A thread for Resin

Your mission, should you accept it, is to guess where I was.

1. House Sparrow
2. Common Myna
3. Black-crowned Night Heron
4. Cattle Egret
5. Common Waxbill

6. Zebra Dove
7. Sanderling
8. Red-whiskered Bulbul
9. Red-vented Bulbul
10. Red-crested Cardinal

11. Yellow-billed Cardinal
12. Northern Cardinal
13. Nutmeg Mannikin
14. Japanese White-eye
15. Saffron Finch

16. A really, really bad photo of a White-rumped Shama.
17. Erckel's Francolin
18. Pacific Golden Plover
19. Brown Booby (no photo)
20. Great Frigatebird (no photo)
21. White-tailed Tropicbird
22. Red-footed Booby
23. Spotted Dove

There are three more, but they'd be a dead giveaway. I'll save them for now.

The mix of Old World birds (e.g. Common Myna and Common Waxbill) and New World birds (e.g. Yellow-billed Cardinal and Northern Cardinal), plus Pacific Golden Plover, makes it Hawaii - lots of introduced species, plus a few oceanic natives.

Resin

Dang! Spot on! (Which comes as no surprise.)

The weather really wasn't good for birding; I'll have to go back.

24. Black-necked Stilt
25. Common Moorhen

Your bird pix turned out better than mine, Mags! But some of my underwater pix are brilliant! ;o)) You just let me know when you are going back to Hawaii and I will meet you there...again!

Peacock Grouper...I know it is not a bird but part of its name is. haha

Oooo, a game!!!! I want to play! Guess where I was:

Lavender Waxbill
Apapane (awful pic)
Yellow-fronted Canary

With an 'Apapane, it has to be Hawaii again!

Nice to get one of the Hawaiian endemics.

Resin

hee. thought I could fool ya with another Hawaii posting. I tried so hard to find the Nene Goose, but with no luck.

I didn't know you managed to get an Apapane, Marna. Where did you take the shot? Waimea Valley?

Kim, I so want to go back there - for longer. Nice shot of the peacock grouper. Are you going to do a thread on your underwater shots?

26. House Finch (?)
27. Yellow-fronted Canary (?)

In retrospect, Resin, I should have posted the birds one at a time and waited to see how long it would take you to narrow down my location.

Margaret, I got that at the Volcanoes National Park. They were everywhere there (calls) but were too difficult to find. Saw other birds but all too fast for pictures.

Nice, Marna! I guess I could start a fish thread, Mags...do we have a fish watching forum? hahahaha

Kim you'll have to do a fish thread on the Photography forum.

I have always thot we
should have critter foto forum ...

Well we do have the "wildlife" forum, so a threat there would be appropriate too.

Come, come. No need for any threats, Mrs Ed. :)

LOL!

Gah. i must get new fingers.