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Una grata sorpresa poder inmortalizar a este individuo en el Parque Metropolitano de León. Los sonidos de alarma se dispararon entre patos, garzas y demás aves que estaban plácidamente alimentándose en la presa, pensé que era el Águila Pescadora, enfoco mi atención en el momento y de repente, entre los matorrales, viene a todo "galope"este hermoso Lince para intentar dar alcance a su presa. Todo fue tan rápido y emocionante, que solo puede realizar dos capturas con la cámara, sin embargo se pudo dar evidencia del
inusual registro.

been trying to figure out where this bird was for two years... persistence, a hunch and a tip put this one on my life list after I shed a few tears, did a jig, and gave out a loud yelp later in the day

Pink/purple guts when gravid, size and locality are distinctive of A. labiata. A. aurita is in the North Sea, and A. sp1 is found in harbors. A. labiata is the most common moon jelly on open coast California.

Found in a swarm of brown sea nettles Chrysaora fuscescens at the Monterey breakwater.

OK, I will test your patience with some scans of some old, marginal 35 mm slides. gcwarbler had retained many boxes of some of my culled slides from 20-30 years ago. I have enough to keep me busy for many weeks at least with scanning, etc. (thanks Chuck….I think!). These will all be of records I had not posted to iNat previously.

Red-crowned Parrot
emerging from nest cavity
San Benito,
Cameron Co., Texas
27 April 1995
image scanned from 35 mm slide

This bird has a big tuff of white down feathers stuck to its upper bill, making it seem as if it has a white forehead. It does not. With the white sky in the background this is difficult to make out on this 20 year old scanned slide. White-fronted Parrot, which might be suggested by a white forehead, do not occur in Texas and they have a large red patch surrounding the eye and are a smaller bird. Red-crowned Parrots have nested in this area since the late 1980s. This nest cavity was in a friend's yard and later fledged young.