Category Archives: life bird
O’ Canada
I’ve taken a break from birding for the last three weeks, aside from walks with the dog in our woods, as I work on some Airstream projects. Today, my friends at Grow Compost, a wonderful local business, had a day-long … Continue reading
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Chouette lapone trouvé!
Three Mad Birders from central Vermont — Ali Wagner, Louanne Nielsen, and Scott Sainsbury — spent last Sunday looking for Great Gray Owls in Quebec. Here is a guest post by Scott describing their successful outing. We made our way … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Great Grey Owl, MadBirders, Montreal
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Birding with Dane
As I noted last month, birding with grandchildren is one of my joys. I’m appreciating it even more as I read the number of “What sparked your interest in birding?” posts where so often, birders say that they first got … Continue reading
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Pine Grosbeaks – finally
As I have noted before, a Canadian ornithologist, Ron Pittaway, each year issues a Winter Finch Forecast. He notes that there is a “widespread tree seed crop failure in the Northeast” this year. It looks like a good year for winter … Continue reading
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Tagged life birds, local birding, North Branch Nature Center, Pine Grosbeak
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Birding by the Dredging Containment Site
I’ve been birding in Maryland for a few days with my grandson, Dane, and seeing a nice array of mid-Atlantic birds. Today, we drove up to the Swan Creek/Cox Creek Impoundment area outside of Baltimore to look for a Red … Continue reading
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A Couple of Life Birds
Like many birders, I subscribe to listserves for areas where I plan to travel and “lurk” on them, checking out what others are reporting in the days and weeks prior to my arrival. Thus, I was reading MASSBIRDS prior to … Continue reading
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Snowy Owl — finally
As all birders know, Snowy Owls by the thousands have shown up across the northern tier of the U.S. I think I’m the only birder in Vermont who hadn’t seen one, until yesterday. We had some show up in Vermont … Continue reading
A Great Birding Outing
Yesterday, Mary and I loaded up Penny and left early for some back road birding north of Rockport. We started tallying gulls and “telephone line” birds and soon were on a Farm-to-Market road heading toward the hamlet of Bayside. These … Continue reading
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Blogging with an iPad
Yesterday, I did some birding at the Salisbury State Reservation with my dog and found a nice mix of shorebirds and waterfowl. This cooperative Northern Mockingbird posed for a digiscoped photo. I got life bird 304, some White-rumped Sandpipers, who … Continue reading
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Birding with Joppa Flats Education Center
Today, I took part in one of the Wednesday morning birding events from the Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport, MA. There’s a faithful core of birders who have been doing this for years but each week, many others attend … Continue reading
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