This Louisiana Waterthrush was digi-videoed in HAS Boy Scout Woods, when its bright bubble-gum pink legs, and clean white throat can be seen to good effect.
Nice video Sam. You'll have to wait for the Northern Waterthrush as it is still around in the Botanical Garden in Quito today, along with an Acadian Flycatcher and others. I would like to be where you are though...
Haven't been on the outside slope for a while so I don't know. I haven't seen any Blackburnians in the Botanical Garden, just odd birds for the interandean valley. Leaving for Sweden in a week for three months so I will get some decent migration too.
A pair of tits (Blue and Great) in a London park 30 years back changed my life; I became a birder, and an obsessive birder by the following weekend. Works like Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book and Richard Millington's A Twitcher's Diary helped in no small part to nurture this in my formative years.
30 years on I am still an avid birder but have also learnt to appreciate other sectors of the natural world, especially frogs and primates in particular, through the undoubted influence of David Attenborough The Great and others. I now work as a full-time professional tour leader for Tropical Birding Tours, and now reside in the Andes of Ecuador. I love my job, sharing birds with people provides every bit of a buzz as a lifebird, which, of course, still creates a wave of excitement every time. I have been lucky enough to see well over 6550 bird species on my travels, which does not make me any more talented than anyone else, just one that is always greedy and impatient for more, which has taken me to all seven continents, and always yearning for that ONE...MORE...B-I-R-D!
I use Swarovski binoculars & scope, & shoot with Canon 7D and Canon 400m f5.6L lens.
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Nice video Sam. You'll have to wait for the Northern Waterthrush as it is still around in the Botanical Garden in Quito today, along with an Acadian Flycatcher and others. I would like to be where you are though...
Cheers
Roger Ahlman
Thanks Roger, are Blackburnian Warblers still abundant in the Tandayapa Valley too?
Haven't been on the outside slope for a while so I don't know. I haven't seen any Blackburnians in the Botanical Garden, just odd birds for the interandean valley. Leaving for Sweden in a week for three months so I will get some decent migration too.
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