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May is typically the month when I drive thousands of miles criss-crossing the county trying to see all the returning breeding birds and the rarer passage migrants as they wing their way nort...
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Migration in Chicago is always interesting and exciting. So far, the highlight of the 2015 spring season has been the arrival of a male Kirtland's Warbler at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. This ...
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A FAVORITE BIRDING SITE NEAR OUR NE ILLINOIS HOME IS THE 175 ACRE BLISS WOODS FOREST PRESERVE IN SUGAR GROVE . A BIKE TRAIL CONNECTS BLISS WOODS WITH THE 402 ACRE HANNAFORD WOODS-NICKELS FARM FOR...
We put a lot of effort into planning our Big Day route, and stuck very close to the plan. Anyone who has done a Big Day knows that much of the work is done before the day itself, and ours wa...
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TWO DAYS AFTER WE LEFT THE FAIR SKIES OF FLORIDA BEHIND. WE ARRIVED AT OUR SECOND HOME IN NE ILLINOIS. SUNBURST OVER THE BACK GATE: CLOUDS OVER THE EVERGLADES: WE WERE HARSHLY GREE...
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Sandhill Crane Courtship Dance Sandhill Cranes are magnificent creatures. Many migrate down to Florida during the winter from their breeding grounds up north, but some nonmigratory birds sta...
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Rufous-browed Peppershrike Greetings all! We continue our Guatemalan trek into a beautiful area known as Lake Atitlan or El Lago Atitlan. There are wonderful accommodations here for a ...
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I am always captivated by the beauty of the birds I notice while on birding excursions. More often than not, the birds are seen and photographed at quite a distance. Every once in a while, I am ...
SPARROWS CAN BE A CONFUSING LOT. I'LL ADMIT THAT, WITHOUT A GOOD LOOK, SOMETIMES I MUST SIMPLY CALL THEM LBBS (LITTLE BROWN BIRDS). BRILLIANT COLORS HELP IDENTIFY THE ORIOLES AND WARBLERS, BUT OF...
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A nice Eastern Bluebird that spent a few sunny moments on my front porch After averaging just over 20 species a day in my yard during February, by mid-March I was almost always getting ove...
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White-breasted Nuthach Here in Florida we have 67 counties. One day I'd love to visit every one of those counties to do some birding. Right now in my stage of life, I do not have many oppo...
Celery Fields is a 400 acre site located in Sarasota, Florida. This county-owned birding hotspot hosts a large number of diverse bird species. The area consists of a variety of habitats; deep an...
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Squirrels and birds at sparrow slick during snowy February There was just one word for Backyard Big Year birding in February--COLD! OK, two words--cold and slow. Very few days got abov...
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Ring-billed Gulls at Wharton Point in Brunswick, ME 3-23-2014 When I first moved to Maine last February I knew I was in for some new and fun birding. While I had lived in Maine twice before,...
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MY WEEKLY POTPOURRI GATHERED FROM THE ARCHIVES FEATURES BLUEBIRDS AND MORE BLUEBIRDS! THIS TIME I AM SHARING IT ON BIRDING IS FUN AS WELL AS ATTEMPTING TO TIE TOGETHER SEVERAL INTERESTING MEMES, ...
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Savannah Sparrow If you like sparrows, Florida is a pretty good place to be in the winter. I can only think of four sparrows that breed here: Seaside Sparrow, Bachman's Sparrow, "Florida" ...
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In the Midwest, the month of February is typically frigid, cloudy and gray. As we shiver and shovel through the winter season, I offer these warbler images with hope that they will brighten your...
Hairy Woodpecker (female) Lisbon, ME 1-16-15 It's been a bit "hairy" around my house and I have not been able to post here for over two months. I am still healing from a dislocated shoulde...
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The lagoons of Semuc Champey Some birding treks can be rough on the body. After our comfortable stays in Antigua and near Tikal in Guatemala, we headed off to an unknown destination know...
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Hooded Merganser, male at J.N. Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel, FL recently. Hunting for fish, diving, surfacing, such interesting water colors and patterns. What a treat to pho...
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I've written here previously about the different "call types" of Evening Grosbeak, which correspond closely to subspecies and which may in fact even represent cryptic species. Recently I've be...
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CALL ME LAZY, BUT I LIKE TO FINISH MY MORNING BIRD WALK WITH A VISIT TO MY FAVORITE "SIT SPOT" JUST ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE 196TH AVENUE LEVEE, THAT RUNS ALONG THE CANAL ACROSS FROM OUR SUBDIVISI...
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So one month into my Backyard Big Year , and I'm at 48 birds for the year, including 33 photographed , and 21 sound recorded . After the first week of birding, it got pretty cold, with seve...
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PALM WARBLER Central Winds Park In Florida, we have the pleasure of being inundated by Palm Warblers throughout the Winter and Spring. You can almost always count on seeing them bobbing th...
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