While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik), I had a couple of...
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Blue-gray Tanager is a bird reasonable to expect in the U.S. as a vagrant someday…they are common in many habitats in eastern Mexico. If...
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What is up with the birding community in the northern part of the US recently? Have we all gone completely mental? I recently heard...
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I have a really great spotting scope, an angled Swarovski 80mm HD scope with a 20 – 60 zoom eyepiece (and sometimes I alternate...
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Britain might have had new species to add to it’s list, then again maybe it didn’t. Not only seen by hundreds of observers, many...
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Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look...
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One of the things that has vexed me about my fellow bird watchers is the inability to read signs. Well, that’s not fair. It’s...
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Here we have a forlorn group of birders that clearly do not trust each other. Good December to you birders. I hope you are...
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