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Birds are coming…look busy!
National overview High pressure over the Great Lakes Region kept much from entering the Upper Midwest last night, but southerly flow pushing up from the Gulf region did bring a new flux of birds into the central part of the country. Expect these birds and more to make their way into our neck of the […]
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WE WON!
We did it! We won with 2013 BRRRRdathon and we raised over $2,000 dollars for conservation in the Sax-Zim Bog. Read all about it in my post on the EagleOpticsBlog:Â http://www.eagleopticsblog.com/2013/01/16/eagle-optics-badger-irruption-victory-in-the-bog/ Thanks to everyone who pledged to our team, and especially to Eagle Optics for supporting us on this mission. In the words of The Carpenters, […]
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Eagle Optics Badger Irruption – Brrrrdathon 2013
Have you ever been to the bog? Birders in the Upper Midwest have known about Sax-Zim Bog for a long time as one of the best boreal birding destinations within a short drive from Duluth, MN. Many birders around the country and world, some of us included, know about it since the big owl irruption in […]
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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 […]