After seeing the Burrowing Owl on Thursday night last week and talking to some other birders I realized that Friday was shaping up to...
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Any day that includes a sighting of a Red Knot is a good day for a birder. The bird we see in the northeastern...
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The Great Egret is a great bird. With a dagger attached to a head that has glaring eyes and distance from body as its...
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Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches, that people can’t help but like. They have awesome bills that slice through the...
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Until recently I had only ever seen a single Sandwich Tern. It was back in July of 2009, the day that I saw more...
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I could watch terns all day long. Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating. It just seems so improbable...
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As if Cory’s Shearwaters, a Brown Pelican, and Royal Terns weren’t enough, Seth, Dave, Bobby and I made our way out onto the mudflats...
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On Saturday, for the second weekend in a row, my plan to get on a boat and search for seabirds off the tip of...
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