Showing posts with label birding in West Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birding in West Virginia. Show all posts

NEW NORTH AMERICAN BIRD SPECIES DISCOVERED!

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The newly described Dun Mountain Warbler, Pseudoseiurus monochromis, as painted by bird artist Julie Zickefoose ! Dear BOTB Readers: I’ve b...

Thinking About My Bird of the Year 2011

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It's been an incredible year of bird watching. As I think back on some of the sweet birds I've seen—some of them lifers, some just o...

Walking the Catwalk!

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Among the tiny handful of birding events that I do every year is The New River Birding & Nature Festival in Fayette County, West Virg...

The 2011 Big Sit, Part II: Schlepping and Prepping

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Fog hugs the New River Gorge Bridge. Saturday, October 8 dawned cool and clear in southern West Virginia where I was scheduled to lead a bir...

Bee-Buzz Haiku

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Your wings are not blue While others sing more sweetly You just say "Beee-buzzzz!" * adult male blue-winged warbler digiscoped at ...

Why I Always Go Back to the New

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Briefly, because I know we all have better things to be doing, I wanted to share a couple of images with you showing why I come to the New R...

Zipline Birding in West Virginia

thumbnail Our group was put through our paces in ground school before we took the first zipline. What IS a zipline? A zipline, typically, is a set of ...

Wet Birds & Birders

thumbnail A (wet) male black-throated blue warbler on Sugar Creek Mountain. The rain came down on a regular basis from Tuesday evening through Sunday ...

Rainy Days of Birding

thumbnail A weather front followed me on my latest birding adventure. From Tuesday night through Sunday morning last week I was in West Virginia at Th...

New River Postings (or not)

thumbnail Worm-eating warbler, singing between episodes of eating worms. Gentle readers of Bill of the Birds. I am back at the New River Birding Festi...

Out There with the Birds

thumbnail When we get a life bird on one of my field trip, I will force you (nicely) to do The Life Bird Wiggle. I'll be attending, trip leading, ...

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