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Eye-poppin’ side-splitting blogging
My buddy Jeff has a new photo blog hosted by Birdwatcher’s Digest. Not only are his digiscoped images superb, but he’s one of the funniest guys I know. Check him out and read his humorous dispatches from the field and beyond.
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Maps to birding locations
A recent post on JerseyBirds by Sam Galick inspired me to create some birding location maps (see Sam’s original post here). While Google Maps is a great resource, the limitations are somewhat unfortunate. I found Map Builder to be considerably more flexible in terms of adding site-specific information and adding multiple locations. Here’s a link […]
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Rutgers Graduate’s Red Knot Expedition
Rutgers Graduate, Daniel Hernandez, has just returned from several weeks in Tierra Del Fuego, in Southern Chile. The expedition was to survey the Red Knot population that winters there and breeds in the Canadian Arctic. These are the same birds that migrate through New Jersey, stopping to feed on the horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware […]
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Whatcha lookin at buddy!?
Evening Grosbeak Originally uploaded by jpdavocet. Jonathan DeBalko, a PA birder on flickr, just posted a trip report from southern Ontario. Inga and I had taken a trip to Amherst Island two winters ago and it was quite an awesome time. See more photos from Jonathan’s trip here, and check out more from my past […]
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The Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus)
Originally uploaded by woodcreeper. This Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) is a member of the maritima subspecies, which breeds in the coastal tidal marshes of the northeastern US, from Massachusetts to Virginia. This one in particular was digiscoped at Jake’s Landing, in Cape May, New Jersey in May of 2006. This subspecies is migratory, and appears […]