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02/21/12--10:00: Night of the Bogsuckers (chan 2010920)

By the end of February, the American Woodcocks at Mason Farm near Chapel Hill have been calling on territory for the better part of two months.  It’s one of the many advantages to life south of the Mason-Dixon line, and I don’t know whether it’s the mild winters or the wintering birds forcing our residents [...]

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02/21/12--12:02: Great Green Heron on Birding is Fun! (chan 2010920)

Robert Mortensen got some great shots of my favorite bird, the Green Heron. Go check them out! a

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02/21/12--16:02: Birding Joe Overstreet Road and Lake Kissimmee (chan 2010920)

After our successful run through Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Doug and I were confident we could find some more of our target birds along Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs from Canoe Creek Road to Lake Kissimmee in Osceola, Florida, which is a bit south of Kissimmee and St. Cloud. Birds we [...]

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02/22/12--04:00: Cemetery Sentinels (chan 2010920)

There are certain families that I habitually fail to encounter when opportunities arise. I’ve had pretty lousy luck when it comes pittas and broadbills, and I also am really bad when it comes to the various night birds such as owls, nightjars and related species. It isn’t that I never see them, just that I [...]

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02/22/12--06:15: Snowy Owl Shot in Kansas (chan 2010920)

As bad as birders think photographers are and photographers think birders are neither is as bad as the jerk who took a pot shot at a Snowy Owl in Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, near Great Bend, Kansas. The bird was brought in to a veterinarian but it was too late and the owl died. a

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02/22/12--10:01: Slow-Mo Video of Red-cockaded Woodpecker Foraging (chan 2010920)

You may remember the awesome encounter Doug and I had with Red-cockaded Woodpeckers at the Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area from this post. If you are some kind of idiot savant you might even remember that the last image of a Red-cockaded Woodpecker that I shared was of the bird holding a grub in its bill. [...]

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02/22/12--16:04: Birding Kaliga Park, East Lake Toho (chan 2010920)

This is the final of three posts about the day I spent birding central Florida with Doug Gochfeld back in January at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. You can read the first one, about our time at Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, here, and the second, about birding Joe Overstreet Road and Kissimmee [...]

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02/22/12--22:02: Cutting Down Spotted Owl Habitat in British Columbia (chan 2010920)

This seems like a really bad idea. Unless, of course, the goal is to extirpate Spotted Owls in Canada. a

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02/23/12--04:00: After Some Merritt Island Specialties (chan 2010920)

Southern Florida offers many unique wintering birds, but perhaps none more so then the sparrows that call different parts of Florida their winter homes. Tom Dunkerton tipped me off to an area on the Black Merritt National Wildlife Refuge where some of my target birds can be seen. Tom spends most of his daylight hours [...]

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02/23/12--11:00: Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2012? (chan 2010920)

Now that the Great Backyard Bird Count has ended, reports are rolling in from the Rio Grande Valley to Nunavut (thanks, Clare!) I’m wondering about how participation in an extreme or prolonged bird watching event affects interest in further birding. This question isn’t just apropos to North American birders but really to anyone who engages [...]

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