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Hawk Ridge: Minnesota’s Birds of Prey (Book Review)
Regional guides are invaluable assets to every birder’s library. For instance, if you plan to spend some time in Cape May, New Jersey, you would definitely want to have a copy of David Sibley’s “The Birds of Cape May”on hand; an annotated checklist with the status and distribution of all birds recorded at Cape May […]
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Introducing the NEW Kowa iPhone digiscoping adapter
If you have an iPhone 4 or 4s, the camera in your pocket just got a lot more awesome. Here’s my iPhone 4s mounted on a Swarovski HD spotting scope using the new Kowa TSN-IP4S adapter (yes, it works on a number of scopes/binoculars other than the intended Kowa variety, thanks Kowa!). The main thing […]
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Woodcreeper’s wild ride takes a detour
First of all I want to thank everyone who has made woodcreeper.com as successful as it has become; it is you who make up the 1000’s of daily visitors each spring and fall, and you who provide the feedback that let us all better understand what we’re seeing on the radar. What started in Spring […]
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Heavy migration into the Midwest; a good push up through the Northeast as well
National Overview No time to post right now, but wanted to get the word out that there was some moderate to heavy migration from the Central US all the way to the East Coast. Click on the individual radar thumbnails below for the animated loops. Below are the radar loops from sunset last night through […]
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Spring 2012 Early Wrapup
Here we are in late May and birds continue to push north to the breeding grounds while the earliest arrivals sit on eggs or even feed the recently hatched. We should still see migration on the NEXRAD radar network into early June, but expect things to slow down over the next week. On that note, […]