Bird Watching: Camera Corner (What Kind of Camera Do You Use, Vol.2), 1 by snakeadelic

snakeadelic wrote:
pelletory, one of the HUGE joys of living where I do is that with the Continental Divide less than 2 hours away, we get both Pacific Slope and Great Basin birds! I have a pic or three of what I'm pretty sure is a gray flycatcher that one of the employees at Bannack State Park (aka possibly the most beautiful sagebrush I've ever seen...) said had only just been positively identified in the park. I added SEVEN species to my life list that day, and we were only there for half an hour! I so badly want to camp there in mid-May or so...But truthfully, no matter where I go I learn something. Went to a friend's country home about 15 miles away one day and was camera-stalking a call I thought was a weird magpie...turns out the Steller's Jays here sound -remarkably- different from those in my mom's coastal-foothill yard in Oregon. Our Steller's apparently have a 'magpie accent'! Below is the most spectacular of those seven, my first absolutely confirmed sighting--the male Western Tanager that blasted across the road at hood-ornament level just in front of the truck to perch like 12 feet away for its lunch.