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Post by aDave on Nov 5, 2018 0:05:16 GMT -5
On the heels of a great photo thread by stephan seen here, my wife and I went up to the Ojai Raptor Center open house today. The Ojai facility hosts an an open house two times a year. We happened to catch this one today. We have never gone there before, but considering we had some successful barn owl nestings and fledgings on a family property, we had an interest in going there. In comparison to what stephan might have seen in his visit, we did not have the variety of birds that he did. I'm not faulting the Ojai facility for that...I'm just making a general comment. That said, here is some of what we saw today. Eastern Screech Owl   Peregrine Falcon   Kestrel   Great Horned Owl    Turkey Vulture   Burrrowing Owl  Barn Owl   |
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Post by jimaz on Nov 5, 2018 0:59:15 GMT -5
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by MsAli on Nov 5, 2018 8:07:30 GMT -5
Great pictures!
I wonder if they just dont get as many birds to rehab?
The owls are so dam cute
I dont think that's a Mississippi Kite though, looks like a Peregrine. ?
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Nov 5, 2018 9:10:09 GMT -5
aDave Great pictures! That second screech owl picture is priceless. It needs to go on a calendar. He was giving you the stink eye for taking his picture for sure. 
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 5, 2018 9:13:41 GMT -5
Very cool! Since I used to work there this was like old home week to me. Your Id'd kite is a pergrine Falcon though. Wonder if that Turkey Vulture is "Handsome" the one we had when I was there. He was a character!. One of the reasons you could not see a lot of birds is only the Educational birds can be displayed to the public. Rehab birds , of which there are often many more types, cannot be displayed to the public up close.....Mel
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Post by stephan on Nov 5, 2018 9:41:54 GMT -5
Great pics. I always love the see-through nostrils of vultures.
The number of educational birds at the Davis Raptor Center definitely varies. With the rehab birds, they try to minimize human contact. This year some of the educational birds were non-releasable due to being too used to humans.
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Post by aDave on Nov 5, 2018 12:38:58 GMT -5
Thanks folks! MsAli and Sabre52 , I've fixed the ID for the falcon.  I'm no bird expert. They had an ID poster at the display booth, but perhaps it was for a bird to be brought out later in the day. Don't know, as we were there early for the event which was going to run four hours. By the time we left, there was still over two hours before closing. Mel, I did not pay specific attention to the name of the vulture, but "Handsome" does seem to ring a bell. Further, Handsome is listed on the ORC website as being one of their educational ambassadors, so that was probably him. According to staff there, the longest resident is the barn owl. He (Tito) has been at the Center for 14 years. |
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Post by MsAli on Nov 5, 2018 13:59:18 GMT -5
Thanks folks! MsAli and Sabre52 , I've fixed the ID for the falcon. I'm no bird expert. They had an ID poster at the display booth, but perhaps it was for a bird to be brought out later in the day. Don't know, as we were there early for the event which was going to run four hours. By the time we left, there was still over two hours before closing. Mel, I did not pay specific attention to the name of the vulture, but "Handsome" does seem to ring a bell. Further, Handsome is listed on the ORC website as being one of their educational ambassadors, so that was probably him. According to staff there, the longest resident is the barn owl. He (Tito) has been at the Center for 14 years. I'm glad you got to go and take some pictures. And it's really a cool thing to see a bird like them up close |
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Post by fantastic5 on Nov 5, 2018 14:05:21 GMT -5
Fabulous pictures aDave! Thank you so much for sharing  |
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Post by aDave on Nov 5, 2018 14:39:22 GMT -5
I'm glad you got to go and take some pictures. And it's really a cool thing to see a bird like them up close We almost didn't go, but I'm glad we did at the end of the day. I'll have to plan better next time. The event was four hours (12-4), and the temp was 90 degrees. I'm kind of thinking that perhaps due to stress (the amount of people and heat) that maybe the birds were doing two hour sessions at a time. We arrived around 12:30 and left around 1:30. When we left, the same birds were still out. Maybe the thing to do is arrive around 1:30ish, get some photos, and then see if the birds are rotated out. Guess I'll have to call and find out how they do that.  |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 5, 2018 15:46:21 GMT -5
Great pics, Dave. I've thoroughly enjoyed the two recent raptor threads. If I can't get that close, I guess these pics are the next best thing. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 5, 2018 15:50:06 GMT -5
 Love it! |
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Post by aDave on Nov 5, 2018 21:49:35 GMT -5
Great pics, Dave. I've thoroughly enjoyed the two recent raptor threads. If I can't get that close, I guess these pics are the next best thing. Thanks for sharing! Thanks Randy. When we talk next, I'll have to tell you the story about my issues with the camera. I had a "malfunction" of sorts, and I didn't originally take it in with me. Glad I was able to get it sorted out. |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 6, 2018 11:44:54 GMT -5
Great pics, Dave. I've thoroughly enjoyed the two recent raptor threads. If I can't get that close, I guess these pics are the next best thing. Thanks for sharing! Thanks Randy. When we talk next, I'll have to tell you the story about my issues with the camera. I had a "malfunction" of sorts, and I didn't originally take it in with me. Glad I was able to get it sorted out. Glad you got it worked out. Hopefully, it was nothing wrong with the camera or, more importantly, the lens. Lens cap?  We'll talk soon and I'll get the scoop. |
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 6, 2018 16:45:52 GMT -5
Holy smokes, Tito is still kicking!!!!! That's pretty amazing because periodically we'd get a disease go through the place and some of the Ed birds would succumb. I know Luna, the Great Horned Owl, one of my favorite birds died not long ago. I've gotten so I never ask Kim because I'm always afraid I'll hear Rosie the Red Tailed Hawk has died and I trained that bird from a young'un and got real attached. I miss her a lot....Mel
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Post by aDave on Nov 6, 2018 21:14:46 GMT -5
Holy smokes, Tito is still kicking!!!!! That's pretty amazing because periodically we'd get a disease go through the place and some of the Ed birds would succumb. I know Luna, the Great Horned Owl, one of my favorite birds died not long ago. I've gotten so I never ask Kim because I'm always afraid I'll hear Rosie the Red Tailed Hawk has died and I trained that bird from a young'un and got real attached. I miss her a lot....Mel Mel, in looking at the website, Rosie is still there. I know you were extremely attached to her. I wish I could have gotten a photo of her. |
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Post by aDave on Nov 6, 2018 21:20:31 GMT -5
Thanks Randy. When we talk next, I'll have to tell you the story about my issues with the camera. I had a "malfunction" of sorts, and I didn't originally take it in with me. Glad I was able to get it sorted out. Glad you got it worked out. Hopefully, it was nothing wrong with the camera or, more importantly, the lens. Lens cap? We'll talk soon and I'll get the scoop. In short, it was the wrong button being pushed which caused my led screen to go blank. Never had that issue before. I was finally able to figure it out, but only after speaking with another guy there who had a 7D body. You'll get more detail later. |
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Post by parfive on Nov 11, 2018 15:32:19 GMT -5
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Post by aDave on Nov 11, 2018 21:21:02 GMT -5
Yep, wildlife will be impacted by the fires, and that's a sad thing. I remember being at the Sayre fire and watching a Great Horned Owl that was obviously affected by ash in the eyes and effectively being blind. It couldn't fly, and it was simply tumbling along the hillside. Thanks for the info. |
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I'm no bird expert. They had an ID poster at the display booth, but perhaps it was for a bird to be brought out later in the day. Don't know, as we were there early for the event which was going to run four hours. By the time we left, there was still over two hours before closing.
