivity.
Today we saw a Loggerhead Shrike and the first migrant Rufous Hummingbird at our Palisade home. Gambel's Quail too, but they're here every day.
I figured it was a long shot. I'm familiar with many of the birds I see in my neighborhood, but this guy was big and weird looking. I wished he stuck around so I could get better pictures. Even if I had a camera in my hand it all happened too fast, but it does make me think of how worthless cell phone are for taking quick pictures on the fly.
Sorry Irving. A very good place to start is with Sibley's: https://www.amazon.com/Sibley-Guide-.../dp/030795790X
It was probably just a pigeon like this.
https://pixnio.com/free-images/fauna...ng-725x544.jpg
https://previews.123rf.com/images/ma...e-blue-sky.jpg
While we're talking about birds though, the first time I've ever seen a turkey vulture was last year in Texas. Now I feel like I see them all the time in the mountains here, and even up in Cheyenne (Curt Gowdy National Park). Have they always been up here and I've just never noticed before?
The pigeon is probably a good guess. And Turkey Vultures are common throughout CO from spring through fall. I see them everyday. That the thing about learning the birds you discover, you actually start seeing them. There are lots of realms of awareness. Like bird songs and calls. For most people it's just background noise. For me it's a Kestrel fledgling getting fed, a quail chick that's lost it's family group, or a Ruby-crowned Kinglet mobbing a predator. I don't have to see it, only listen and hear.
I wish I were more familiar with game birds. I might have heard a quail, but I doubt I've ever seen one. I hear about people hunting grouse while they're elk/deer hunting, but I don't think I've ever heard/seen one of those either.
I just recently found out that those large flocks of very large, and very loud (but high in altitude so they are barely audible) birds I see over my land up in Pawnee in the fall are probably Sandhill Cranes.
Once you start finding Dusky Grouse or White-tailed Ptarmigan, watch and listen to their clucks and grousing, the feet as they scratch, their wings as they fly. In the future you will recognize it beyond background noise. I'll typically find a half dozen to thirty or more grouse during elk season. I never hunt them during season as it's a distraction from my primary goal. I used to hunt grouse on pre-season conditioning hikes.
Oh yeah, definitely Sandhill Cranes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ybu...g&pbjreload=10
Steven Rinella often describes the call of a Dusky Grouse sounding like a farmer trying to start an old tractor. Pretty sure this would have caught my attention while hunting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLclp7rz2AM
Time to make the donuts.
Does anybody really like donuts?
Donuts kinda suck.
Good morning... :)
You, always with the naysay here.
Fine, no donuts.
WCTriumph's got it handled anyway.
The shit I just backspaced.
Fun day.
Time to finish the drive home.
Went to two gun stores and did not want anything I saw. Strange.
Guess that means the safe is getting too full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erni
Right, but that doesn't really stop me.Quote:
Originally Posted by whitewalrus
Got my summertime aryan brother haircut done today. My Ex used to say it, and my GF did today too.....you look like a white supremacist.
Feels good though.
Went up the hill the other night, had some fun.
Didn't lose too much, the entertainment value was an even exchange.
I'm staying in a shitty motel in Colorado Springs. I'm in a garden level room and trying to work with headphones on. I thought I heard something, so went to look out of the window and there was a lady standing there with a bunch of garbage bags. Scared the shit out of me. She saw me and made some motions like, "Oh shit, wrong window, sorry." Then not two minutes later I heard knocking again. I looked at the window again and she was like "Hey, is Carmen there? Is this room XXX?" I said "No Carmen here. This is that room, but I've rented it for the night. I'll be gone tomorrow."
She's lucky she didn't experience any brandishing. Don't tell anyone though, because this hotel/motel chain doesn't allow firearms on the property.
While we're talking about it, the worst thing by far about staying in cheap motels like this (among every other reason) is that half the rooms are occupied by people who live here full time. When I was walking in from the parking lot I noticed a parrot cage in one of the rooms. Nothing I love better while trying to get a decent nights sleep in an unfamiliar, and usually dirty and uncomfortable place, is whole families of kids running up and down the halls and people jamming out like the walls aren't paper thin, or smelling everyone's breakfast and cigarettes 100% of the time.
First world problems for sure, but I've got to bitch somewhere.
Sounds like you are walking barefoot on the floor and shower. A lot of those places are Section 8 units, or the last place people go, before the morgue. .Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I feel bad about people trying to raise families living in a damn motel. The rates can't be cheaper than a rental, but credit is probably an issue. Even at half the rate I paid for one night, a month would be $1,600+.
Bored
I had today set aside to help someone move but they hired a company.
Not complaining about what I was going to do, complaining because now I'm not busy.
Luckily this block of time ends & my schedule resumes @ 1600
That sucks, Irving.
I've stayed in a few shitty hotels like that before as well. Halfway wondering if I was gonna find a needle hidden somewhere.
I hope everyone had a decent Monday.
Wasn't there a Member Sightings Thread on the front page somewhere....I can't see/find it.
Motels, Hotels, are not designed for people living there full time. How do people afford $1600/month in rent? I am sure I could not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
The people "living" there are doing it very short term, I am sure.
-John
https://www.ar-15.co/threads/49599-M...light=sightingQuote:
Originally Posted by OtterbatHellcat
Hiya, OtterBatHellCat,
I just wanted to say that once. :)
-John
lol...
Thanks, Brother.
:)
I've seen members vehicles a few times, but have never been able to post it, because I am a pretty aggressive driver. (oops)
-John
I didn't have time for a pic, and I couldn't post it anyways.
Thanks for the link, Sir. Hope you had a good day today.
I've got a little bit of time to check amazon for a few things and weigh a purchase or two.