Re: Not a bird question

Hi Doug,

This looks to be

Witch's butter

Tremella mesenterica

I understand it's edible, but I'm not a mycologist, so don't try it on my opinion!

Rob Alexander
North Vancouver
http://www.flickr.com/photos/northvanrob/

On Thursday, January 30, 2020, 11:53:05 AM PST, Doug Cooper <hdcooper@...> wrote:

I hope that any fungo-philes out there might help confirm the identification of a fungus I encounter in Hastings Park this morning. ?I wasn’t sure where else to post a question. The New Savory Wild Mushroom book leads me to believe it might be an example of a jelly fungi, perhaps Orange Jelly, or Dacrymyces palmatus.

Thanks,?

Doug Cooper

East Vancouver

Re: Not a bird question

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Hi Doug,

I think it may be or what I usually call witches' butter.

Hope all is well, Greg

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:53 AM Doug Cooper <hdcooper@...> wrote:

I hope that any fungo-philes out there might help confirm the identification of a fungus I encounter in Hastings Park this morning.? I wasn’t sure where else to post a question. The New Savory Wild Mushroom book leads me to believe it might be an example of a jelly fungi, perhaps Orange Jelly, or Dacrymyces palmatus.

Thanks,?

Doug Cooper
East Vancouver

Not a bird question

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I hope that any fungo-philes out there might help confirm the identification of a fungus I encounter in Hastings Park this morning. ?I wasn’t sure where else to post a question. The New Savory Wild Mushroom book leads me to believe it might be an example of a jelly fungi, perhaps Orange Jelly, or Dacrymyces palmatus.

Thanks,?

Doug Cooper

East Vancouver

Re: World Bird Traveler

#68

So awesome! Thank you for sharing?

Re: World Bird Traveler

#67

Great job on the site Derek! Nice! 

Daniel Bastaja
danielbastaja@...

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On Jan 29, 2020, at 1:55 AM, Derek Matthews <derek@...> wrote:

Hi Birders – I’ve just put the finishing touches to our new bird travel website (www.worldbirdtraveler.com) where we post all of our trip reports, bird lists, accommodations, guides and other resources for birders looking for information when planning trips. All of the information provided is free and we’re always happy to answer bird related travel questions which hopefully helps people planning trips – hope it helps!
Derek Matthews - VARC

Counting Crows Vide

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Several members of the Langley Field Naturalists (LFN) have taken it upon themselves to make a count of North-western Crows roosting in South Aldergrove British Columbia. This short video from the first of four counts attempts to give a sense of the spectacle that unfolds every night at different locations throughout the Lower Mainland. Four groups of birders staged at different locations to try and gather the number of birds arriving from various directions. An estimated thirty-thousand birds were counted although we will have a better idea when all four counts have been completed.

Here are a few frames from the first of 4 counts we will be doing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ssv7JwilE

John Gordon
https://thecanadianwarbler.blogspot.com

World Bird Traveler

#65

Hi Birders – I’ve just put the finishing touches to our new bird travel website () where we post all of our trip reports, bird lists, accommodations, guides and other resources for birders looking for information when planning trips. All of the information provided is free and we’re always happy to answer bird related travel questions which hopefully helps people planning trips – hope it helps!

Derek Matthews - VARC

Re: Pheasant species?

#64

Thanks Keith ... I think you nailed it ... I'll let my friend know.?

Ted Goshulak
Langley, BC

Re: Pheasant species?

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Thanks Pamela ... I think it is an immature male Lady Amherst's Pheasant.

Ted Goshulak
Langley, BC

Re: Pheasant species?

#62

Thanks Roy ... I think it is an immature male Lady Amherst's Pheasant.

Ted Goshulak
Langley, BC

Liron’s Red Knot Rarity

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?Nice find at 96th Liron! ?Of course all birds are remarkable in their ways, shorebirds in particular.

However Red Knots are really something. This book relates the life of “Moonbird” (tagged B95), named thus as his documented migrations from the Arctic to/from Tierra del Fuego (including occasional detours to avoid Caribbean hurricanes) covered at least the distance to the moon and halfway back!

Perry Edwards
North Vancouver

Re: Pheasant species?

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Young male Lady Amherst?

Keith Taylor

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On Jan 27, 2020, at 7:34 PM, tgosh@... wrote:

This bird was seen by a friend on Burnaby Mountain, first, during the snowy period and today when it reappeared. To me it looks like a female Ring-necked Pheasant. The red markings on the head are what confuse me. Any thoughts?

Ted Goshulak
Langley, BC

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Re: Pheasant species?

#59

Someone’s lost their fancy chicken!
I think this is a Golden Pheasant, female or immature male?

Pamela Zevit

Re: Pheasant species?

#58

Escaped Reeve’s?

Later,
Roy

Check out my photographs at merlinator.smugmug.com
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From: tgosh@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:34:12 PM
Subject: [vanbcbirds] Pheasant species?

This bird was seen by a friend on Burnaby Mountain, first, during the snowy period and today when it reappeared. To me it looks like a female Ring-necked Pheasant. The red markings on the head are what confuse me. Any thoughts?

Ted Goshulak
Langley, BC

Pheasant species?

#57

This bird was seen by a friend on Burnaby Mountain, first, during the snowy period and today when it reappeared. To me it looks like a female Ring-necked Pheasant. The red markings on the head are what confuse me. Any thoughts?

Ted Goshulak
Langley, BC

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Re: Fledgling Anna's

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Hi Bob,

The occurrence and extent of corrugations on the culmen provides a reliable method for ageing NA hummingbirds?(Trochilidae). In all species, the bills of nestling hummingbirds are soft and deeply corrugated or grooved along the ramphotheca (the horny covering of the bill), lateral to the culmen. These deep grooves are easy to see under magnification as can be seen in the attached photos.?In the first 5-9 months after fledging the bill hardens and these grooves or corrugations are lost due to wear and the hardening process, the bill becoming smooth and hard (also photo attached).

If you enlarge the photos of your bird (especially the first one) you'll see the bill is smooth along it's entire length - if this was a very early fledged hummer the bill would appear soft and deeply corrugated so this is almost certainly an adult (after hatch year) female.

Hope this helps.

Derek

Derek Matthews (VARC)

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Re: Barrow's Goldeneye Giclee prints

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Barrow's Goldeneye Giclee prints

#54

I plan on producing Giclee prints of the enclosed painting of a pair of Barrow's Goldeneye. The price will be $195 each signed and unframed. I am pre selling to get an idea of how many people are interested and thus how many to print. It will measure 11 1/2" X 13 1/2". Please contact me personally to order at?pat.mary.taylor@...

i apologize if this advertisement is?not appropriate on this site but it is a hobby and bird related.?

Keith Taylor Victoria BC?

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Re: Fledgling Anna's

#53

There has been a growing body of evidence that the creation and maintenance of artificial food sources has altered migration patterns and seasonal behaviour of many hummer species. Anna’s are proving highly adaptable and have naturalized here in a profound way. So if food is available year-round it would be plausible that they would be able to take advantage of that by an extended breeding season. I am curious if they or other species breed year round elsewhere. Though to be honest I am more interested/concerned about the fate of our declining Rufous hummers. The Anna’s have become such a cause celeb that I wonder if the public would care/notice if Rufous hummers completely winked out here. 

Pamela Zevit

Re: Fledgling Anna's

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Hi Bob,

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Thanks for sharing your sighting. January 17 does sound rather early for fledgling Anna’s.

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On February 18, 2016 this article appeared about Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart monitoring an Anna’s Hummingbird nest outside his office window, and seeing 2 tiny eggs!

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For the first time in 10 years of watching hummingbirds at my feeder, I witnessed Anna’s Hummingbirds mating. That was 3 days ago on January 14^th, at minus 7 Celsius.

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Colin Clasen

Coquitlam, BC

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From: bob_dyer@... [mailto:bob_dyer@...]
Sent: January-17-20 4:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Fledgling Anna's

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I’m attaching two photos of what appears to be a very newly fledged Anna’s, which came to my feeder at about 8:30 am when the temperature was zero to minus one, and just sat there shivering with its eyes mostly closed.? When the sun started shining on the feeder it clearly perked up and started feeding occasionally, but it stayed there for about four hours and finally disappeared about 12:30 pm.? Its back was the usual iridescent green, and its bill was very small and thin (not immediately obvious in these telephoto shots).

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I know that Anna’s nest very early, but this is January 17!? I would not have been surprised if it had been late February or early March.

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Bob Dyer