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  • A New Year, A New Website

    A New Year, A New Website

    Behind the scenes, a minor evolution has taken place. My new site presents my web and content strategy services in a clearer light while maintaining a focus on the fun things that I do in the nature and birding travel realm.

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  • James Currie on the Rogitama Hummingbird

    James Currie on the Rogitama Hummingbird

    James Currie, host of Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV, was on the scene in Colombia when remarkable news came through that a mystery hummingbird was feeding at a private nature reserve three hours north of Bogotá. At first, the species was thought to be the Bogotá Sunangel (Heliangelus zusii), a lost relic known to science only [...]

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  • Review of Yellowstone Valley Lodge (Livingston, Montana)

    Review of Yellowstone Valley Lodge (Livingston, Montana)

    Yellowstone Valley Lodge is a collection of ten small, contemporary ranch cabins and a gourmet restaurant situated on an old ranching property in the aptly named Paradise Valley, Montana. We stayed here our first three nights of our grand Yellowstone/Tetons adventure…and are still looking back at it with fondness. This is why: Indeed, a peaceful [...]

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  • A Bit on Bozeman, Montana

    A Bit on Bozeman, Montana

    After landing in Bozeman, we had three days and nights before meeting up with old friends in the park. So we booked a stay at the Yellowstone Valley Lodge (review forthcoming) and entertained ourselves with lunch in Bozeman at the eclectic Garage Soup Shack & Mesquite Grill, which is housed in a converted auto shop [...]

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  • How to Use RSS feeds

    How to Use RSS feeds

    These days, websites deliver news to your door via RSS feeds. You can grab the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs and news sites to make sure you stay informed.

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BIRDING

Massive Rochester, NY Crow Roost Targeted By City

Massive Rochester, NY Crow Roost Targeted By City

Rochester, NY is home to a magnificent crow roost — over 20,000 birds strong. The crows leave the roost between first light and dawn and disperse to 20 miles or more all around. By early afternoon they start heading back, gathering at a series of pre-roosts along several flight lines. These are typically noisy affairs and increase in size heading in. For the better of 106 years this crow roost has been observed, appreciated, and counted, but now, the roost is in jeopardy.

WATCH TONIGHT! Aerial Assassins premieres on Nat Geo WILD!

WATCH TONIGHT! Aerial Assassins premieres on Nat Geo WILD!

  Aerial Assassins premieres on Nat Geo WILD TONIGHT! In this episode, James tracks Harris Hawks in the Sonoran Desert. Should be fun to watch, as Harris Hawks are cooperative hunters and James attempts to get this behavior on film. AIR TIMES: Aerial Assassins premieres Friday, January 20th at 10 pm EST. It will re-air Saturday, [...]

James Currie on the Rogitama Hummingbird

James Currie on the Rogitama Hummingbird

James Currie, host of Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV, was on the scene in Colombia when remarkable news came through that a mystery hummingbird was feeding at a private nature reserve three hours north of Bogotá. At first, the species was thought to be the Bogotá Sunangel (Heliangelus zusii), a lost relic known to science only [...]

TRAVEL

WATCH TONIGHT! Aerial Assassins premieres on Nat Geo WILD!

WATCH TONIGHT! Aerial Assassins premieres on Nat Geo WILD!

  Aerial Assassins premieres on Nat Geo WILD TONIGHT! In this episode, James tracks Harris Hawks in the Sonoran Desert. Should be fun to watch, as Harris Hawks are cooperative hunters and James attempts to get this behavior on film. AIR TIMES: Aerial Assassins premieres Friday, January 20th at 10 pm EST. It will re-air Saturday, [...]

New National Geographic Series on Birds: Aerial Assassins

New National Geographic Series on Birds: Aerial Assassins

The National Geographic WILD TV network is debuting Aerial Assassins, hosted by James Currie, on Friday, January 20, 2012. The new hour-long show delves into the Sonoran Desert to track Harris’s Hawks.

Birding in Jamaica: Black-billed Streamertail

Birding in Jamaica: Black-billed Streamertail

Birding in Jamaica!   Jamaica is not the first destination I’d think of to go birding, but after watching this episode of Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV, I’m ready to plan our next family vacation. A sparkling blue ocean, stunning coastline, perfect climate, and a fantastically laid-back atmosphere with beautiful people and interesting culture is just [...]

TECHNOLOGY

Google Weakens Privacy Policy

Google Weakens Privacy Policy

Facebook, I mean Google, has changed it privacy policy to bring user information across all its products (Gmail, G+, YouTube, or Android store). Changes will go into effect March 1, 2012. “Google plans to start combining information the company collects about each user of its various websites and services into a single profile, the company [...]

WordPress Users: Protect Your Site From Hackers with Timthumb Upgrade

WordPress Users: Protect Your Site From Hackers with Timthumb Upgrade

Lately I’ve been hearing grumbles about hacked Wordpress sites. A hacked site presents a HUGE problem for anyone, but especially for WordPress users who don’t have coding skills to ferret out and fix the problem. One well-known vulnerability is with a script WordPress uses to re-size images, called Timthumb image thumbnail creation library. It’s a popular [...]

How to Use RSS feeds

How to Use RSS feeds

These days, websites deliver news to your door via RSS feeds. You can grab the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs and news sites to make sure you stay informed.

HUMOR/RANTS

Animated Short: Musings on The Big Year

Animated Short: Musings on The Big Year

Hurricanes rage, floods sweep, rains pummel, mud buries, and fires incinerate….in the background, meanies and cronies run amuck in our capitals, dummies run for high office, and closet gays try to counsel the gay away in perfectly nice people. The budget deficit is skyrocketing, the richer get richer, the poor get poorer, we’re waging two [...]

Animated short: <i>Gulls</i>. Are WE the crazy nut job birders?

Animated short: Gulls. Are WE the crazy nut job birders?

My latest animated short is produced in honor of this weekend’s World Series of Birding, and is inspired by a sketch performed by the brilliant comedy team of Mitchell & Webb. The sketch is called “Are we the Baddies?” and in order to fully understand my short, you probably want to watch it first. Or after.. The short pits California gullers against Cape May birders during the World Series of Birding.

Animated Short: There it is! Over there!

Animated Short: There it is! Over there!

It’s Friday! Time for another animated short. Chasing Rare Birds with the Directionally Challenged Have you ever been birding with someone who doesn’t know how to describe the location of a bird-and simply CAN’T put you on it?  Then this short is for you. Watch and weep. produced by Laura Kammermeier via that awesome software: [...]

More Recent Posts

Nikon Presents Jonathan Wood and the Raptor Project

January 26, 2012 | 0
Nikon Presents Jonathan Wood and the Raptor Project

At last fall’s Extreme Raptor Weekend Nikon celebrities including James Currie (Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV) and Master Falconer  Jonathan Wood (The Raptor Project) convened at Cabela’s Cabela’s in Hamburg, PA to talk birds, birding travel, and caring for injured raptors. Jonathan Wood does an amazing job exciting people of all ages to understand and appreciate birds [...]

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How Amazon Kills Publishers: War or Survival?

January 18, 2012 | 0
How Amazon Kills Publishers: War or Survival?

The Internet continues to fuel a democratization of the media, and with it are associated battles, scrambles, and all-out wars. What will emerge is a new way of digital life. One result has been a swift change in the publishing industry. Major online stores such as Amazon have wielded massive changes in the marketplace, first by [...]

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Observation: Ornithophobia Much Like Ornithophilia

November 12, 2011 | 0
Observation: Ornithophobia Much Like Ornithophilia

From WIKIPEDIA: “Ornithophobia can cause the following symptoms: breathlessness, dizziness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, or a full-blown anxiety attack.” Now is it just me or are these identical to the symptoms expressed by…a, hmmm, [...]

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