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Midwest Birding Symposium

Approaches to Bird Identification & A Kirtland’s Warbler

September 27, 2009

I recall an interesting conversation I had at the Midwest Birding Symposium on approaches to bird identification. To set the stage, I also dug up a few more decent shots of the Kirtland’s Warbler at East Harbor State Park, western Lake Erie in Ohio (September 18, 2009).
At lunch I had the pleasure of sitting with [...]

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Revisiting The Kirtland’s Warbler

September 22, 2009

The hour of 3 am and I are becoming intimate bedfellows. That being the case, I may as well prop up my eyelids with toothpicks, wince from the glare of my screen in this darkened room, and report on my trip to the Midwest Birding Symposium.
I went into the symposium believing that I was here [...]

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My Life Kirtland’s Warbler (i.e., Life Is Good At MBS)

September 18, 2009

My $75 registration fee was just returned in spades. During one of the early morning talks at MBS today, my cell phone vibrated with a very curious message: “Kirtland’s Warbler at East Harbor State Park, Meadow Trail.”
At that point, I had to bail on the fine and illustrious speaker, Jim McCormac, because I knew he’d [...]

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Good morning from the Midwest Birding Symposium (MBS)

September 18, 2009

 
Writing from the Coffee and Cream cafe in Lakeside, Ohio. Weather is splendid, there’s good energy in the air, and many happy people walking around anticipating opening ceremonies that occur in about two hours. 
I spent the majority of the first day at MBS birder-watching. Migrant flocks of old friends mixed with others I’d only seen [...]

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