Here's a short bit of digi-video of my life masked duck. I love that you can hear Phoebe commenting on a flyover Caspian tern in the background. We were birding at Viera Wetlands south of Cocoa Beach in east-central Florida. Viera (a sewage-treatment facility, natch) is one of the primo birding spots of the area and is especially great for bird photography. The duck was at least 120 yards away when I shot this.
Special thanks to Jeff Bouton and Mike Freiberg for the directions to what is my life bird #668 (or is it 669?). I can't dismember.
Anyway, super awesomely cool bird! This species is one I'd dipped on many times in Texas. It's especially sweet to get to see such a rarity with Phoebe (whose life list is not that far behind mine).
Huzzah!
Special thanks to Jeff Bouton and Mike Freiberg for the directions to what is my life bird #668 (or is it 669?). I can't dismember.
Anyway, super awesomely cool bird! This species is one I'd dipped on many times in Texas. It's especially sweet to get to see such a rarity with Phoebe (whose life list is not that far behind mine).
Huzzah!
Nice video, but the best part is that Phoebe can tell a Caspian tern from a gull. Osmotic transfer of bird-knowhow?
ReplyDeleteGreat bird! One I've dipped on several times as well, including at Viera a few years back.
ReplyDeleteAnd to get the male with the cool black mask? Très sweet!
As I get older it seems that time gets faster and faster, relatively speaking. The "life bird theory of relativity" seems to similarly hold true: The more I go birding the more life birds become fewer and further between and therefore my level of excitement increases exponentially each time I see a life bird.
ReplyDeleteI think you and your Masked Duck proved my theory!
Of course she recognized it! Phoebe had seen her mother working away on her beautiful painting of a Caspian tern for a BWD cover!
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That's my Mimi, always has it figgered out before me...:-)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the Masked Duck. I have always thought that the bigger your lifelist gets, the fewer and further between the lifers come, which makes them all the more special.
ReplyDeleteI just seen the video. Its very interesting.
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