Sep
14
Although some lucky individuals get interested in birding because someone else in their family is a birder, most people start watching birds on their own. The spark may have come in the form of noticing a kestrel as it hovered over a meadow, looking at field guides in the public library, or watching the birds …
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May
03
People from all walks of life get into birding, some are talking about it and few more often have it as an untalked about past time. When not looking for migrants in a local park, braving hordes of mosquitoes on salt marsh boardwalks, or discussing the fine points of raptor identification, birders are making a …
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Apr
26
As the winter wanes and the days get lighter, the songs of Red-winged Blackbirds and American Robins remind birders in the United States and Canada that Spring is just around the corner. Temperatures slowly rise, the snow melts away, and birdwatchers get excited with the knowledge that thousands and thousands of hawks, shorebirds, and brilliantly …
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Sep
26
I never cease to be surprised at how different some birds can look from their illustrations in my field guides. I’m not saying that the pictures aren’t accurate because most of the time I successfully use them to identify all sorts of birds espied through my binoculars. There are occasions, however, when I thumb through …
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