Red Sky at Morning

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The sky donned its Halloween costume at dawn this morning, dressing up as a huge serving of rainbow sherbet. While waiting to put Liam on th...

Midwest Birding Symposium Memories

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Whether or not you made the scene at the 2009 Midwest Birding Symposium, held in September in Lakeside, Ohio, you now have a chance to exper...

Autumn Views from the Tower

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North. South. East. West.

Opportunistic Anis

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Smooth-billed ani. Last July I was on a digiscoping trip to Trinidad & Tobago sponsored by Leica Sport Optics . On the second day of th...

Attention Digiscopers!

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Bird Watcher's Digest has partnered with Swarovski Optik for this year's "Digiscoper of the Year" competition . Swarovsk...

New Feeder Shots

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The new feeders I set up two weeks ago, outside the west kitchen window, are getting lots of traffic now. All the usual suspects are in the ...

Big Sit 2009 Afternoon/Evening Report

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As the day came on and the fog lifted, we began to tally lots more birds from the top of the Indigo Hill birding tower. The feeders got busi...

Big Sit 2009 Morning Report

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Looking like Bazooka Joe at the start of 2009 The Big Sit. Last year I blogged from the Indigo Hill birding tower throughout The Big Sit. T...

Plum Nice Birding

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Today I got a chance to go birding at a world famous spot in Massachusetts: Plum Island. This is the general name referring to the coastal h...

More Preparation to Sit

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That's our birding tower in the photo above. And that's me taking a newly assembled feeder tree over to the side yard to augment our...

Big Sit Meat Pile

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Every year, in anticipation of the Big Sit, I get all jiggy with my preparations. This involves spreading mixed seed around the weedy edges ...

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