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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...
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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...
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Autumn Views from the Tower

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North. South. East. West.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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