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Green Jay: a Caribbean Creamsicle

January 6, 2010

I never tire of examining the plumage of Green Jays…the blacks and blues, the greens and yellows along with their chartreuse sibling. When I peer at them long enough, I see ocean beaches. I see Caribbean creamsicles, a coral reef with wings. And this makes my eyes melt.

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Tri-colored Heron

December 29, 2009
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Watching Gulls at Niagara Falls

December 22, 2009

Cool update: I added a 5 min audio recording of Peter giving us gull neophytes a tutorial on the Thayer’s >>> Kumlien’s >>> Iceland Gull cline.
Watching gulls. That’s what birders in the Great Lakes are wont to do in winter. And the place to do it, at least around here (globally speaking) is Niagara Falls. 
Niagara Parks describes [...]

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Bird Photography? Yes, I Can. So Can You.

November 24, 2009

 
 
I’m not an idiot.
In fact, I pride myself on being able to figure things out when I put my mind to it. I get that from my mom. She tinkers and dings and wrestles and pulls, then all of a sudden, your zipper is fixed, your model is built, your chair is reupholstered, your wallpaper is [...]

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Scaled Quail at Martin Ranch, Texas

November 16, 2009

 

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Least Grebe at Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival

November 14, 2009
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Buff-bellied Hummingbird at RGV

November 13, 2009

I have exactly ten seconds to post something before festivities continue, so here is an image of Buff-bellied Hummingbird seen at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. More soon!
 

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Revved up for RGV!

November 10, 2009

In two days I’ll be escaping the chill of upstate New York and plunking myself down in the sun-drenched land of southeastern Texas for the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Birding Festival (held in Harlingen, Texas).
It looks like festival attendees are in for some good weather, as long as Hurricane Ida behaves. Already, early reports say that [...]

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Rio Grande Valley Festival Coming Soon!

November 3, 2009

Apparently, the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher that showed up in central NY last week had a message for me: Get to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival! And quick!
“You REALLY ought to get the Rio Grande Valley Birding festival, Laura,” said a friend a few years back. “It’s one of the biggest festivals of the year, it [...]

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Scenes from a Boston “Duck Tour”

October 11, 2009

Coffee, cards, beer, Betsy’s home cooking, and watching the kids destroy the house. 
Those were the only requests we had on a recent trip to visit some of our oldest and dearest friends and their two kids in Boston, MA. What more do old friends need? 
Being nature geeks, we had brief hopes for a whale-watching tour out of Rye, [...]

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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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