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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Napper on September 29, 2018, 05:40:01 PM

Title: American Bittern, Downsview
Post by: Napper on September 29, 2018, 05:40:01 PM
Last week a friend at work said to me he had an unusual looking bird in his back yard on Powell rd, Downsview.

"edit" He is not a birder so he asked me I could figure out what it was" edit"

After about 10 minutes of discussion I sent him a link to this link https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ame ... n/overview (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Bittern/overview)

Don't know why it settled in his back yard :?: .. but it did..He sent me an image last week confirming the Id.

I'll try to post it here Monday. Not my photo , can I just link into a thread? I usually use FLKR and a web link etc.

Napper  :)
Title: Re: American Bittern, Downsview
Post by: Kris Ito on September 30, 2018, 08:47:59 AM
Wow! Can't imagine finding such a great bird in my own yard. I'm not sure what type of "thread" you want to link to, but you can easily upload the actual photo if you have it. I haven't done it for awhile myself, but try this:

-Click on the "Upload attachment" tab that you see below.
-Select "Choose file"; try not to use over-sized files since they won't fit very well without making readers have to scroll around the image.
-Click  "Add the file"
-Click  "Place in line"
-Click "Preview" and you should now see your image!

Hope this works for you.  -Kris
Title: Re: American Bittern, Downsview
Post by: Napper on September 30, 2018, 10:10:43 AM
yep, its on my computer at work.

Image was taken on a cell phone, I don't want to change the image data by rotating it.

Napper :)
Title: Re: American Bittern, Downsview
Post by: Napper on October 01, 2018, 07:50:29 PM
yeah, I just put it up here viewtopic.php?f=14&t=17535 (http://outdoorontario.net/birds/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=17535)

not great as it was taken by a cell phone, EXIF Says  09-06-2018  time 14:08:44

Napper :)