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Okay, boys and girls, here they are -- all 277 shots I took. (The first few dozen shots are the Aransas jetty, which Mike (birdwatcher) and I visited before the get-together.) I regret that I spent too much time fishing to get everybody featured. To those not appearing, I apologize. I also indulged myself with some artsy-fartsy landscape shots on the final evening, which some of you may enjoy.

This is a public album, so if you see any shots of yourselves or others that appeal to you, be my guest and download them for your pleasure.

PINS album

And more.
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more

again

last ones.

good pictures rocky and miles.

I would like to be there if every thing will be well planed and well arranged.

Welcome to the 24 hour campfire Ralph.
This trip was in Aug., about a month ago Ralph.
The trip is a free trip.
We can charge you say a thousand dollars and we will make sure that you have fishing gear, shade, chair, food.

My main objection was that Rog really dropped the ball on the turtle girls this time around All I saw was two turtle guys.

We has an amazing time. The kids enjoyed themselves, and though it was a lot of work for my wife and me, we sure enjoyed meeting the people from the campfire.
Here are a few select shots from the trip. I will post the link the photo album once I fix it, since it seems to have had trouble uploading a few of them. There are 300+ pictures with lots of the kids, that I will spare you.

Besides the unintended skewering of our "shark fisherboy" the other low point was the pickup truck towing away the lines of 11 or so fishing rods.
Mike and Miles


Rocky documenting


"I'll show you how to yak baits out"




Petting fish


yummy?
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Ceviche time - filleting our fish

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A few more

Part of Camp


Keep formation!


Nap time



Tangle time



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Unaffected lucky soul
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Great pics! Looks like a fine time.

Well, before this thread goes off the boards, I'd just like to point out again what a good time it was in such good company.

The presence Sponxx and his family in particular added depth and a touch of grace to the group that was appreciated by all of us aging geezers.

Anyhow, as promised, a reference to the chimney swift, one of the most common and familiar of American birds(moving along the Texas Gulf Coast by the thousand at present), and the occasion of the discovery of its wintering grounds, way the heck out there in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes.



http://www.fws.gov/news/historic/1944/19441112.pdf

In 1934, in an attempt to discover just to where these birds were disappearing, the ornithologist John Calhoun and others banded 550,000 swifts as they roosted in chimneys in the upper south. It was the largest all-volunteer effort to study a migratory bird ever undertaken.

For years they continued banding swifts, discovering practically nothing of the half a million birds ringed and released, until 13 swift bands were recovered by a group of American Indians who had turned them into a missionary in Amazonian Peru.

Apparently the Indians had been smoking out a massive dead tree in the rainforest to harvest the birds roosting inside, a practice centuries old, only to find, this time, tiny metal bands on their legs. Birds that had been banded in Nashville, Tennessee. And thus, the wintering grounds of the Chimney Swift were discovered.

I have no idea where the Yanayaco River is, but the durned things must be thick as fleas down there by November, being as they nest in chimneys all over the eastern half of North America, heck we even have a pair nesting in a roof duct at my school every year.

Another Andean specialty (including Peru); the Cerulean Warbler, is best known only to bird watchers....



Note the unusually long wings, so much so that this 4" bird builds its nest atop larger horizontal branches with space for it to dive vertically and gain airspeed when leaving the nest.

It has to have those longer wings because its a long-hop migrant, most flying non-stop from the Andean cloud forests to the highlands of Central America to refuel, and then again direct and non-stop from those mountains clear to the Appalachians and other locations in the Northeast.

Here's a pic from the lower Hudson River Valley in New York State, about thirty miles upriver from NYC and yepper, there's Ceruleans, that spend the winter following army ant swarms in the Andes, nesting every year in the immediate area of the photo...



Birdwatcher

Birdy, I remember you telling that story.
You won't find these anywhere near the Hudson.
Gallito de las rocas
Rocky would like the english version of the name
Cock-of-the-rocks... although it should be "Little cock of the Rocks"

Amazing coloration!

And before any smartaleck says it, that name does NOT translate to Rocky's Little Cock...

???

Most birds dont even HAVE a penis, including that one.


I thought everyone knew that.

Try using a examine body weight. These loads have cables that come through it to help get base. When battling a seafood, the cable turns so it won't catch. The key is to use these sharp �claws� with huge sight. Create your rig, position the eye of the connect onto one of the cables. The whole rig is compacted and you'll be able to throw further out without it rotating about.

Is that English?

Ed

Actually I'm glad those guys showed up, upon reflection I didn't think what I wrote last was very funny, and to have it left hanging as a thread ending was kind of a pain.

Maybe them random posts are triggered by post content.

Or maybe space aliens...

I've seen some wickedly funny translations of Chinese to English in electronics equipment manuals, but that was WAY beyond a language barrier!

Ed