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Pixilated Bird Photo ID #4.0: Winners! And Pixilated Bird Photo ID #5.0 (the last for a while)

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The following sharp-eyed SVBC members correctly identified Pixilated Bird #4.0 as an Elegant Euphonia!  Well done.

Roni Chernin

Alison Olivieri

Bley Fernandez Vega

R. Ruvalo

Linda Threatte

And now here is Pixilated Bird Photo ID #5.0.  This will be our last one for a while.  Thanks to all who played along.

Send your answer to:

eltangaral@gmail.com

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Pixilated Bird ID #3.0: Winners! And Pixilated Bird ID #4.0

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For correctly identifying Pixilated Bird #3.0, the Blue-Gray Tanager, congratulations to the following SVBC members:

Roni Chernin

Linda Threatte

Nancy Warshower

David Fielding

Tom Wilkinson

Here’s our next bird; more challenging? It is a beauty.  Send your responses to:

eltangaral@gmail.com

Good luck.

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Pixilated Bird ID #2.0: Winners!

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Here are the first five SVBC members to correctly identify Pixilated Bird 2.0 as a Resplendent Quetzal.

Kathy Bauer

Jo Davidson

Lety Andino

David Fielding

Tom Wilkinson

Well done all!  And bonus points to the great and powerful Kathy Bauer for figuring out, if you squint up your eyes when looking at the pixilated photo, it looks much clearer.

Next Pixilated Bird ID coming later this week.  And 3.0 will be more difficult, I promise.

Pixilated Bird ID: #2.0

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Maybe Pixilated Bird ID #1 was just poorly executed.  Maybe this whole idea could be fun, fun, fun with a better photo!  We’ll start off with a pretty easy one.

Pixilated Bird ID #2.0.  Identify the bird shown below and send your answer to:

eltangaral@gmail.com

You won’t actually win anything but I will post the names of the first five SVBC members who correctly identify…this bird.

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Recycled Plastics: New Business in Sabalito

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Please join the San Vito Bird Club in supporting a new business in our area: PRC (Plastico-Reciclando-Concreto).  Recycled plastics are used in the construction of beautiful and durable furniture and now even bird feeders!  See link below.

https://www.facebook.com/plasticorecicladoconcreto/

 

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Bird Walk: Sunday, Feb. 10th

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Please join the San Vito Bird Club for a 7:30am bird walk at the Wilson Botanical Garden (Las Cruces Station).  Meet at Reception for a brief update on SVBC activities then a walk through the lower gardens where many of the trees are filled with fruit and hopefully many birds!

Binoculars available as needed.

(photo courtesy of Helen LeVasseur)

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SVBC Bird Feeder Contest: 2019!

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As soon as you read this you may begin the 2019 San Vito Bird Club Bird Feeder Contest!

Here are the ridiculously simple rules for this year’s contest:

  1. Count the number of species of birds that come to your bird feeder from…NOW…until 8am Sunday, March 3rd.
  2. Your feeder(s) must be viewable from one single location.  In other words, you cannot count species from feeder #1 near your house and feeder #2 which is out in the pasture.
  3. All bird species may be counted that eat directly from the feeder or directly below the feeder.
  4. What food items you put on the feeder is up to you!
  5. Bring a paper copy of your bird feeder list to the SVBC Annual Meeting no later than 8:30 am on Sunday, March 3rd.  Meeting to be held, as usual, at Cascata del Bosco.
  6. Your list is subject to review.  For example, if you claim to have seen an Emperor Penguin, Chilean Flamingo or Archaeopteryx on your feeder we will probably need to have a talk.

There will be three winners this year:

  1. Greatest number of bird species.
  2. Second greatest number of bird species.
  3. And a new category; best bird feeder photograph.  To win this category you MUST send a digital copy of your best photograph to me (Greg Homer) NO LATER than midnight, Feb. 28th of this year.  Please do not send more than one photo; only your first photo will be judged.  Judging and selecting the winning photograph will be done by three of our premier Pajareros del Sur.  Send your photo to: eltangaral@gmail.com

Good luck all.  More to come about the annual meeting very soon.

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(photo courtesy of Helen LeVasseur)